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Plan to tackle expected sargassum influx still elusive
Sargassum along the shoreline, June 2025 (from social media) (CNS): The University of South Florida is forecasting that there will be even more sargassum than in previous years in the western Caribbean Sea, which means the Cayman Islands can expect to see much of this seaweed around our shores this summer. The growing problem of huge patches of sargassum floating in the Atlantic and Caribbean,…
MP says minister lacks empathy re cost of helpers
. (CNS): The increase last January in the National Minimum Wage from CI$6 per hour to $8.75 is making it impossible for Caymanian families on low pay to afford to keep their domestic helpers, according to Independent opposition MP Dwayne Semour, who has accused Michael Myles, the minister responsible for labour, of lacking empathy. Continue reading MP says minister lacks empathy re cost…
Joey still claims new CIG 'not the will of the people'
Opposition Leader Joey Hew addresses parliament on Wednesday (CNS): In a short address to parliament on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Joey Hew said it wasn’t the will of the people but negotiations that had once again led to the formation of a new Cayman Islands Government. However, the number of people who voted for the party members and independents now seated on the government benches is…
Bodden misses chance to score against minister's legacy
Bodden Town East candidates Robert Bodden (left) and Dwayne Seymour (CNS): At the Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum for Bodden Town East on Friday, Robert Bodden (TCCP) failed to seize the opportunity to remind voters of the incumbent’s poor legacy in office as a minister and the representative for Bodden Town East over the last two terms. Dwayne Seymour bragged that he’d been a minister every…
Ministry plants 710 trees as 100s more lost to development
National Tree Planting ProgrammeNational Tree Planting ProgrammeNational Tree Planting ProgrammeNational Tree Planting Programme (CNS): The sustainability ministry has planted 710 native and endemic trees on the grounds of government primary schools and public spaces across the islands since the National Tree Planting Programme started three years ago. But over the same period, hundreds more…
UPM accepts motion to regulate real estate agents
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government accepted a private member’s motion last week to regulate and limit the number of non-Caymanians who can be licensed as real estate agents. The motion was brought by Bernie Bush and supported by Chris Saunders. Putting his case for the motion to his colleagues, Bush said there were some significant concerns about the sector, and allegations of inappropriate…
Poinciana could be adapted to house criminally insane
Poinciana Rehabilitation Centre (photo credit: CIG) (CNS): The government is considering how it can adapt the recently opened Poinciana Rehabilitation Centre to house the criminally insane. The centre was not designed to detain individuals who are a danger to society because of their illness. But with nowhere else to house people found not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity other…
Revised immigration law must be 'grounded in realities'
Minister Dwayne Seymour addresses parliament on Monday (photo credit: CIG) (CNS): The public consultation on the draft discussion paper outlining the changes the UPM minority administration wants to make to the current immigration law is open. However, the document is already being criticised for its significant inadequacies and the obvious problems some of the proposed changes will create…
