The Compass recently failed to receive answers to questions submitted to potential candidates. Clearly candidates seeking the vote of the Caymanian people while posturing on the pedestal of good governance should declare their interests and campaign finances to include donors.
They should also pledge to make the same disclosures on their departure from office if elected.
This cannot be too onerous a burden for persons who openly declare the predominant reason for election as to serve the public interest.
Frank McField recently complained that he was a one-legged man in an ass kicking competition when it came to campaign finance. Candidates on the clean and healthy podium should embrace the spirit of the law when it comes to campaign funding. They should reveal their positions and plans on matters of the economy, employment, oversight and the police.
To do otherwise would be to send the electorate to the ballot box with the least information and a choice of the old or a doppelganger. Our fearless information commissioner has declared her interests and so too should candidates, the governor, The police commissioner or any others of high office involved with spending the limited resources of the Cayman Islands.
Peter Polack
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