New Leadership for Lands & Survey

The Lands & Survey Department is extremely pleased to announce that Mr. Rupert Vasquez will be serving as Acting Director of the Lands & Survey Department.

Mr. Vasquez began his career as a surveyor in Belize. In 1982, he moved with his family to the Cayman Islands to begin his distinguished career with the Lands & Survey Department. 

Mr. Vasquez has provided dedicated service to the Cayman Islands Government in several key positions. He has held the post of Senior Surveyor, Administration in the Survey Unit, headed the Quality Assurance Unit, and was officially named Chief Surveyor in 2007. In 2011, he was named Deputy Director / Registrar of Lands.

We urge you to join us in extending our warmest congratulations and support to both Mr. Vasquez, and to Mr. Alan Jones, who will be stepping into the position of Chief Officer of the Ministry for District Administration, Works, Lands and Agriculture (DAWLA), replacing Mr. Kearney Gomez.

The new postings take effect on 1 February 2012.

New GPS Base Station in George Town

Lands and Survey have installed a new GPS satellite base station on the roof of the Elgin Avenue office building. After a month of testing the system is now up and running and is receiving signals from both GPS and GLONASS satellites.

The new base station is part of a network of stations on Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands which transmit positioning information over the cell phone network. This enables Land Surveyors and other Geomatics Professionals to achieve extremely accurate GPS positioning in real time.

The Cayman Islands GPS stations also provide essential data for the international network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), co-ordinated by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) in America. (more...)

Boundary Plans / Prescribed Composite Maps
Now Online

Lands & Survey Department is pleased to announce a new section of the Cayman Land Info website, which provides practitioners with a single source of information on published road schemes. Going forward, all Boundary Plan (BP) and Prescribed Composite Map (PCM) plans and notices will be available online, reducing the need for paper distribution, and providing quicker and easier access to these public documents.

To view these plans and notices please visit the Road Schemes page.