Topic: Utilities Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg)

Telecoms firm Digicel has asked the Cayman industry regulator to refund about $1.6 million in fees after a court earlier ruled the watchdog had acted illegally when it demanded broadband firm C3 to stump up unpaid licence charges

Uncertainty remains over the extent to which Consumer Owned Renewable Energy (CORE) will play in Cayman’s National Energy Policy’s 2030 target, which calls for 70 percent of the country’s power to be provided through renewable energy.

Following its public consultation on the Consumer Protection Regulations for the energy and water utilities sector launched earlier this month, the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg) is now seeking final public input for the same type of regulations in the fuels sector.

J. Paul Morgan, the former chief executive officer of the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg), has died.

From the port boss who receives just $150 per meeting to the utilities director who is paid more than $50,000-a-year, an auditor general’s investigation found vast disparity in the pay handed out to the men and women appointed to the boards of some of the Cayman Islands’ most important institutions.

Consolidated Water’s quarterly report stated that its subsidiary, Cayman Water, still has not reached a licensing deal with government to serve customers in the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas.