Cayman Islands

Sunrise Community Church’s Hands On Ministry joined the charity ARK and local firms to repair a West Bay home with live wires, a leaking roof and standing water inside, for single mother of two Tina Ebanks-Jackson.

Sunrise Community Church’s Hands On Ministry joined the charity ARK and local firms to repair a West Bay home with live wires, a leaking roof and standing water inside, for single mother of two Tina Ebanks-Jackson.

The United Reformed Church gave £44,610 to the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after Hurricane Melissa, as Jamaican church leaders said rebuilding homes must come before repairing damaged church buildings.

Cayman’s Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act 2025 is now in force, requiring boards of officers, ensuring church assets serve only church purposes and updating property provisions, as the territory prepares for a 2027 financial crimes evaluation.

Cayman’s Cabinet gave CI$900,000, taken from West Bay High School’s 2025 allocation, to Chapel Church of God for a new church and hurricane shelter, days before the pre-election period of sensitivity began.

As Britain’s United Reformed Church apologised in Kingston for its role in slavery, The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands pledged to give vulnerable people land it had received from slavery’s profiteers, citing the damage done by landlessness.

A West Bay Seventh-day Adventist congregation lost its appeal to build a $2 million temple on a residential road in Cayman after planners ruled it had not shown community need, noting a nearby Adventist church was well under capacity.

Meadowrest Memorial Gardens, owned by the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, won NEPA approval in 2018 to grow its St Catherine cemetery by 19 acres, citing a shortage of burial space and demand that includes overseas mourners.

Grand Cayman’s Gun Bay United Church, built in 1907 and overseen by the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, has been closed as unsafe since 2015, and elders say scarce, costly land is stopping them from building again.