A three-member delegation from the Anguilla House of Assembly has travelled to the Cayman Islands to participate in a parliamentary conference.
The Parliament of the Cayman Islands is hosting the 2026 Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) at Hotel Indigo, Grand Cayman from 26 to 31 May.
The event is bringing together speakers, clerks and parliamentary officials from across the United Kingdom and its overseas territories to address pressing issues facing legislatures in the modern era.
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Carter has been invited to deliver a keynote address during the conference, titled, ‘Managing our own house: Governance reform and the evolving role of parliamentary commissions within the OTs’.
The session will examine how legislatures structure their internal governance, ensure independence from the executive and modernise their management systems.
The Anguilla delegation will meet with speakers and officials from other territories – including Bermuda, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Gibraltar – that are interested in the island’s AI-driven Hansard system.
Launched in partnership with local technology company Evoluut AI, the system uses artificial intelligence to convert audio recordings of proceedings into formatted, searchable transcripts in real time.
AI and technology in parliaments will also be a major theme of the conference itself, with a dedicated session on, ‘AI and the future of parliaments: Opportunities, risks, and institutional readiness’.
Carter, who has been a vocal advocate for the responsible adoption of AI in parliamentary operations, previously led the discussion on AI at the 2025 conference in the UK.
Hodge has been included in this year’s delegation as part of a deliberate initiative to strengthen the assembly’s institutional capacity.
Her participation through an attachment to the Parliament of the Cayman Islands for the week will provide her with exposure to best practices in parliamentary financial governance.
It will also equip her with the knowledge and professional networks needed to lead the charge as the assembly establishes its own independent financial systems and administration.
The 2026 conference, hosted by Nusrat Ghani, deputy speaker of the House of Commons, UK, and Ezzard Millerm speaker of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands.
Delegations from Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the UK will be in attendance.
The conference programme also includes a formal opening ceremony, bilateral meetings and a cultural evening Pedro St James.
