Cabinet Office

Documents

Questions

• Number of status grants by Cabinet in 2003 (grand total and monthly breakdown)
• List of persons recommending status.
• List of persons granted Status by Cabinet in 2003.

Response

While Hon Ministers may have submitted names of individuals to be included on a list of persons to be granted Caymanian status, there is no record of such list in this Office or any other Ministry or Portfolio.  In July 2003 a number of persons were granted Caymanian status with the focus that a total of 500 well-deserving persons would be granted such and this was done in the spirit of recognizing that 2003 was our Quincentennial Year.

As of September 2003 a total of 1895 persons were granted status, the majority of whom were residents of these islands for periods in excess of ten years.  In some instances between twenty and twenty five years and in at least one instance in excess of seventy years.  Cabinet took the view that because of their profession, their particular expertise etc., they should be encouraged to remain in these islands and thereby make their skills (services) available to the people of these islands.  In this category were found doctors, attorneys, persons in the financial industry, teachers, persons in the Health Services and law enforcement.

There may have been persons here who had not been here for ten years but who had strong family connections to these Islands, such as a parent, grand parent or even persons who were born here but never had any security of tenure because of conflicting provisions in the British Nationality Act and the Immigration Law or its predecessor the Caymanian Protection Law. 

Further grants of Caymanian status were given in December 2003 bringing the number to a total of 2850 with the monthly breakdown as follows;

• March - 3
• June - 64
• July - 406
• September - 1404
• October - 541
• December - 432