ABCDE NATIONAL WEEKLY Worst Week Secret Service 3 5 Myths Daylight saving time 23 SURVIVOR INSTINCT With Iditarod and Everest, Army vet seeks risky adventures to cope with past PAGE 12 Nation Power play on solar energy 8 Politics Seeing red over GOP’s letter 4 THE WEEK OF SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2015. IN COLLABORATION WITH ESTABLISHED 1965 www.caymancompass.com – 50 CENTS – Monday March 16, 2015 FOUR LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU BETTER: SEVEN MILE BEACH, WATERFRONT, WALKERS ROAD, TOWN CENTRE PLAZA Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Anyone currently unemployed and actively seeking work in the Cayman Islands should be required to register their name and employ- ment qualifications with government’s work- force agency, Chamber of Commerce President Barry Bodden said Friday. Mr. Bodden, whose comments were made at the opening of the Chamber’s annual ca- reers expo, said the organization has noted “continued debate” on stated numbers of unem- ployed Caymanians and legal island residents, versus those who are actually registered with the National Workforce Development Agency. “To correct this situation, we feel it is time to require all unemployed workers to register with the NWDA and to provide these individ- uals with customized attention to assess their existing skills and any barriers they may have to work or career readiness,” Mr. Bodden said. The Cayman Compass reported that as of October, more Cayman Islands businesses were registered with the National Workforce Development Agency than were unemployed or underemployed Caymanian workers. Those figures came from Premier Alden McLaughlin during an address lauding the workforce development agency’s efforts in finding employment for 179 people between July 2013 and October 2014. According to the government office of Economics and Statistics, more than 1,800 Caymanians remained unemployed in the most recent labor force survey. However, well below half of those said to be jobless had registered with the NWDA. National Workforce Development Agency officials have said that approximately 800 Caymanians were registered with the agency at last count. The number includes unemployed Caymanians, those who are considered “un- deremployed” – part-time workers seeking full- time jobs – and those who already have full- time work but who are seeking a new job. Currently, the NWDA does not require all businesses to register with the agency, but that may change in the near future. Premier McLaughlin, in a statement released last week, said: “The National Chamber: Jobless should have to register Heart Health Fair focuses on educating kids JaMes Whittaker jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Chronic preventable diseases repre- sent the greatest threat to the health of Cayman Islands residents, according to doctors who warn of a looming healthcare crisis in the territory. Rising obesity rates are fueling an in- crease in heart disease, asthma, cancer and diabetes that will stretch resources and contribute to a spike in healthcare costs over the next two decades. Now doctors are attempting to target those diseases before they happen. Around 200 people were given free blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index tests at the eighth annual Heart Health Fair at Camana Bay’s Arts and Recreation Centre on Saturday, Dr. Sook Yin of the Cayman Heart Fund said screening is vital to detecting dis- eases before they develop. She said the health profession is increasingly focusing on proactive approaches, particularly working with children, to alter the sed- entary lifestyle habits contributing to the rise in chronic, preventable diseases. “Of course we need to deal with Ebola and chikungunya, but the brewing situa- tion in the next 20 years is that there is going to be a boom in these chronic non- communicable diseases,” she said. “In the past, the approach has been to treat patients when they are sick. Now, the Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Cayman’s Minimum Wage Advisory Committee report – which is expected to recommend a pay rate for the territory’s first minimum wage – has been completed and will be presented to Cabinet within the next month, Tara Rivers, minister of education, employment and gender affairs, said Friday. Ms. Rivers said the lengthy report will be made public following a review by Cabinet members, most likely in the next meeting of the Legislative Assembly, scheduled to begin on April 15. The report recommends the establishment of a minimum wage in Cayman, as well as the steps the jurisdiction would have to take to reach that point, but Ms. Rivers said she didn’t want to dis- cuss specific figures for a minimum wage until the document was released. “We are serious about looking at this issue… beyond just the talk shop,” she said Friday. “We wanted [the committee] to come back with a