The Cayman Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory,the largest by population,in the western Caribbean Sea. The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman,Cayman Brac and Little Cayman,which are located to the south of Cuba and northeast of Honduras,between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The capital city is George Town on Grand Cayman,which is the most populous of the three islands.
The Cayman Islands are a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean that have been under various governments since their discovery by Europeans. Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10,1503 and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters. Columbus had found the two smaller sister islands and it was these two islands that he named "Las Tortugas".
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Cayman Islands,including population density,ethnicity,religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The economy of the Cayman Islands,a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea,is mainly fueled by the tourism sector and by the financial services sector,together representing 50–60 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The Cayman Islands Investment Bureau,a government agency,has been established with the mandate of promoting investment and economic development in the territory. Because of the territory’s economic success and it being a popular banking destination for wealthy individuals and businesses,it is often dubbed the ‘financial capital’of the Caribbean.
The Cayman Islands is a parliamentary representative democratic dependency. As a British Overseas Territories,Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state. The Premier of the Cayman Islands is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government,legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of the Cayman Islands. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
Catherine Sophia Callbeck is a Canadian retired politician and the current and ninth Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island.
William McKeeva Bush,OBE JP is a Caymanian politician,Speaker of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands and former Premier of the Cayman Islands. Bush,the former leader of the Cayman Democratic Party,is the elected member for the constituency of West Bay West. He is the territory's longest ever serving political figure with service spanning over 35 years,previously serving his tenth term in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands.
George Town is a city situated on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. It serves as the capital of the Cayman Islands,in the British West Indies. As of 2021,the city had a population of 34,399 making it the largest city of all the British Overseas Territories.
Darwin Kurt Tibbetts,OBE is a Caymanian politician and former Leader of Government Business in the Cayman Islands. Tibbetts served as leader of the People's Progressive Movement party from August 2002 –February 2011. Tibbetts served as an elected member for the district of George Town,serving six terms in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands.
The Parliament of the Cayman Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It is composed of 21 members;19 elected members for a four-year term and two members ex officio.
Thomas Carrol Jefferson,OBE was a Caymanian politician. He was the first Leader of Government Business in the Cayman Islands,serving from 1992 to 1995.
Ambuyah Ebanks is the Miss Cayman Islands Pageant 2006 winner. Born to an American mother and a Caymanian father,Ambuyah spent the early years of her childhood growing up in West Bay,Grand Cayman,Cayman Islands. She attended high school in the United States.
Sir Alden McNee McLaughlin Jr. is a Caymanian politician,former Premier of the Cayman Islands. McLaughlin previously served as leader of the People's Progressive Movement party from February 2011 –March 2021. McLaughlin is the elected member for the Red Bay Constituency in George Town,currently serving his sixth term in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands. He has been an elected representative in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands continuously since 2000.
Juliana O'Connor-Connolly is a Caymanian politician,former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands and former Premier of the Cayman Islands.
General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 22 May 2013. The incumbent United Democratic Party (UDP) government fell on a motion of non-confidence in December 2012 and was replaced by an interim government made up of former UDP members who formed the People's National Alliance (PNA). The main competition in the election was between the People's Progressive Movement (Progressives) and the UDP,with the PNA and a new political group the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) presenting an insufficient number of candidates to win a majority government.
Edna Moyle OBE was a Caymanian politician who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the district of North Side from 1992 to 2009,including a tenure the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands from May 2005 until May 2009.
Cayman Islands–India relations refers to the international relations that exist between the Cayman Islands and India. The foreign relations of the Cayman Islands are handled by the British Foreign Office. Therefore,India's foreign policy has focused on economic relations with the Cayman Islands,as well providing consular services to Indians and Caymanians. The High Commission of India in Kingston,Jamaica is concurrently accredited to the Cayman Islands.
Anne Kang is a Canadian politician who has represented the electoral district of Burnaby-Deer Lake in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2017. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus,she was named to Premier John Horgan's cabinet as Minister of Citizens' Services in January 2020,before taking her current role of Minister of Advanced Education in November of that year. Prior to her election as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA),Kang served as a city councillor in Burnaby for three terms.
Annie Huldah Bodden OBE was a Caymanian civil servant,lawyer,and politician. She was the first woman to serve in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands,of which she was a member from 1961 to 1964 and from 1965 to 1984.
Same-sex marriage is currently not recognised in the Cayman Islands. The island's statutory law limits marriage to different-sex couples. A lawsuit with the Grand Court successfully challenged this ban in March 2019;however,the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling in November 2019. Same-sex civil partnerships are legal following the enactment of the Civil Partnership Law,2020 on 4 September 2020.
