Topic: Aduke Joseph-Caesar

A band churned out a bass-heavy reggae-tinged song, with two male and two female singers harmonizing on the refrain: “Illiteracy/Breaking the chains of illiteracy.”

A group of inmates at Northward Prison have completed a pilot vocational training program in which they undertook training in the construction trade.

A heated Legislative Assembly exchange Monday over the fate of a Cayman Islands senior prisons manager brought warnings against “politicizing” the public service from Deputy Governor Franz Manderson.

Cayman Islands opposition lawmakers have asked that Prisons Director Neil Lavis and the acting chief officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs appear before the Legislative Assembly next week to answer questions about a burgeoning scandal in the prisons service.

A former Cayman Islands prisons manager whose contract was not renewed last year in the wake of a “hidden camera” investigation at Her Majesty’s Prison, Northward, alleges that she was “victimized, bullied, spoken down to, ignored” and had her “opinions dismissed” during her period of employment.

A former prisons custodial manager is alleged to have engaged in “inappropriate behavior” with prisoners, according to correspondence obtained by the Cayman Compass last week.

Two top Cayman Islands law enforcement officials have now served a combined three-and-a-half years on paid leave relating to various misconduct allegations, with no sign of resolutions in their respective cases.

A senior Cayman Islands prisons official who was reinstated by a Grand Court order in June has been suspended from her job again pending another investigation by the prison service, the Cayman Compass has learned.

A senior prison manager has become the second person to be dismissed in the fallout from an internal probe into the planting of a hidden camera in an office at Northward Prison.