Cayman Islands

You know, when I went on my cruise, I think it was seven days, had a wonderful time.

We went to the Cayman Islands.

We went to the Bahamas.

We went to Key West, I think.

And again, this is not a new functioning body.

When you think about other Caribbean countries like BVI, Cayman, Bahamas has a public health authority.

You realize that they have taken this approach because it allows them to do more.

It doesn't bog them down with so much of the technical side of things.

The couple met in the world of politics while she fought for her parents' prison release.

Jason proposed in the Cayman Islands last December, and the pregnancy, well, it was a surprise of its own.

Savannah says she found out on a yacht after champagne started tasting like peanuts.

Imagine that.

The call is out for partners as the Health Services Authority plans a new four-bed adolescent inpatient mental health unit.

Radio Cayman's Carsley Fuller has more.

According to a request for proposals posted on government's Bonfire Hub procurement website, the HSA is experiencing a, quote, sustained increase in demand for specialized adolescent mental health services, driven by both local population trends and the growing prevalence of mental health disorders among children and young people.

In recent years, adolescent psychiatric admissions have risen significantly, placing considerable pressure on existing inpatient mental health resources.

HSA CEO Lizette Yearwood tells Radio Cayman the current service model often requires adolescents to be admitted to facilities primarily designated for adults or during periods of high demand to alternate inpatient wards that don't provide the specialized therapeutic environment needed to manage complex mental health conditions.

While these arrangements help address immediate capacity challenges, she says they're not aligned with best practice standards for teen mental health.

To better meet current and future demand, the HSA wants to enhance its inpatient mental health services by providing a safe, age-appropriate and patient-centered environment that supports adolescents' unique clinical, developmental and emotional needs.

To facilitate the construction of the new unit, the pediatrics department will also be temporarily relocated off-site.

With a look at Radio Cayman's local sports, I'm Dionne Anglin.

The Cayman Islands Cricket Umpires Association will host a three-day WICUA and CICUA Cricket Umpires Development Training Workshop on November 13th, 14th and 15th.

Livingston Bailey, president of the Umpires Association, tells Radio Cayman Sports the program is designed to build skills, improve confidence and raise standards among local umpires with practical on-field sessions and role-play scenarios led by WICUA's chairman of training.

I see you guys are having a three-day workshop, 13th, 14th and

So it's about having more confidence in their ability to manage the game, manage players and manage incidents during the game.

And pretty much just to be stronger umpires, to be better umpires for the game of cricket.

So we would have stronger cricket within the Cayman Islands.

Does this also mean that when they do pass this course, they will be able to umpire international games as well?

Carsley Fuller.

You can find the full meeting summary online at planning.ky. Young people across the Cayman Islands are raising their voices.

Mark DeLisa there, working with the students at Lehman Scott High School on Cayman Brac on Tuesday as part of this week's National Youth Choral Festival.

He's been touring schools all week, which will wrap up with the inaugural National Youth Choral Festival final concert on Friday at the Cayman Islands Baptist Church at 4 p.m. And residents across Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac will have several chances this week to learn about and comment on the proposed National Cancer Registry.

The Ministry of Health, Environment and Sustainability is hosting district meetings as part of its public consultation on the registry discussion white paper alongside the Hearts District Days program.

At each session, residents can hear about the proposed registry, the Public Health Bill 2026 and the Environmental Health Bill 2026, all now open for public feedback.

Like, obviously, we know the famous like Swiss banks and why people hide money there.

We know about people hide money in Cyprus or in the Cayman Islands and some of these other advantageous places.

It's because they have the cover of like, for lack of a better way of putting it, not a perfect way to put it, but like their own diplomatic

rights, if you will.

Anybody the insurance industry doesn't like has kind of been forced to set up a captive to self-insure part of their own risk.

But the key, you know, it used to be you'd go to Bermuda or Cayman Islands, and then since then, like, Vermont was kind of the most popular domicile and still is the most popular domicile in the U.S., but probably... 35 states in the U.S. have passed captive legislation where it's relatively easy to set up a captive insurance company in Texas or Oklahoma or Alabama or Georgia.

And so our firm, we help clients set up these captives to solve particular problems.

And what happens is like, well, they set it up for one problem and then things change, like the market gets softer and then maybe they don't, they put it on the shelf or they don't need it as much.