re- port that says the country is minded to adopt a minimum wage. What is [the committee’s] recom- mended approach, based on the best information you have to hand?” One key issue the committee was expected to make recommendations about is how large a per- centage of Cayman’s workers might be affected by a minimum wage. Committee Chairman Lemuel Hurlston put that number at 30 percent of the workforce – at most. Mr. Hurlston said the categories of workers most likely to have wages raised by such a move would include gardeners, security guards, Doctors target child obesity Minimum wage report goes to Cabinet Dr. Christine Chen is attempting to educate young people about how to read labels in an effort to get them to eat healthy foods. – PHOTO: JAMES WHITTAKER PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » High of 86 Low of 74 Moderate with wave heights of 3 to 5 feet THE WASHINGTON POST Survivor instinct Editorial | pagE 4 GiMMe shelter: Back to the draWinG Board 2 LOCAL&REGIONAL Monday March 16, 2015 • Cayman Compass www. REGmovies.com SATURDAY NIGHT: For your viewing pleasure, minors under the age of 18 will not be admitted to any lm starting after 6pm, unless accompanied by their parent. © Warner Bros. 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Magistrate Angelyn Hernandez said those guide- lines, in her opinion, were “way too lenient.” No one de- tailed the guidelines, but the magistrate later commented that they were very low, con- sidering the penalties that are etched in the law. The Health Insurance Law states that a person who fails to comply is li- able to a fine of $30,000 in Summary Court, and $40,000 in the Grand Court. The magistrate pointed out that employers know they are legally and mor- ally responsible for having insurance. Apart from the court fine, the consequences could be much more se- rious if an employee actually needed coverage. In this case, the com- pany was charged in respect of one employee, for whom there was no insurance in effect between Dec. 1 2010 and Aug. 9, 2012. The owner of the com- pany was charged for failing to have insurance for him- self and his dependents be- tween Aug. 16, 2010 and May 14, 2013. Mr. Allen asked the court to be as lenient as possible, detailing reasons why his client had difficulty getting insurance coverage. This led to a discussion of CINICO, the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company Ltd., which, the magistrate noted, had been set up to provide coverage for indi- gents and uninsurables. The period for which the employee was not insured was 20 months, and the magistrate imposed a fine of $3,500. She pointed out that the period for which the em- ployer and his dependants were not insured was close to three years; she fined him $5,000 for this offense. The magistrate noted there was no evidence as to whether any deductions had been made from the employ- ee’s pay, so she was not taking that factor into consideration. The Health Insurance Law states that a person who fails to comply is liable to a fine of $30,000 in Summary Court, and $40,000 in the Grand Court. NEW YORK — Cuba, so tempting with its rum drinks and beaches, so long off-limits for Americans, is about to become a little more accessible to New York area travelers. Starting March 17, tour operator Cuba Travel Services will begin offering what it says is the first regularly scheduled direct charter service from New York to Havana since President Barack Obama restored dip- lomatic relations with the is- land nation in December. With one weekly flight, Cuba Travel Services is trying to tap the New York area’s large Cuban-American popu- lation. It’s a market that has lured other charter operators in the past only to see them pull out amid periodic chills in the relationship between the United States and the Caribbean country. The U.S. has had an embargo on Cuba for more than 50 years. “There’s a lot more ac- tivity, or at least interest, to do business with Cuba,” said Peter Quinter, chairman of the customs and inter- national trade law group at legal firm GrayRobinson in Miami. New York is a departure from the focus of charter op- erators in the past. Most have been concentrated in Florida, offering bundled airfares with insurance and travel taxes to help Americans take advantage of the limited op- portunities to visit Cuba. Some airlines also offer charter service from cities such as Miami and Tampa. A diplomatic thaw, which eased restrictions on remit- tances, travel and banking, is giving new incentive for char- ters to try again, according to Robert Mann, head of avia- tion consultant R.W. Mann & Co. in Port Washington, New York. “Right out of the gate there’s a lot of people that are interested in doing it. But there’s a lot of nuances to it: legal nuances and opera- tional nuances,” Cuba Travel Services General Manager Michael Zuccato said in an interview last week. On Tuesdays