Topic: Tara Rivers
Business in brief
A roundup of the week's business briefs.
Anyone home in the House?
Of more interest to us than the 13 lawmakers who chose sides in the debate were the five members who were conspicuously absent from the vote.
'One man, one vote' divides coalition gov't
A wild finish to the 'one man, one vote' debate shows up a few splits in the coalition government.
Premier: Legislative Assembly may get extra member
Will the number of Legislative Assembly members soon grow to 19?
Gov’t rejects minimum wage motion
A legislative proposal asking the ruling Progressives government to accept a $5 per hour minimum wage was defeated Wednesday.
Bad call on LIME deal?
Cayman's private sector cannot operate the way government does.
Ericsson 'must hire' Caymanians
Global communications giant Ericsson “must hire Caymanians” or face having its license to operate in the Cayman Islands pulled, government has insisted.
Tourism jobs drive struggles to make impact
Only 12 people found jobs through a tourism employment drive that targeted more than 180 out-of-work Caymanians who said they wanted to work in the hospitality or tourism field.
Education chiefs to visit London
Education Minister Tara Rivers will visit high performing independent schools in the United Kingdom this week as part of a review of Cayman's public schools.
2013 Cayman news roundup
As 2014 draws to a close, the Compass reviews some of the key events and news stories of the Cayman Islands over the past 12 months.
Equality enforcers deal with first complaints
Cayman’s gender equality enforcement unit received three discrimination complaints in its first year, including one from a woman who was sacked two weeks after telling her employer she was pregnant.
C4C: Put conservation bill on hold
The Coalition for Cayman has called on legislators to put the National Conservation Bill on hold – a position that directly contradicts the stated support for the bill from all three independent legislators who won election with the group’s backing.
Five spellers prove word perfect
Five primary school pubils have set a new record for the highest number of winners in one spell-off competition.
Graduates ready to work
The latest graduates of government’s job readiness program for school leavers, young men and single moms, are ready for the workplace after completing the 12-week course.
Freshmen lawmakers declare financial interests
Cayman's eight new lawmakers reveal their financial interests.
Hedge Funds Care: A grand gala for a most-worthy cause
In one of Grand Cayman’s most anticipated fundraising events, hundreds of Cayman’s most generous paid $1,000 each to attend a gala affair Saturday evening at the Ritz-Carlton to benefit Hedge Funds Care.
Court rejects challenge to Rivers’s eligibility
The Court of Appeal late Friday denied a petition to overturn the Grand Court’s August vindication of government Minister and West Bay MLA Tara Rivers, ending long-standing uncertainty about her election six months ago.
Appeals court sets two dates for Rivers hearing
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday split into two phases the constitutional challenge to the summertime decision of the Chief Justice to vindicate the election of West Bay MLA and government Minister Tara Rivers.
Business in brief
Business in brief.
Deep political divides on immigration bill
Fundamental changes to Cayman's immigration policies are approved in a split vote by lawmakers.
Locals share experiences at gender abuse march
BPW Silent Witness March supprt and honor those who have suffered as a result of dometic violence and bullying
Annual Silent Witness March scheduled for Friday
The annual Silent Witness march takes place on Friday, Oct. 18, at 5:30 p.m. from the Government Administration Building to Celebration Square.
Walking for recovery
The second Walk for Recovery has raised funds for half-way homes for recovering drug and alcohol addicts.
Editorial: Pension theft: The cruelest of crimes
With more than 1,000 local businesses identified as delinquent in paying their share of employee pensions (with many apparently pocketing their employees’ contributions as well), Labour and Pensions Office Director Mario Ebanks is now threatening to “name and shame” some of the miscreants.
Accounting society welcomes new colleagues with gala affair
CISPA celebrated the achievements of new certified Caymanian professionals and recent accounting graduates.
Full-scale pensions review due by 2016
Some changes to the private sector pension system will be made this year, but a full review won't be done until 2016.
Rivers case heading to appellate court next month
The Court of Appeal will hear on 15 Nov. a constitutional challemnge to August's Tara Rivers verdict, scheduling a half-day session for the case as part of the final three-week, three-judge gathering for 2013.
