Governor Bruce Dinwiddy cited election officials yesterday for overseeing a smooth, expertly run poll, and said that discussions on constitutional reform would begin soon.
The governor visited the George Town Command Centre twice yesterday, for an hour just after noon and for several hours in the evening starting about 8pm, where he sat with officials observing the counting, watching the returns on computer monitors.
‘My impression is that it is running very, very smoothly,’ he said. ‘We are fortunate to have an expert and dedicated team, and I pay tribute to them. They have run things very smoothly.’
This was his first local election.
‘My main experience in elections is in the UK and other Commonwealth countries. I was a monitor in Tanzania, but there are several differences.
‘The first is that Cayman is relatively small. The second is that we have multi-member constituencies here, while many jurisdictions are moving toward one member constituencies,’ he said.
He declined to be drawn on whether Cayman should adopt a single-member model, bur left the door open for changes in the medium term.
‘I need to be careful about expressing an opinion, but the trend is to move toward one member. Legal advisers to the Constitutional Review Committee have recommended that we move in that direction.
‘Discussions with the UK government about constitutional reform will take place very soon after the elections, and one of the questions to be discussed is about moving towards that,’ he said.
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