Please allow me space to support your editorial of Tuesday, 18 November, in calling for good Caymanians to speak out on all these investigations by the Governor Stuart Jack and his hand picked team from the UK Metropolitan Police force.
I agree with most everything in your editorial except the penultimate paragraph, ‘We believe Governor Stuart Jack is a good man and does have the best interest of these islands at heart;’ don’t know about the good man part but fairly well convinced by his actions that he does not have Cayman at heart.
His track record of decision making and actions since his arrival is certainly less than stellar. Let’s look at some of his decisions:
He goes against the advice of his duly elected Cabinet members and appoints a commission of inquiry into action of one of its members and when the commissioner finds him guilty of wrong doing he refuse to prosecute.
As chairman of Cabinet and with direct responsibility for Police he allows his Commissioner to spend millions on a helicopter we cannot use; that cannot even make it to Cayman many months after it was purchased.
He appoints a covert team of investigators from the Mother Country and after millions of dollars of Caymanian money he sends the two fellow countrymen home on vacations while the Caymanians are arrested, locked in jail (at least overnight).
He allows his expert team from London to arrest a Grand Court judge and loses the case in court
He allows his police force to decimate the drugs task force to guard his Attorney General 24/7, while drugs are the country’s biggest criminal problem. (Mr. Ebanks letter to the editor was rather disturbing and I notice the Gold Command has not responded to his comments, or denied his statements).
If we have an Attorney General who needs protection 24/7, replace him or at least employ a private firm to protect him.
He allows the financial activities of the public purse to go un-audited for several years so citizens like myself have no assurances that funds allocated; some $7 billion over the last several years have been spent for the purposes for which the Legislative Assembly approved them.
The judgment handed down in the recent case with Judge Henderson suggest that he may have been too intimately involved with his team of expert police from the UK.
He is reported to have recruited a new chief of police from St. Helena, an island without an airport and contact with the outside world maybe every two to three months, while qualified Caymanians are denied the opportunity.
He has suspended a sitting Grand Court Judge and appointed another commissioner. Marl Road has it that she will most likely win her case.
Marl Road also has it that his team of expert investigators from the UK are now adopting American style investigation of offering deals to those already charged to sign statements against the bigger fish they are trying to hook.
He has allowed the rollover law to benefit qualified Caymanians in the civil service.
This level of demonstrated incompetence would have gotten him fired and black balled from any middle management position in the public or private sector.
These do not appear to be actions that would be taken by anyone who has the Cayman Islands at heart or the best interest of Caymanians, not even good governance as an intention. Rather they appear to be decisions and actions that were designed to bring us down a peg or two in the international world. Oh yes, we have by some reports dropped from No. 5 to a much lower number, not even any longer in the top 10 or is the top 20.
This looks to me like a systematic dismantling of our judicial system, our police force and the civil service or rather reminiscent of the well practiced colonial dismantling of the colonies’ institutions and their economies before departing their shores and then suggesting that the colonies could not be administered properly without them.
These millions of dollars should have been spent on training and education the Caymanians in the police force. Imagine how many Caymanians we could have sent to the law school or to the FBI or even Scotland Yard with the ten million Governor Jack has spent on all the above actions, and that does not include the law suits settlements to come by individuals for damages. Or maybe to increase the pay of the hard working Caymanian police like time and half for overtime.
It is high time that we Caymanians collectively not only ask the Governor to send home his fellow countrymen and stop these investigations for which we have spent millions and found nothing of any significance, but that he also seriously consider departing on the same flight as well.
Time to start a petition or a march; I am available to help with either.
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