begin- ning March 17, Cuba Travel Services will offer seats on a Boeing 737-800 operated by Sun Country Airlines, ca- pable of transporting 145 passengers from John F. Kennedy International air- port to Havana. The $849 round-trip ticket covers the airfare, Cuban medical insurance and U.S. departure taxes, all necessary fees to complete the excur- sion in what is still regulated travel to the country. New Jersey and New York are home to the third and fourth- largest Cuban American populations, ac- cording to the 2010 census. Florida tops the ranks, fol- lowed by California. While the New York charter flights might signal a steady trickle of travelers from family members, jour- nalists, and humanitar- ians, the floodgates to mass tourism – and U.S. commer- cial flights – won’t be opened until Congress approves a U.S.-Cuba accord and new air service agreements are negotiated. Trips for leisurely strolling through Havana’s barrios and basking on the beach for pure tourism are still banned. Commercial flights to the island may come within the year, according to Quinter. Diplomats met for a second- round of negotiations in late February, and voiced opti- mism that an accord may even be reached by April. The main impediment, from Cuba’s point of view, is its listing by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism. Carol Winker cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Charges have been dis- missed against two teenage males who appeared in court last year in connection with a burglary in Cayman Brac. The burglary occurred at the Coral Isle Bar on the island’s south side on or before July 28. Numerous bottles of liquor were re- ported stolen. Geoff Ryan Scott and Torry Javier Powery, both 17 at the time, were charged with burglary and handling stolen goods. Recently the complainant came to Grand Cayman and spoke with a Crown counsel, saying he did not wish to proceed with the matter. The Crown considered his statement and the strength of the case generally before deciding to offer no evidence. Powery, who was rep- resented by attorney Michael Snape, appeared in Summary Court on March 10. He had pleaded not guilty on an earlier occa- sion. After Senior Crown Counsel Nicole Petit offered no evidence, Magistrate Valdis Foldats entered a formal verdict of not guilty and dismissed both charges. Scott, represented by at- torney John Furniss, was dealt with previously in the same way. MIAMI (AP) — The Coast Guard is searching for two teens swept to sea by rip currents in South Florida. The teens went missing in separate in- cidents Saturday. A 15-year-old boy got caught in a rip current near McArthur State Park in North Palm Beach, and a 16-year-old boy was swept offshore from Vero Beach near the Fort Pierce Inlet. Coast Guard crews are searching for the teens by air and sea. Authorities say swim- ming conditions are dangerous, with waves of 3 feet to 6 feet and 20-knot winds. Rip currents are pow- erful channels of water that flow quickly away from shore. Authorities advise anyone caught in a rip current to swim parallel to shore to es- cape it, instead of trying to swim directly against the current. In a story titled “Heart issues in focus this week” in the March 10 issue of the Cayman Compass, Dr. Frank Scholl was af- filiated with the incorrect hospital. Dr. Scholl works at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida. The Cayman Compass strives for accuracy and is committed to correcting errors that appear in the newspaper. Those interested in contacting the paper for that purpose can email the editor at newsdesk@pinnaclemedialtd.com. NY flights bouNd for Cuba offer glimpse of growiNg market Charges dismissed against two teens in Brac burglary case Two teens caught in rip currents in South Florida CorreCTion on Tuesdays beginning March 17, Cuba Travel Services will offer seats on a Boeing 737-800 operated by Sun Country Airlines from John F. Kennedy international airport to Havana.3 LOCAL NEWS Cayman Compass • Monday March 16, 2015 Glidden, Lawson called to the bar CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com There was standing room only in Court 2 last week when former MLA Cline Glidden and Miss Cayman Islands 2008 Nicosia Lawson were called to the Bar. The au- dience included Premier Alden McLaughlin, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson, Leader of the Opposition McKeeva Bush, present and past gov- ernment ministers and MLAs. Attorney James Bergstrom of Ogier moved the appli- cations for their admission after they completed their ar- ticles with his firm. Both new attorneys made their first address in the Thursday ceremony at the invitation of the pre- siding judge, Justice Robin McMillan. Ms. Lawson said her speech would be short because she wanted to give more floor time to her col- league: “I know he will most likely need it.” Mr. Glidden used a por- tion of his speech to discuss his bout