Topic: Ritch & Conolly

Businesses at the port are concerned for their future after being turned down in their efforts to secure a “first refusal” agreement for space in the proposed new cruise terminal.

An immigration consultancy report, penned at a cost of $312,000 and kept from public view, put the government Ministry of Home Affairs over budget during the year it was commissioned, according to an evaluation done by Cayman’s auditor general.

There are no plans to release a $312,000 consultant’s report that reviewed numerous legal problems with Cayman’s system of granting permanent residence to non-Caymanians, even though the government restarted hearing those residency applications.

If re-elected, Premier Alden McLaughlin said, his Progressives government in its first year will make more “significant” changes again to the system that awards permanent residence to non-Caymanians.

When the Progressives passed their Immigration Law in fall 2013, they handed the Cayman Islands a ticking time bomb of uncertainty and legal liability.

Cayman Islands Premier Alden McLaughlin, citing a never-before-used section of the Freedom of Information Law.

Cayman Islands Cabinet Secretary Samuel Rose has been ordered to turn over an immigration consultant’s report to the information commissioner’s office, after the government initially denied the information commissioner access to the report. The consultant’s report is the subject of an open records request filed by the Cayman Compass.

The Cayman Islands government issued six checks totaling $312,470 for a consultant’s review of a 2015 Grand Court judgment that questioned the islands’ permanent residence approval and appeals process.

Cayman Islands-based Five Continents Group has appointed a new partner to its new corporate governance arm – Five Continents Partners Ltd.