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Compliance with Register of Interests 'abysmal'

CSPL Chair Woody Foster on Radio Cayman (CNS): Commission for Standards in Public Life (CSPL) Chairperson Woody Foster has said that only about 80% of the more than 1,300 public officials who should be signing the Register of Interests are complying with the legal requirement to do so. The officials must, by law, declare their interests to show the public where they may have conflicts. (more…)

Compliance with Register of Interests 'abysmal'

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Governor fills empty commission seats

Governor fills empty commission seats

Dale Crowley

(CNS): Governor Martyn Roper has announced several new appointments and reappointments to important constitutional commissions. After six months without a chairman, lawyer Dale Crowley has been appointed to head the Human Rights Commission for a three year term. He joins existing members Reverend Yvette Noble-Bloomfield, Joni Kirkconnell and Dorothy Scott.

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Email mix-up kept opposition from conference

Email mix-up kept opposition from conference

(CNS): Opposition MLAs missed the anti-corruption seminar this week because the invitations were sent to the wrong email addresses, though this does not explain why all of the members from the government benches failed to show up. Commissions Secretariat Manager Deborah Bodden said that the gov.ky emails were used for the invitations for all 19 members as they were unaware that the opposition…

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Braille and audio constitutions unveiled

Lise Hurlstone, of the Commissions Secretariat, with Janilee Clifford, who is listening to her reading of section 109 of the Constitution (CNS Local Life): The Constitutional Commission, together with the Human Rights Commission (HRC), recently launched audio and braille formats of the Cayman Islands Constitution for people with literacy or sight impairments. The project came about when a member…

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Constitution should have a braille version

Constitution should have a braille version

I read that the Constitutional Commission and the Human Rights Commission are working on producing an audio version of the Cayman Islands Constitution for people who have vision problems (See Audio of Constitution for visually impaired ‘soon come’). Is there also a copy of that or any of our other important documents in braille, which would make them accessible to people who are both blind and…

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