Police have launched an investigation into allegations of a breach of curfew that were levelled against Tiffany Seymour, wife of Health Minister Dwayne Seymour.
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, in a brief statement in response to queries from the Cayman Compass, confirmed that it was aware of the allegations.
“Following a number of reports to RCIPS concerning this matter, an investigation has commenced to establish if an offence was committed,” the statement said.
When the Compass reached out to Dwayne Seymour for a response to the latest development, he stated, “No comment.”
The allegation against the minister’s wife surfaced on a Cayman Marl Road post over the weekend which said a personal trainer did a session with Tiffany Seymour at the couple’s home last week. The site stated that she had posted Instagram photos of the exercise session. Marl Road featured the incident under the headline ‘Jackass of the Week’.
On Monday, Cayman News Service reporter Wendy Ledger questioned the health minister about the allegations at the daily COVID-19 press briefing, and he replied that it would take a “brave” person to ask him such a question. “I don’t know who would be that stupid,” he told Ledger, before talking about Mary and Joseph, and about Jesus riding a donkey, a “jackass”, rather than getting a horse.
His response provoked an immediate reaction from the online community, demanding answers and objecting to his response to Ledger.
On Tuesday, Premier Alden McLaughlin described the exchange between Ledger and Seymour as “unfortunate”. He said he had spoken to the minister about the allegations and he was assured that they were “exactly that”.
“I wish, and he [Seymour] wishes, that he had responded differently and for that I apologise, and I am sure that he will do so as well,” McLaughlin said.
The premier was critical of Ledger’s questioning of the minister, saying that she had implied that Seymour was responsible for his family’s actions or that he was guilty of doing something wrong.
Ledger defended her line of questioning in an article on Cayman News Service, saying that she “obviously has no position on the issue but was simply doing her job of holding those in public office to account”.
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