First sitting of the 2023/24 Session ~ Commencing September 19, 2023 Private Member’s Motions Motion on: Supporting Caymanians into Full-Time Employment WHEREAS the National Community Enhancement Project (NICE) has operated for several years, providing short periods of paid employment for Caymanians and spouses of Caymanians. AND WHEREAS the Fall 2022 Labour Force Survey...
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First sitting of the 2023/24 Session ~ Commencing September 19, 2023 Parliamentary Questions MP Joey Hew (Deputy Leader Of The Opposition) Constituency: George Town North To Ask: The Hon. Minister for Planning, Agriculture, Housing, & Infrastructure (Hon Johany “Jay” Ebanks – Elected Member For North Side) “Can the Hon Minister state when the Deloitte...
May 15th, 2023 The Hon Roy McTaggart, Leader of The Opposition & MP for George Town East, and Sir Alden McLaughlin, MP for Red Bay, will be hosting a public meeting regarding the National Roads Authority’s proposed closure of the right exit onto the Grand Harbour roundabout to traffic wanting to proceed to South...
Madam Speaker, For the benefit of those who might be listening or watching that it is useful to point out that the Opposition only saw the Premier’s Strategic Policy Statement this morning, and there is little I can speak to in his Strategic Policy Statement at this stage. But Madam Speaker, I listened keenly to...
March 7, 2023 We agree with Premier Panton that the arrest of MP McKeeva Bush on charges of Indecent Assault is a most serious and concerning matter. We agree also that we can rely on our courts and system of justice to resolve the matter. Where we disagree with Premier Panton is in his...
October 28th, 2022 Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VvTqusArqE An article on the Cayman News Service blog site had a headline stating that a recent report by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) “finds pre-election abuse of public cash” with work carried out by the National Roads Authority (NRA). In fact, the OAG report did...
October 13th, 2022 On Monday, October 10th, 2022 Premier Panton finally provided the Parliament and the country with an update on what was once called the Integrated Solid Waste Management System, now known as the ReGen Project. ReGen is the Project to cap and ultimately close the George Town Landfill and to replace it with...
September 30th, 2022 The Leader of the Opposition, Hon Roy McTaggart, advises the following: “I have today filed in Parliament a motion of ‘Lack of Confidence in the Speaker, the Hon. McKeeva Bush OBE, JP’. The motion is seconded by Ms Barbara Conolly, MP for George Town South, and supported by the entire Opposition....
September 23rd, 2022 My fellow Caymanians and Residents. Everyone should now be aware, that the Government has issued a Hurricane Alert for the Cayman Islands. By now, we should be preparing for the likely approach of a Hurricane on Sunday night and through the day on Monday. If you haven’t already done so, get...
May 2, 2023 Last week, the Ministry of Education released its annual data report, covering the results achieved by Cayman’s public schools in the 2021-22 academic year. There are a number of issues raised by the report that I will be addressing in coming weeks but there is one immediate concern that I need to...
