Two incidents in Thursday’s (July 3rd) news serve to remind me that that the stench of corruption, like a cheap perfume, reeks throughout Caymanian society. Both leads to the conclusion that the Caymanian, especially the poor and disenfranchised, are dealt a different hand of justice than the rich and the connected.
How can the people on the Work Permit Board be expected to be conscientious when their efforts to pursue justice and fair play is so easily put down by the courts. And, what would have been the sentence of a poor Caymanian caught stealing from a supermarket, even in the circumstances of his wife being pregnant?
Many years ago the late Norman Hill told me that justice and fair play were becoming rare virtues in a Cayman where justice favoured the rich and the well connected. Those seeking proof of Norman Hill’s accuracy need look no further than these two cases, for they speak with an obscene eloquence.
J.A. Roy Bodden
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Please explain how this massive improvement of lifestyle came about.