with stage 4 cancer, from which there is only a six per cent survival rate. His condition was diagnosed in April 2014. “Everything else I had ever faced all of a sudden paled in comparison,” he said. The last 12 months had been a roller coaster, but just the previous Wednesday, he re- vealed, his medical scans “all came back showing no signs of cancer, making me at least for this time, cancer free.” “I believe I had the sup- port of the entire Cayman Islands,” he said, thanking everyone for their prayers and good wishes. He paid special tribute to his em- ployer Ogier and training principals because his fight had involved constant travel overseas for treatment. For reaching his goal of becoming an attorney – a designation he said was sig- nificant “because it is perma- nent” – he thanked God, his wife Gloria as being second only to God, his sons, his par- ents Cline and Eula Glidden “because they pushed me, believed in me and have al- ways been there for me.” He said he was committing himself to the fair adminis- tration of justice and doing his part in facilitating true access to justice. Mr. Glidden’s credentials, presented to the court by Mr. Bergstrom, included his grad- uation from Cayman Islands High School and diploma in telecommunications engi- neering earned in the U.K. Mr. Glidden was elected MLA for West Bay in 2000, 2005 and 2009, serving as deputy speaker, tourism councilor and minister for tourism. He was chairman of the government team that successfully negotiated an agreement with Cable and Wireless liberalizing the tele- communications industry. He has been active in sports or- ganizations, including the Special Olympics. He gradu- ated from the Cayman Islands Law School in 2010 and completed the Professional Practice Course in 2012. Ms. Lawson, a product of John Gray High School and the Community College, ob- tained two tertiary degrees in Canada. She worked at the Cayman Islands Development Bank for four years and then used her Miss Cayman schol- arship for law studies in the U.K. Throughout her career, she has been heavily involved in youth programs, including Big Brothers Big Sisters. In her maiden speech, Ms. Lawson paid tribute to the many people who supported her on her journey to be- coming an attorney. “Words cannot express my gratitude at being offered training with Ogier, as articled clerkship is an often seemingly elu- sive opportunity for many as- piring lawyers in Cayman,” she said. She also thanked the firm of Bodden and Bodden for giving her the opportu- nity to gain work experience while still in law school. Ms. Lawson said it was an honor to work in a profession for which she had the deepest respect. “I understand the values and overriding impor- tance of integrity towards cli- ents, opponents and, above all, the court. I shall act with the utmost professionalism,” she pledged. Justice McMillan congrat- ulated both new attorneys. His wish for Ms. Lawson was that she continue to do as she has done to this point, “as a wonderful example to the young people of Cayman.” The judge paid tribute to Mr. Glidden’s courage and steadfastness, over- coming obstacles above and beyond the ordinary chal- lenges of legal studies. He said telecommunications will be an important as- pect of Cayman’s future and he hoped Mr. Glidden would use his knowledge and back- ground to assist the commu- nity in development of the law in this field. The first attorney to be admitted in the col- orful ceremony was Sabina Jerrybandan, who was called to the Bar in Trinidad in 1995. A Cayman resident since 1995 and recipient of Caymanian status in 2012, she specializes in trust law. Attorney Colin McKie pre- sented her credentials. Justice McMillan noted her particular interest in the area of compliance. He said it was very important there should be persons of her competence to fill this role in the community. There was standing room only in Court 2 last week when former MLA Cline Glidden and Miss Cayman Islands 2008 Nicosia Lawson were called to the Bar. From left, James Bergstrom, Cline Glidden Jr., Judge Robin McMillan and Nicosia Lawson at last week’s Bar call. - Photo: Dennie Warren Jr.WASHINGTON – In the mid- 1960s, a social scientist noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan’s Scissors”: Two lines on a graph crossed, replicating a scis- sors’ blades. The descending line charted the decline in the minority male unemploy- ment rate. The ascending line charted the simultaneous rise of new welfare cases. The broken correlation of improvements in unemploy- ment and decreased welfare dependency shattered con- fidence in social salvation through economic growth and reduced barriers to indi- vidual striving. Perhaps the decisive factors in combating poverty and enabling upward mobility were not economic but cultural – the habits, mores and dispositions that equip individuals to take ad- vantage of opportunities. This was dismaying