2026 New Year Message from Her Excellency Governor Jane Owen
Hello everyone.
I wanted to take this opportunity, as we stand on the threshold of the year 2026, to wish you and your loved ones all a very, very happy New Year.
Hello everyone.
I wanted to take this opportunity, as we stand on the threshold of the year 2026, to wish you and your loved ones all a very, very happy New Year.
For Cayman, 2025 was more than ‘just another year’. In fact, judging from the issues that arose and which we covered over the past 12 months, Caymanian Times can say with a great degree of certainty that 2025 was definitely ‘one of those years’.
The Cayman Islands Customs & Border Control Service (CBC) is reminding importers, brokers, dealers, and members of the public of the existing prohibition on the importation of vehicles eight years or older into the Cayman Islands.
The national carrier of the Cayman Islands, Cayman Airways, celebrated 40 years of direct service to Tampa, Florida at the Tampa International Airport on 15th December.
On Friday, 12 December 2025, Parliament passed the Immigration (Transition) (Amendment & Validation) Bill, which has now been Gazetted as the Immigration (Transition) (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2025.
The Ministry of Caymanian Employment and Immigration (MCEI) advises the public that the Labour (National Minimum Basic Wage) (Amendment) Order, 2025, which establishes the new national minimum wage, has been published.
In what was arguably one of the fastest government formations in recent political history, Cayman’s newest government coalition was assembled within a day of the April 30th general election.
As Cayman settles into the reality of a new government era, the pressure is on the National Coalition for Caymanians(NCFC) administration to hit the ground running.
Just days after being hammered by the ferocious onslaught of historic and deadly Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica is pledging not just to build back, but to build back better.
An interesting trend has emerged in Caribbean elections this year.