Governor should stop survey

If you are truly a citizen of the Cayman Islands, and a registered voter, then according to the constitution your voice can be heard. If you are a visitor or guest worker, work permit holder you do not have the constitutional right to override the right of the voice of the citizens of this country and be heard. There is no place for reasoning in such cases. People all over the world do have a voice but there is a time and place for everything; a voice for this kind of input, which is the right of the citizens of this country. This is the same privilege that you as a citizen enjoy in your own country and which we as Caymanians are excluded.

Mr. Lemuel Hurlstone, the former deputy governor, is fully aware that the voices of grassroots Cayman is very important as far too many efforts are being made to drown out the voices and wishes of the people in attempt to divide conquer and control the lives and the economy of the people of the Cayman Islands. For too long the Chamber of Commerce has taken the podium where our people should be presiding and chairing. Enough is enough. People need to know their place and privilege and our government and NGO’s have not done a very good job of explaining where and what rights begins and where rights ends.

Mr. Hurlstone is a likeable person whom I respect highly but it is important that we do not succumb to the so called UDP tricks and trades. Therefore, safeguards must be put in place to ensure that Caymanians are having their say and not everyone else, including the whole world. This is a very serious issue and it is no time to roll over and play dead. It’s time to stand up and fight for yourselves and for your future and for your children. Visitors and guest workers must understand that working in this country and making political governing decisions for this country are entirely different and they must be required to govern themselves accordingly. Non Caymanians are not constitutionally qualified to make policy decisions to determine the future of the people of the Cayman Islands, there is a limit to every privilege and Caymanians must decide their own destiny, not everyone else.

I submit that if the governor’s office and the UK office has provided the necessary Internet apparatus for Cayman’s citizens to directly and securely respond to them Then why does Mr. Hurlston need to lead a separate survey on behalf of the premier? Is there an ulterior motive with a hidden agenda?

I conclude that I suspect and is seldom wrong that this survey by the premier is unwarranted, is out of order, questionable and should be avoided. This survey initiative by the premier, led by Mr. Lemuel Hurlstone, can only serve special interests groups that support the premier and could ultimately advocate numerous input from expats and guest workers who have no constitutional right to the process. As a matter of fact, the governor should act responsible and not allow the premier to conduct a separate survey that will undoubtedly be used as a measuring stick to present to the UK, which I am sure will not reflect the wishes nor the interests of the people of the Cayman Islands, since this is the style that the premier has used to govern the country since his election of May 2009. My conspiracy theory of this suspicious survey of the premier could very well result in requests to grant him more power to his hunger and to have his way in removing the rollover permanently for the purpose of flooding the country with foreign labour, keeping Caymanians jobless and at bay who oppose his actions, with no cap, no checks and balances and of course unchecked and unbalanced engagements in development that is proven to unceasingly tailored against the will of the people.

This is a dangerous situation with all the warning signals.

I hereby appeal to Governor Duncan Taylor as the governor and the representative of the Crown to use his executive powers stop the premier’s survey process that is more likely to obstruct, offset the true picture and the true feelings and will of the people of the Cayman Islands per adventure it is pushed through as the opinion of the Caymanian people when it is in fact the opinion and will of the premier and his special interest, non-Caymanian supporters. This could be one of the greatest injustices against the people of the Cayman Islands in our history that could haunt us for ever.

The governor of the Cayman Islands must respect that the UK is asking for input from the people who are true citizens of the Cayman Islands and provisions have already been made for voters’ input directly to the governor’s website and the UK FCO’s Website; then why in heavens name would Governor Duncan Taylor allow Premier Mr. McKeeva Bush to conduct a separate so called survey to possibly be used to enhance or influence the true picture of how the people of the Cayman Islands really feel about their sufferings, their hardships, their future and their constitution and Bill of Rights.

I submit that the premier that has no business usurping the governor’s authority and no constitutional right to usurp the FCO office in the UK.

The premier is out of place to conduct a survey or attempt to generate input from the people when provision has already been made by those who have the ultimate authority.

I further conclude and warn the people of the Cayman Islands not to participate in this exercise as the premier has great opposition and we already object to numerous counts of autocratic decisions that have been made without the approval of the citizens of the Cayman Islands.

The survey is a waste of time and could run the great risk to potentially be very harmful to us all. Consider Mr. Lemuel Hurlestone’s comment, that” Foreign opinion will be included?” How much more foreign opinion do we need to make our lives more miserable? ”

I make a final appeal to Governor Duncan Taylor to use his executive powers and intercept or abolish any surveys or attempts by Premier Bush to override the provisions the governor’s office website and the UK FCO’s website has already provided for the people of the Cayman Islands to make direct input that fortunately will be unaltered, unfiltered, with no bias, no bull and secure.

We have no way of knowing how the survey by the premier will be used, tailored, butchered, bloviated, or opinionated by party politics. The Governor must help us escape this beast that could turn things in an unprecedented direction.

Governor Taylor we await your response on acting on our behalf which is very urgently needed at this time.

May God Bless the Cayman Islands.

Florence Goring-Nozza