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In December 2022, Cayman Islands lawmakers voted to conduct a referendum in 2023 on the decriminalization of limited quantities of cannabis. [2] 2023 passed without a referendum being held. In October 2024, Minister of Tourism Kenneth Bryan announced that the referendum had been rescheduled to take place alongside the general election in 2025. [3]
In July 2022, Labour Party Peer Lord Michael Cashman introduced a private member's bill in the House of Lords that would compel governors of each of the six British Overseas Territories where same-sex marriage is not currently legal (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos) to pass laws ...
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. [1] The Governor may at any time, by Proclamation, prorogue or dissolve the Parliament.
The Marriage Law of the Cayman Islands defines marriage as between one man and one woman. [9] The Constitution of the Cayman Islands notes the right of opposite-sex couples to marry, though it does not explicitly mention same-sex unions. [10] Since then, incremental reforms have been made to recognise some rights for same-sex couples.
The law of the Cayman Islands is a combination of common law and statute, and is based heavily upon English law. Law in the Cayman Islands tends to be a combination of the very old and the very new. As a leading offshore financial centre, the Cayman Islands has extremely modern statutes dealing with company law, insolvency, banking law, trust ...
The British Territories of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands also perform civil partnerships. In South America, same-sex marriages are recognized and performed without restrictions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay as well as the jurisdictions of French Guiana, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich ...
The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
The Government of the Cayman Islands plans to challenge this law, arguing that it violates the Constitutional sovereignty granted to the islands. [31] The British National Crime Agency said in September 2018 that the authorities in the Cayman Islands were not supplying information about the beneficial ownership of firms registered in the Cayman ...