Less than 20 per cent of the respondents of the most recent caycompass.com online poll think the Cayman Islands will get a new constitution by 2009.
Of the 251 responses to the poll, 25 (10 per cent) thought Cayman would get its new constitution in 2008 while 24 people (9.6 per cent) thought the new constitution would come in 2009.
‘It will be used as a toll to try and push the elections to November 2009,’ predicted one respondent.
Forty-seven people (18.7 per cent) thought the new constitution would come in 2010 or after.
‘Not until we get a government with actual vision,’ said one person.
‘There is nowhere near a consensus on this issue and the PPM doesn’t have enough support anymore to push for one,’ said someone else.
More than a quarter of the respondents (72 votes – 28.7 per cent) do not believe Cayman will ever get a new constitution.
‘Maybe they should come up with some human rights laws first,’ said one of those respondents.
The largest block of respondents (83 votes – 33.1 per cent) answered ‘who cares’ to the question of when they thought the Cayman Islands would get is new constitution.
‘Really now; will it make any difference whatsoever to the average Caymanian?’ one person wrote. ‘This island is so backwards when it comes to human rights and a constitution that neither I nor my children will ever see something passed in our lifetime.’
Another respondent felt similarly:
‘By the time it arrives it will be old and outdated.’
One person said there was only one way Cayman would get a new constitution.
‘When we become independent, which I pray never happens.’
One person wondered about the process of getting a new constitution.
‘There are three issues: the Bill of Rights; single member constituencies; independence. When will each be resolved? In three referendums?’
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