JetBlue Announces Returning Service from Fort Lauderdale to the Culinary Capital of the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Starting Winter 2025

Three-Times Weekly Service from Ft. Lauderdale (FLL) to Grand Cayman Begins 4 December 2025 The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism (CIDOT) is pleased to announce that JetBlue will resume year-round service from Ft. Lauderdale (FLL) to Owen...

Director indemnification in the Cayman Islands

‘An interested observer’ writes: A recent article on CNS argued that director indemnification should be banned in the Cayman Islands, claiming directors are “immune” from lawsuits and that other common law jurisdictions have abolished such...

Metrojet Gains AOC Approval For Cayman Islands

MetroJet, a business aviation provider based in Hong Kong, received Air Operator Certificate (AOC) approval by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands. The approval serves as the first step in the company’s plan to establish an...

Government Launches Cayman Islands Residential Property Price Index (RPPI)

The Lands and Survey Department (LSD), under the Ministry of Planning, Lands, Agriculture, Housing & Infrastructure (PLAHI), has launched the new Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) for the Cayman Islands. The launch took place on Thursday,...

United Kingdom Minister of State Visits the Cayman Islands Parliament

United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Europe, North America and the Overseas Territories in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Stephen Doughty, visited the Parliament on Monday, 22nd September, during his visit to the Cayman...

More than 37k work permits through low season

(CNS): Over this year’s summer season, the number of work permit holders in the Cayman Islands fell by several hundred when compared to the record-breaking figure at the start of 2025, though they are still high. According to the latest statistics...

Rutty: US gov’t shutdown unlikely to affect visitors

(CNS): Tourism Minister Gary Rutty has said he is not expecting the US federal government shutdown to cause any widespread disruption to air services or visitors to the Cayman Islands. Although in observance of the Yom Kippur holiday, American...

FSI Celebrates Record Graduation and Calls for More Scholarships

The Cayman Islands Financial Services Institute (FSI) hosted its second graduation ceremony this week, marking a milestone in the growth of its diploma programmes with a record attendance of 64 guests. A total of 21 students graduated, earning 24...

Secretive Cayman Island billionaire Kenneth Dart discloses €2bn stake in Flutter

Cayman Islands Shipping Registry Issues Harassment Guidance Note

Tanker Ship Captain and Pilothouse Photo, Istanbul Turkiye (Turkey) by Lauren Beck The Cayman Islands Shipping Registry (CISR) issued a Guidance Note on Harassment and Sexual Misconduct on Board Ships in September to raise awareness and explain...

Two of China Resources' units decamp from Cayman Islands to redomicile in Hong Kong

Two listed companies under China Resources Group are planning to redomicile from the Cayman Islands to Hong Kong, marking the first batch of listed companies to reincorporate in the city under a new law, with analysts believing the trend will...

Severance pay and outside speaker add $200k to budget

(CNS): A small appropriation to MPs and minsters during the recent Finance Committee meeting is not an indication of yet another pay rise for lawmakers. The appropriation of just under CI$437,000 relates to severance pay given to seven MPs who...

Cambodia Approves $7.8 Billion in Investment Projects in First Nine Months of 2025

An aerial view shows the city skyline with high-rise buildings in Phnom Penh on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Suy SE / AFP) PHNOM PENH-- Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2025, a...

Mourant Expands Middle East Footprint

The firm said it has built out its international presence in recent years, for example bolstering its Luxembourg operation and opening a new office Singapore in 2023. Mourant, a law firm-led professional services business, is expanding its...

FIU-IND Serves Notices To 25 Offshore Crypto Platforms For PMLA Violation

The Financial Intelligence Unit of India (FIU-IND) has issued compliance notices to 25 offshore Virtual Digital Asset (VDA) service providers for violating provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The action comes under...

Pakistan a banana republic with nuclear bomb, Munir a Jihadi: Vikram Sood

New Delhi: Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Vikram Sood called Pakistan a banana republic and referred to their Army Chief as a “Jihadi General”. In an interview with ANI, Vikram Sood said that the Pakistani Army comprises ideological...

Sun, sea and trash: The Caribbean islands struggling with managing waste -In the Cayman Islands, its landfill continues to grow

By Gemma Handy From BBC (Credit: Getty Images) Tourism is vital for economies across the Caribbean, but record-breaking numbers of visitors, coupled with insufficient local waste facilities, are leaving many islands choking on rubbish. The smell...

Cayman Islands Bankers’ Association upgrades its Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network

The ACH network’s participant banks have announced that effective October 1 2025 the daily cut off time for domestic payments, or “EFT” payments will be extended by 1 hour at each bank, allowing such transactions to be submitted to the receiving...

Ex-RAW chief calls Pak’s Munir a jihadi

Run-through Previous RAW chief Vikram Sood criticised Pakistan, calling it a banana republic and its Army Chief a Jihadi General. Sood likewise talked about the Asia Cup prize occurrence. He highlighted the Balochistan motion, now including the...

Cayman Islands deny asylum to Cuban who reports harassment in Cuba for being a tattoo artist

Cuban tattoo artist Miguel Benítez Miraba From CIBERCUBA A Cuban tattoo artist, identified as Miguel Benítez Mirabal, claims that in Cuba his profession makes him a “subversive” and exposes him to harassment and repression. The 36-year-old man,...