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PAC begins
The standing Public Accounts Committee (PAC) got under way this morning in the House of Parliament to examine the Auditor General’s performance report, Financial Reporting of the Cayman Islands Government.
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Cayman excluded as US hits 75 countries with visa freeze
The US State Department announced on 14 Jan. that immigrant visa processing would be suspended for 75 countries including many in the Caribbean. The suspension will not apply for non-immigrant visas, such as tourist, business or student visas.
With the exception of the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago, all independent Caribbean island countries were included in the freeze, which will take effect on 21 Jan. The Cayman Islands, like other British Overseas Territories, was not on the list, which was comprised of those nations whose citizens were deemed most likely to require public assistance in the US.
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