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$5000 grant to help first-time Caymanian home buyers
Government offers a new opportunity for first-time Caymanian homebuyers as it partners with the Cayman Islands Real Estate Brokers Association (CIREBA).
The partnership entails a CI$5000 grant that will go towards up-front costs for all Caymanians that qualify for and receive stamp duty waivers as first-time buyers.
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Cayman Compass
Top officers from the Cayman Islands Regiment have met with their counterparts from UK overseas territories from around the region to discuss how they could work together in a crisis.
The results of the meeting could see Cayman troops deployed alongside others from the region and Bermuda in response to disasters such as the recent Hurricane Melissa, a massive storm that devastated Jamaica.
Major Graham Muir, the regiment’s training and operations officer, said the December meeting in Turks and Caicos was “a chance to discuss how each regiment plans, prepares and deploys in response to the myriad of challenges facing the region, be they climate or security based.
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