A four-member delegation recently visited the Cayman Islands to learn how the sister territory facilitates business. “The team is focused on identifying best practices and transferable lessons that can support …
June 13, 2025
July 4, 2024
Beryl batters the Caribbean, setting record
Hurricane Beryl swept across the Caribbean this week as an unusually early Category Five storm, laying waste to several islands, causing at least nine reported deaths, and lending credence to …
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April 29, 2024
Girlguiding saved in overseas territories
On a recent Saturday morning at the West End Community Centre, about a dozen girls danced and sang karaoke while their peers coloured quietly or chatted. Sleeping bags, pillows and …
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December 3, 2020
Report blames VI for 3.81% of global tax loss
A recent report by the nonprofit Tax Justice Network alleged that the Virgin Islands is responsible for 3.81 percent of global tax losses amounting to $16.3 billion, a figure that …
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July 9, 2019
OT leaders unite against ‘modern colonialism’
Leaders from Britain’s overseas territories met in the Cayman Islands last week and pledged to work together to defend their right to self-government in the wake of perceived “constitutional overreach” …
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April 16, 2019
Cayman government to appeal same-sex marriage ruling
Cayman Islands Premier Alden Mclaughlin announced last week that his government plans to appeal the chief justice’s historic decision to legalise same-sex marriage on the grounds that the judge exceeded …
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April 5, 2019
Cayman legalises same-sex marriage
The Cayman Islands legalised same-sex marriage on Sunday, following a landmark Grand Court decision which ruled that preventing such unions violated the rights to a private and family life guaranteed …
February 21, 2019
Potential coalition would be first in 33 years
For the youngest voters in next week’s general election, a coalition government may be an unfamiliar concept. For their entire lives, Virgin Islands politics has been dominated by a two-party …
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