Please allow me space to voice my opinion on this matter.
I am not one bit surprised that the Governor has finally made a decision to close the contractual arrangements between the CI Government and former Commissioner Kernohan.
What is incredible to me is that why did it take the Governor so long to come to this decision. Any normal CEO in a private firm whose management had disobeyed a direct order to return as the Governor Jack stated in early media releases that he had written to him on several occasions and requested he return to work, which obviously went on deaf ears by Kernohan.
Therefore, Kernohan clearly engaged in the actions of being insubordination.
When that occurs and as a former HR manager you know then that the ties are severed and the only resolution to the situation is making a decision to release them on this basis.
What I am concerned with is that for the months that Kernohan refused to return to work he was being supplemented with a full salary. I am suggesting to the Governor Mr. Jack that this country file a suit against Kernohan for the full refund of his salary for the months that he was on leave and refused to return to work without as much as an explanation to the people of this country who pay his salary his full reasons why he ignored the Governor’s (his boss’) request.
I was one of those persons who in the very beginning was sceptical of Kernohan and I simply sat back and waited for the mixer to start stirring in the septic tank around him. Well, it did, and I feel the same way today as I did the first time I heard of him when he turned up on our shores with question marks hanging over his head.
My question then and still is till this day “How is it that we can put a person in so much authority who has a questionable background in charge of the security and policing of our country”.
I suppose Ricardo Tatum’s letter in the Cayman Net News 20 November says it all. The UK and the Judiciary in our country are at war among themselves and when they are finished fighting only one thing will be left for us to do as Caymanians and that is to pay the bill.
Those who have created and crafted this war have no accountability to this country or its people and they are now doing everything in their power to tear this country apart. The true position the UK takes on any country it embarks on – to conquer and divide!
What makes me mad as hell is that our government leaders namely Kurt Tibbetts and McKeeva Bush are too busy ignoring this very serious and ridiculous situation as the two of them fight over toys in the huge Government sand box, and keep telling us the people out here that their hands are tied.
I hope that the people out here remember that line when they go to the poles in May 2009 – Lets tell those two leaders of the ruling government parties PPM & UDP that in 2009 our hands too will be tied and that is why we cannot vote either of them back into power.
On another note that somewhat ties into this, I hope and pray that Judge Levers will be reinstated to her post, she is an exemplary judge and I hope that all accusations against her will be proven to be false and those involved in making these accusations will be re-arrested and this time more competent cops will be in charge and not botch things up.
I have to agree with Ezzard Miller’s letter in the Caymanian Compass as well; we need to look for a replacement police commissioner from within our very own.
I suggest that they pursue this vigorously and put a Caymanian in charge of our Police Force.
Looking for a cop from an area that is limited will not benefit us at all; we will only be putting another person in charge that is looking for a long-term island paradise vacation. We have had our fill of those former commissioners; time to change the system that is not working for this country any longer.
Time for change, change is now.
God bless this country as we head into the storm of recovery from all our broken arenas.
R. Scott
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