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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
A public meeting about a proposal to extend the runway of Grand Cayman’s Owen Roberts International Airport addressed questions and concerns surrounding the $28 million project.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
The family of Dr. Amber Martinez, who was killed in 2022 by her car’s faulty airbag, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Honda, claiming the vehicle manufacturer did not do enough to recall the affected cars in the Cayman Islands. A wide range of models of Honda and other manufacturers’ cars fitted with airbags made by the now defunct Takata Corporation has been subject to an international recall for several years.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
The Central Planning Authority has approved an application to extend the apron at the Owen Roberts International Airport in preparation for the development of a terminal for private aircraft. AMR Consulting Engineers has been granted permission to expand the apron by 682,127 square feet, as part of the work relating to the construction of a new $42 million general aviation terminal for private jets at the airport.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
The Cayman Islands Airports Authority is planning to build runway safety areas at either end of the runway at the Charles Kirkconnell International Airport on Cayman Brac. The proposed work is part of an Airports Master Plan that explores the development of all three of Cayman’s airports in the coming years and is subject to an environmental impact assessment.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
Officials will be taking their proposal to relocate the airport on Little Cayman to the island’s residents this week as part of a public consultation on the potential environmental impact of the project. If the plan goes ahead, the Edward Bodden Airfield by Blossom Village would be closed and a new airport opened on government-owned land by the Booby Pond Nature Reserve and Rookery. Residents of Little Cayman are being invited to attend a public meeting on the issue on Thursday night.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
Founder of Wings of Hope Lupus Support Group, Reshma Ragoonath, is having a busy month. Not only is she organising the group’s third annual Wings of Hope community event this week, but she’s been featured widely in her home country of Trinidad recently, as well as by the Lupus Foundation of America, for her brave struggles with the disease and her efforts to raise awareness about it.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has deployed eight of its officers to Anguilla to help police on that island with gang violence. Six firearm officers, a police inspector who is a tactical firearms commander, and a drone operator will be spending a month in Anguilla to bolster the work of the Royal Anguilla Police Force in tackling an escalation of serious crime on the island. There has been a rise in shootings on the island recently.
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1 week ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
Leading immigration lawyer Nick Joseph, of Reside Cayman, has welcomed plans to introduce term limits for expat civil servants, but says they don’t go far enough. The government last week announced that, from 1 Jan. next year, it would be make non-Caymanian civil service employees subject to similar immigration rules as those that apply to work permit holders.
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2 weeks ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
Expatriate civil servants will face term limits from 1 Jan. next year, after Cabinet this week approved moving ahead with amending immigration legislation. Under current regulations, non-Caymanians in the civil service are not bound by the same immigration rules that apply to expats in the private sector, which requires them to leave Cayman after nine years or seek permanent residency status, under the so-called ‘rollover’ policy.
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2 weeks ago | 
caymancompass.com | Norma Connolly
A planning application for a $15 million apartment complex in West Bay has been referred to the National Conservation Council for consideration. The application from NCB Group came before the Central Planning Authority at its 29 April meeting. The minutes from that meeting, which were released recently, indicate that due to potential adverse impacts on the environment, the authority decided to refer the application for the three-building complex to the National Conservation Council.
