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A disputes specialist believes that a planned international arbitration centre is overambitious and that Bermuda could instead become a hub for the hearings using modest office space. Mark Chudleigh, a partner at the law firm Kennedys, added that it ...

Construction will not start on a planned arbitration centre until analysis is completed to check if its operations will cover development costs, a government spokesman said. Ground was broken and a press conference held in Hamilton at the site of the...

A shadow minister has accused the Government of a lack of progress on its commitments after an international arbitration centre opened in the Cayman Islands while a similar facility in Bermuda has yet to get off the ground. Plans were announced in 20...

The commanding officers of British Overseas Territories’ military units from around the world have joined forces for the first time to create strength in numbers. A total of six military officers, coordinated by Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Beasley, t...

The Cayman Islands may keep an eye on Bermuda as they review a $6-an-hour minimum wage implemented in March 2016. The Cayman Compass is reporting broad support for a review of the six-year-old benchmark. Chris Saunders, the Deputy Premier concede...

Officers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment joined counterparts from the Caribbean and the UK for a course run on the island for the first time. RBR junior officers, with soldiers from the Cayman Islands Regiment, the Turks & Caicos Islands Regiment, Ar...

For too many years Bermudians have been fed with the narrative that we need to become more like the Cayman Islands, specifically with regard to work-permit and status issues. Realistically, it is hard to argue with things like budget surpluses and in...

Upcoming elections In our sister Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands, it will be having its General Election on April 14. On Nomination Day, Monday gone, there were 50 candidates vying for 19 seats. Of all the OTs, Cayman Islands has the di...

A group of reinsurance companies located in the Cayman Islands have formed a new industry group, the Cayman International Reinsurance Companies Association. According to its mission statement, Circa is “the industry group for commercial reinsurers lo...

European Union ambassadors have voted to put the Cayman Islands on the EU blacklist of jurisdictions deemed noncooperative on tax matters. The Financial Times reported this afternoon that the decision was based on the failure of the British Overseas ...

The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory situated about 180 miles northwest of Jamaica and some 1,300 miles southwest of Bermuda. It is made up of three islands: Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. The vast majority of its 68,000 p...

Dear Sir I very much enjoyed your editorial this morning (February 3, 2020) and think that it would be very helpful to our community if you could do one which would explain the competitive advantage of the Cayman Islands, in greater detail. The reaso...