(Left to right: Mr. Christopher Clarke, Parliamentary Page; Mrs. Zena Merren-Chin, Clerk & Chief Officer; Mrs. Patricia Priestley, Assistant Clerk; and, Mr. J. Kim Evans, Serjeant-at-Arms. Missing: Ms. Nordra Walcott, Assistant Clerk.)

The Clerk provides procedural advice to the Speaker and Members of Parliament in accordance with the Standing Orders and other statutes that govern the Legislature as well as having resort to the practice of the United Kingdom House of Commons. The Clerk keeps the votes and proceedings of the House and Committees of the whole and is responsible for the custody of the votes, records, Bills and other documents laid before the House.

Together with the Speaker, the Clerk signs all legislation passed by the House for the Governor’s assent. Under the direction of the Speaker, the Clerk is responsible for the production of official reports of all speeches made in the House or in Committee of the whole.

The Clerk is the Registrar of Interests and the Honorary Secretary of the Cayman Islands Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and coordinates arrangements for visiting parliamentary delegations, conferences and seminars.

The Clerk is supported by a Deputy Clerk and two Assistant Clerks who support the administration of all House procedings and documentation, as well as by a Procedural Clerk who primarily supports the Standing Public Accounts Committee and the Standing Select Committee to Oversee the Performance of the Office of the Ombudsman.