Bush: Premier ‘hypocritical’ on travel
A war of words between Cayman's premiers, past and present, over government-sponsored travel.
Editorial for September 20: Baraud takes action
We lend our full support to Baraud's new back-to-work initiative.
Recruiters launch back-to-work program
Baraud is partnering with government to provide employment opportunities to 20 Caymanians, as a start.
Students get new dictionaries from Rotary Sunrise
All seven grade students in government and private schools have received Usborne Illustrated dictionaries from Rotary Sunrise LIFE program.
Online poll Many want to move on from Rivers episode
Apparently, the people of the Cayman Islands are largely fed up with the saga of West Bay MLA and Minister for Education Tara Rivers, voting to move on with the news.
Editorial for September 12: And then, along came Tara …
Just more than 100 days ago, Premier Alden McLaughlin took on the new responsibilities of his high office with dignity, decorum, and a deftness of touch that befits all successful leaders, including politicians.
Minister Rivers defends South Africa trip, assails local media
Education Minister Tara Rivers defended herself on Tuesday against charges of wasteful spending and unnecessary travel at last week’s South Africa’s Commonwealth Conference, saying the gathering had boosted her insight into local issues.
School lockout over teacher shortage
Protesters padlocked the gates of East End Primary School and left a note at the scene demanding a new fifth grade teacher as frustrations over staffing boiled over.
School padlock sends a message
Students and parents at East End Primary School on Grand Cayman arrived
for classes Tuesday to find that the gates to the school had been
padlocked.
Editorial for September 6: 'Tara-ble' judgment
Let us begin by stating what this editorial is NOT about.
Rivers South Africa trip shrouded in silence
Few answers are forthcoming from government on Tara Rivers' trip to South Africa.
Editorial for September 2: Peering into Cayman’s ‘national mirror’
We revisit on this page, with reluctance, the issues of crime, disorder, and growing incivility in these islands and a (perhaps generational) disregard for the law and disrespect for authority.
Online Poll: Record support for sex education
It may be the most lopsided vote ever recorded in eight years of unofficial polling by the Caymanian Compass: Almost four-fifths of our respondents this week voted in support of schoolroom sex education.
For Cayman, an educational opportunity of epic importance
It started as a tremor many years ago but now is progressing to seismic strength on the education Richter scale. Some professors are already constructing protective bunkers in their comfortable academies of higher learning to fight it.
PAC chairman offers to resign
Public Accounts Committee Chairman Roy McTaggart has offered to resign his seat on the oversight panel as soon as the five-member group and the auditor general scrutinize the ruling People’s Progressive Movement’s government programs.
Students achieve record-breaking exam results
Cayman Islands students achieved record-breaking pass rates, including big improvements in English and mathematics, at the end-of secondary school exams.
Rivers case faces legal, cost hurdles
A special sitting of the Court of Appeal may be necessary to hear a petition seeking to overturn the Grand Court's early-August vindication of the election of West Bay MLA Tara Rivers.
Editorial on August 26: On appealing the Rivers ruling
Like many others, we at the Compass were somewhat surprised at Chief Justice Anthony Smellie’s judgment regarding Tara Rivers’s eligibility to stand for office in the district of West Bay. Frankly, the “office pool” was betting that Justice Smellie would rule differently and, ultimately, order a by-election in the district.
Lawyers ask Court of Appeal to overturn Tara Rivers decision
Lawyers for John Gordon Hewitt on Friday asked the Court of Appeal to overturn Chief Justice Anthony Smellie’s 9 August decision vacating election challenges to West Bay MLA and Cabinet Minister Tara Rivers.
Temporary government ministers to step up
For the first time under Cayman's new constitution, the government will swear in temporary Cabinet ministers.
Prison break exposes security flaws
Police urged Grand Cayman residents Friday morning to check boats and outbuildings as the search for three escaped prisoners continued.
Teen launches school sex ed campaign
A 17-year-old girl is campaigning for sex education to become part of the curriculum in the Cayman Islands.
