CBO tackling crime & politics

(CNS): The problem of rising crime, unemployment, as well as the prosperity and politics of the Cayman Islands will be the areas up for discussion when a local panel of experts discusses the future of the islands at the annual Cayman Business Outlook conference next month. Gary Linford will be moderating when the Commissioner of Police David Baines (left), Pastor Al Ebanks of Agape Family Worship Centre, Auditor General Dan Duguay, consultant Paul Byles and attorney Sherri Bodden come together to examine the issues at the forefront of the community.

Organisers are also encouraging the public to submit questions, which can be confidential and anonymous to the moderator at conference-moderator@dmtcgroup.com for the “Jobs, Prosperity, Politics and Crime: What’s in store for Cayman?”  discussion which will round out this year’s conference “Prospering in a Grave New World’ on Thursday 21 January at the Ritz Carlton.

McKeeva Bush, the premier, will open the conference which organizers say includes prominent and influential members of the community including professional local and expatriate business people, leading bankers, lawyers and senior members of government.

The CBO 2010 presenters have all made frequent appearances on financial channels and News programmes and are regular print and web columnists. The Keynote speaker is Simon Johnson, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the financial sector and economic crises and a former International Monetary Fund chief economist.  Ann Lee is an expert on financial derivatives and the global financial system. Currently Lee teaches economics and finance at New York University, and has served as an adjunct professor at the Lubin School of Business and Graduate Economics at Pace University, and as a visiting professor to Peking University in Beijing, China. Margaret A Neale is the faculty director of three executive programmes at Stanford University: Influence and Negotiation Strategies, Managing Teams for Innovation and Success, and the Executive Programme for Women Leaders.

Fidelity Bank is the primary sponsor of Cayman Business Outlook, a business networking and conference event designed to expand the knowledge of business leaders in the Cayman Islands and to foreshadow threats and opportunities that may exist in the global economic regime during the coming year. Alongside Fidelity sponsors include Admiral Administration, Campbells Attorneys-at-law, Consolidated Water Co. Ltd., DART, Five Continents Financial Limited, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Ritz-Carlton, Royal Fidelity and Royal Star Assurance.