After the Operation Tempura and Operation Cealt debacles, we would have hoped the UK-appointed governor and the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service would have learned.
Tempura and Cealt were massively expensive investigations into government corruption. Years later, we still don’t know who or what was being investigated, but we do know that several Metropolitan police officers had a nice romp in the Caribbean on our dime.
Now we hear from the opposition party that there’s been a police investigation into a senior government official – apparently Premier McKeeva Bush – for more than a year now, but no one has heard a peep from the governor or the police about it.
The rumours of this police investigation have been making the rounds recently and we have heard the rumours and even obtained some purported evidence.
However, when we’ve asked the police about this matter, they wouldn’t even confirm there was a investigation into a government official, let alone Mr. Bush. In fact, the official police response to our query was ridiculous beyond belief. The RCIPS said they’d received a complaint about alleged financial irregularities, but failed to say who was complained about in even the broadest of terms. From reading the RCIPS response, the complaint could have been against anyone.
Interestingly, we’ve heard that Governor Duncan Taylor has privately questioned why the local press haven’t written about this investigation, when the press in London would be all over the story. Without the police confirming what we’ve heard, all we can report are rumours. We don’t do that, even thought he UK press might.
Instead of playing a cat-and-mouse game, we hoped the governor and the RCIPS would have realised that if they want to gain back the trust lost during Operations Tempura and Cealt, they should be more transparent, especially if someone like the Cayman Islands premier is under police investigation. This is not a matter that should be allowed to fester on the marl road; the people of Cayman have a right to know.
Instead, we’re left to wonder if this is just another case of UK shenanigans when it comes to supposed corruption in Cayman’s government.
Tempura and Cealt were massively expensive investigations into government corruption. Years later, we still don’t know who or what was being investigated, but we do know that several Metropolitan police officers had a nice romp in the Caribbean on our dime.
Now we hear from the opposition party that there’s been a police investigation into a senior government official – apparently Premier McKeeva Bush – for more than a year now, but no one has heard a peep from the governor or the police about it.
The rumours of this police investigation have been making the rounds recently and we have heard the rumours and even obtained some purported evidence.
However, when we’ve asked the police about this matter, they wouldn’t even confirm there was a investigation into a government official, let alone Mr. Bush. In fact, the official police response to our query was ridiculous beyond belief. The RCIPS said they’d received a complaint about alleged financial irregularities, but failed to say who was complained about in even the broadest of terms. From reading the RCIPS response, the complaint could have been against anyone.
Interestingly, we’ve heard that Governor Duncan Taylor has privately questioned why the local press haven’t written about this investigation, when the press in London would be all over the story. Without the police confirming what we’ve heard, all we can report are rumours. We don’t do that, even thought he UK press might.
Instead of playing a cat-and-mouse game, we hoped the governor and the RCIPS would have realised that if they want to gain back the trust lost during Operations Tempura and Cealt, they should be more transparent, especially if someone like the Cayman Islands premier is under police investigation. This is not a matter that should be allowed to fester on the marl road; the people of Cayman have a right to know.
Instead, we’re left to wonder if this is just another case of UK shenanigans when it comes to supposed corruption in Cayman’s government.
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