Topic: ey report

Today we are featuring excerpts from some of the most interesting, compelling and entertaining editorials that have appeared in the Cayman Compass in 2016, on some of the most important issues facing our country.

With their natty shorts, tony blazers and long socks, the people of Bermuda project an aura of respectability and British sensibility. Lying just beneath that veneer (which, like the islands’ pink sand and turquoise water, is showcased for tourists), however, are serious fiscal, political and social problems.

Recommendations from a September 2014 government consultant’s report by the Ernst & Young accounting firm have been pared down to 57 areas which the civil service intends to “progress,” according to a report released last week.

Last week, the Premier said the Compass Editorial Board was wrong to declare that the EY Report appeared to be going nowhere. Let’s examine what the Progressives’ idea of “progress” really consists of.

Since the turn of the century, the Cayman Islands government has produced two especially outstanding reports. Both were commissioned by the government, presumably read by officials, then shelved, shredded, burned and buried.

The clock is ticking on the Progressives administration. In the coming months, our elected government will be subject to intensified scrutiny as to what it has done — and what it hasn’t.

Pound for pound, it could become the busiest public office in the Cayman Islands.

Cayman’s electricity and telecoms regulators are preparing for the “imminent” merger of the independent bodies into one Public Utilities Commission.