Following a year which has seen members of first response agencies continuously tested to extraordinarily levels, fire officers from the Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) were recognised in an appreciation reception on Thursday, 12 November.
Thursday December 3rd 2020 will herald a new dawn for Cayman. It will be the first part of a dual historic occasion for the jurisdiction as that date will see The Cayman Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2020 come into effect.
Upholding high ethical standards plays a critical role in ensuring that the conduct of public officials in the Cayman Islands meets the expectations of the people in the Cayman Islands, as well as complies with and balances our constitutional rights such as non-discrimination....
The Ministry of Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure has partnered with Cycle Cayman to pro-vide five bicycles for use by civil servants as part of a free 3 month trial BikeShare programme, which will run November 1 to January 31.
The Cayman Islands’ energy conference, the Caribbean Transitional Energy Conference (CTEC 2020) is set to take place virtually on 19th November 2020 and this year boasts an impressive line-up of guest speakers....
The Ministry of District Administration, Tourism and Transport will reopen a fourth registration period for the stipend programme aimed at assisting Caymanians who worked in the tourism sector and have been displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted our tourism industry.
Solar energy is not the only renewable energy source that we can utilise. The Integrated Solid Waste Management Project that is being progressed by the government will generate electricity from incoming solid waste and landfill gases from the George Town landfill site once it has been capped....
Spending necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the government’s budget deep into the red for this financial year.
I will make a separate statement on the COVID-19 position during this meeting, Mr. Speaker, but, for now, suffice it to say that the Government recognises that we must get the tourism sector moving again but we will do so in a way that does not jeopardise the hard-won position we now have achieved.
Mr. Speaker, my statement today takes the form of a State of the Nation address. These occasions are usually an opportunity to place on the record Government’s achievements and its plans for the year ahead. For those of you looking forward to that, I hope not to disappoint.