Education & Training
DCI encourages young entrepreneurs
(CNS Business): The Department of Commerce and Investment (DCI) is looking for young entrepreneurs between the ages of 15 and 21 to compete in the Business Plan Competition at the Small-Business Expo on Saturday 18 April.
Chamber calls for mandatory listing of job-seekers
(CNS Business): The president of the Chamber of Commerce has called on government to introduce some kind of mandatory registering of the unemployed and better statistics relating to genuine job seekers. Barry Bodden said that the Cayman economy was improving and poised for growth, which he said would “outpace the local labour pool”, but the […]
Students tackle real life business problems
(CNS Business): Five local businesses are enjoying the benefit of free business advice from a group of students at the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) who are on business course. Atlantic Supply Ltd, Chatterbox, Kelly Holding Ltd, Swim & Trim Ltd and Ted Green Fragrances are taking part in the consulting programme in […]
Finance society donates key study material to library
(CNS): The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute has donated a complimentary set of the CFA curriculum for 2015 to the local library service. The CFA Society Cayman Islands gave the books to the George Town Library to enable all residents in Cayman to have access to the latest edition, which spans all three levels of […]
Young chefs display talent in cook-off
(CNS Business): Five former and present hospitality studies trainees of the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) displayed their culinary aptitude last week when they took part in a cook-off in the kitchen of the world-famous Blue restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton. Desly Kyshon Missick and Zack Myrie advanced to the finals, which will be held in […]
UCCI students gain experience at CIAA
(CNS Business): Students from the University College of the Cayman Islands’ (UCCI) School of Hospitality Studies are gaining hands on experience at the Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA), which is part of a partnership between UCCI and local businesses to give students a chance to learn more about the hospitality and customer service industry. Over […]
HR professionals gen up on Immigration technology
(CNS Business): Thirty people from Chamber of Commerce member companies recently took advantage of a free workshop delivered by immigration officials. The HR personnel were walked through the Immigration On-Line (IOL) facility offered by the government department. IOL was described as a powerful tool that business owners and HR staff can use to efficiently manage […]
Job agency introduces specialist accounts training
(CNS Business): As local people continue to face an uphill struggle to find work, fourteen job seekers completed a Colour Accounting training course recently via the National Workforce Development Agency, which experts say will help them in their job hunt. Described as a “revolutionary new way to learn accountingâ€, the course was sponsored by the […]
Young Caymanians join law firm as articled clerks
(CNS Business): Walkers has announced the appointment of three new Caymanian articled clerks. Renee Prendergast, Arleth Ebanks and Rebecca Peck, who are all former Walkers scholarship recipients, have completed their legal education and have now begun Walkers’ Articled Clerk Training Programme. Over the next 18 months they will undergo rigorous training with the firm and will […]
Cayman bean counters to confer on best practice
(CNS): Registration for the annual Government Professional Development Week, which will take place in November, is now open, officials have stated. The special conference organized by the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants (CIPSA) is open to both public and private sector financial management professionals and covers the latest developments in managing public sector resources […]
Cayman Brac student is new Tourism Ambassador
(CNS Business): Katherine Tatum, a student of Layman Scott High School, topped the 2014 Tourism Speak Off’ debates held at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman on Wednesday, 24 September and was crowned ‘Tourism Ambassador’, to serve for a period of one year. Kayci McCarther representing Grace Christian Academy, and Monike Buck and, Max Pairaudeau from Cayman Prep […]
Harneys sponsors young Caymanian to pursue law degree
(CNS Business): Sydonie Barrett (19) , a former student at St Ignatius School, has been awarded a scholarship by Cayman law firm Harneys to study law at the University of Surrey in the UK. Managing Partner at the firm, Marco Martins, said that Harneys had given Barett the opportunity to qualify with a law degree and postgraduate qualification, which in turn will […]
Kirkconnell: tourism benefits must trickle down
(CNS Business): If the effects of record breaking statistics for tourism in the Cayman Islands are not trickling down to small business owners and the people who work in the industry “then we are merely skirting round the edges of opportunity and our efforts are seriously missing the mark,†Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell told the […]
Tourism apprenticeship programme final graduation
(CNS Business): With the establishment of the School of Hospitality Studies (SHS), the Tourism Apprenticeship Training Programme (TATP) run by the Department of Tourism is being discontinued and so the recent graduation service recognising the last six apprentices who completed the programme was the final one. The TATP, which began in 2006, was designed to […]
Junior Achievement alumna joins JA Board
(CNS Business): Kristina Buckeridge has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the local Junior Achievement. She said she first gained an interest in business, and in particular marketing, during her time in the JA Company Programme, in which high school students learn valuable business skills by forming and running their own company, guided […]
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