Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Due to this, the Cayman Islands have often been described as "a total colonial frontier society": effectively lawless during the early settlement years. The Cayman Islands remained a frontier society until well into the twentieth century. [5] The year 1734 marked the rough beginning period of permanent settlement in Grand Cayman.
The current Constitution of the Cayman Islands, the fourth written constitution for the Cayman Islands since 1959, was established by "The Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009" of 10 June 2009, and came into force on 4 November 2009, by a proclamation published by the governor of the Cayman Islands.
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.
Since around 2000 the Cayman Islands had sought a new constitution, in order to cement the United Kingdom's possession of the islands. [1] On 22 May 2008 the Caymanian government had announced the question and that it was aiming to hold the referendum in July. [ 1 ]
Before the independence of Jamaica in 1962, the Cayman Islands were under the same administration as Jamaica. As such, the responsibility of the defence of the Cayman Islands and Jamaica was provided by the United Kingdom and the British Garrison in Jamaica, now known as the Jamaica Defence Force. Since Jamaica's Independence, the Cayman ...
The Federal Supreme Court itself was the successor [20] to the West Indian Court of Appeal (established in 1919) [21] and had jurisdiction over the same territories (Barbados, British Guiana, the Leeward Islands (including the British Virgin Islands), Trinidad & Tobago and the Windward Islands) [21] in addition to Jamaica and its dependencies ...
Cayman Islands [134] [135] Proposed state Cayman Islands. Political party: People’s Progressive Movement; British Virgin Islands [136] Ethnic group: people of the British Virgin Islands. Proposed: Independence or autonomy [137] for the British Virgin Islands or unification with the United States Virgin Islands
This page was last edited on 1 February 2024, at 21:54 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.