Progressives deliver policy update with first meeting since election
In its first public meeting since the 22 May elections, the ruling People's Progressive Movement on Saturday told an audience that exciting times were in prospect, the economy was improving and changes were on the way.
Anger building on election irregularities
Resentment at elections officials and the Attorney General continues to build among former candidates in Cayman’s springtime elections, frustrated by arbitrary opinions that disqualified some and forced others to renounce rightful citizenship.
Disqualified candidate vows action in wake of Grand Court decision
Disqualifed for 22 May national polls by the Attorney General, disappointed Bodden Town candidate Richard Christian is vowing legal action after Friday's Grand Court decision allowing electoral competitotrs to hold foreign passports.
Court: Rivers may keep seat
Chief Justice Anthony Smellie on Friday absolved West Bay MLA and Minister for Education Tara Rivers of challenges to her eligibility for elected office, declaring her resident in two places and approving her US passport.
Editorial for 9 August: Chief justice’s ruling: Critical to Cayman
The upcoming ruling in the Tara Rivers election challenge is a landmark legal decision for Cayman.
Candidates, officials look to by-election
This afternoon’s decision by Chief Justice Anthony Smellie regarding the eligibility of West Bay MLA and Cabinet minister Tara Rivers to serve elected government may trigger a district by-election in as little as six weeks.
Chief Justice: Tara Rivers is qualified for office
Education and Employment Minister Tara Rivers was judged qualified to
stand for elected office, according to a ruling handed down by Cayman’s
chief justice Friday afternoon.
Rivers decision due on Friday
Chief Justice Anthony Smellie announced Monday afternoon that he would deliver his judgement in the Tara Rivers election case on Friday.
Rivers election case decided this week
The final judgment in the election challenge involving Minister Tara Rivers is due out Friday.
Minister visits her departments
Minister for Education, Employment and Gender Affairs Tara Rivers has been visiting education services staff.
Passports and elections
There is a question being raised in the Cayman Islands Grand Court involving the eligibility of Cabinet Minister Tara Rivers to hold elected office that many Caymanians of the younger generation should pay attention to, particularly if they have any designs on standing for election themselves.
Rivers court closes, verdict pending
Attorneys offered final arguments in the Grand Court on Friday afternoon, addressing Chief Justce Anthony Smellie regarding the qualifications of Tara Rivers both to contest elections and serve as MLA and Minister.
Courthouse runs over capacity
Three Summary Courts, three Grand Courts and the Court of Appeal were all in session on Wednesday, occupying every availalble courtroom plus the Town Hall.
Minister had UK work permit
The Cayman Islands Grand Court heard prolonged cross-examination of Education Minister Tara Rivers, questioning her claims to be a local resident and overseas student.
Rivers case closes, verdict to come
The political fate of Minister Tara Rivers is now in the hands of Cayman's chief justice.
‘Cayman Islands, My home’
The court hearing into the Tara Rivers election petition case began Wednesday morning.
Chief justice to hear election petition
Cayman's top judge will sort out the Tara Rivers election challenge.
Constitutional silk on minister’s legal team
Cayman's former constitutional expert may end up arguing against his own work in the Tara Rivers election case.
Cabinet minister visits West Bay primary school
Cayman Islands Education Minister Tara Rivers visited Sir John A. Cumber Primary School recently to learn more about its unique Primary Years Programme, which is part of the West Bay facility’s authorised partnership as an International Baccalaureate world school.
Community hit right goals again
The importance of developing youth football in the Cayman Islands has become the sport’s priority in recent years and an annual competition ran last week reinforced how much the youngsters have improved recently.
Rivers election challenge in court
Justice Alexander Henderson confirmed 17-18 July as the trial dates for the election petition challenging Tara Rivers' nomination and election to a Legislative Assembly seat for West Bay.
Online poll: Tara Rivers sentiment split
The public response to the courtroom dilemma of Tara Rivers indicates mixed sentiment as voters divide almost evenly in support of her election, flawed or not, and the offficial challenge to that victory.
Hit the jackpot at Blue Jack Night
UWC are hosting their annual Blue Jack Night, Saturday, 13 July
