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Daybreak – 5 August 2025
You ask, we answer! We’re spilling the tea again in this week’s “Ask the Hosts.”
We’re making a beeline to Reagan’s Honey to try our hand at beekeeping. Spoiler alert: it’s the bee’s knees.
And we want to know — what type of cake does your sweet tooth crave? The newest Daybreak poll results will be served.
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Cayman Compass
Government pushing forward with plans for new subsea telecoms cable
Plans for a new subsea cable are moving forward amid growing concern about the long-term viability of Cayman’s current telecoms infrastructure.
The islands’ connectivity to the wider world – everything from Netflix and WhatsApp to credit card machines and Microsoft Teams calls – depends on two fibre-optic cables linking Cayman to Jamaica and to the US.
A burgeoning new digital assets industry and a growing dependence on tech in the financial services sector is increasing anxiety around the lack of resilience in this area.
Cayman’s main telecoms lifeline – the MAYA 1 sub-sea cable described as the ‘lifeblood of the economy’ – is reaching the end of its useful life, according to a government consultants report which made the case for new investment. That report, produced by Grant Thornton, suggested Cayman should fund at least one additional cable as a national security priority.