be- cause governments know how to alter incentives and remove barriers but not how to ma- nipulate culture. The assump- tion that the condition of the poor must improve as mac- roeconomic conditions im- prove was to be refuted by a deepened understanding of the crucial role of the family as the primary transmitter of the social capital essential for self-reliance and better- ment. Family structure is the primary predictor of social outcomes, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan knew in 1965. Fifty years ago this month, Moynihan, then a 37-year-old social scientist working in the Labor Department, wrote a re- port, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” that was leaked in July. The crisis he discerned was that 23.6 percent of African-American births were to unmarried women. Among the “tangle” of pathologies he associated with the absence of fathers was a continually renewed cohort of inadequately socialized ado- lescent males. This meant dan- gerous neighborhoods and schools where disciplining displaced teaching. He would later write: “A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male au- thority ... that community asks for and gets chaos.” Academic sensitivity en- forcers and race-mongers de- nounced him as a racist who was “blaming the victim.” Today, 72 percent of African- American children are born to single women, 48 percent of first births of all races and ethnicities are to unmarried women, and more than 3 mil- lion mothers under 30 are not living with the fathers of their children. In 1966, Sargent Shriver, head of President Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” was asked how long it would take to win the war. He replied, “About 10 years.” The conventional wisdom was Kennedy’s cheerful expectation that a rising economic tide would lift all boats. America now knows that bad family structure defeats good eco- nomic numbers. Today, a nation dismayed by inequality and the in- tergenerational transmis- sion of poverty must face the truth that political scientist Lawrence Mead enunciated nearly 25 years ago: “The in- equalities that stem from the workplace are now trivial in comparison to those stem- ming from family structure. What matters for success is less whether your father was rich or poor than whether you knew your father at all.” Moynihan, undaunted by his shrill critics who stifled debate and research, brought his barbed wit to the subject, suggesting that an important determinant of the quality of American schools was their proximity to the Canadian border. That is, high cogni- tive outputs, measured by standardized tests, correlate less with high per pupil ex- penditure than with a high percentage of two-parent families, which are not scat- tered randomly. The election of Kennedy was celebrated in academia as the empowerment of the professoriate. Moynihan rue- fully remembered the eu- phoric expectation of “the di- rect transmission of social science into governmental policy.” We still are far from fully fathoming all that has caused the social regression about which Moynihan was prescient. There has been what he called “iatrogenic government,” an iatrogenic ailment being one caused by a physician or medicine: Some welfare policies pro- vided perverse incentives for absent fathers. But the longer Moynihan lived, the more he believed that culture controls more than incentives do. “The role of social sci- ence,” he would write, “lies not in the formulation of so- cial policy, but in the mea- surement of its results.” Not in postulating what will work but in demonstrating what does work. And, increasingly, what does not work. Chastened by “the obsti- nacy of things,” Moynihan recalled a Harvard chemist defining the problem that ex- ists, in the physical sciences and perhaps in social sci- ence, when, in Moynihan’s phrasing, “the number of variables interacting with one another in any given situation makes that situa- tion extraordinarily compli- cated and difficult to fathom.” Moynihan asked the chemist at what number of variables this problem begins. The chemist replied: “Three.” George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2015, Washington Post Writers Group The islands’ most-trusted news source 4 It’s raining as we write these words. Actually pouring. If we were getting off a plane at Owen Roberts Interna- tional Airport, we’d be wet. Actually soaked. That’s because the current airport does not have jetways, which are boarding bridges that link planes to the terminal and spare travelers from the elements out on the tarmac. Somewhat astonishingly, the plans for the new airport do not include jetways, either. This, to us, appears to be a glaring error but, let’s be clear, it is not a design error (the architects were well aware of the shortcoming); it was a financial judgment error. Cayman Islands Airports Authority CEO Albert Anderson said jetways would just be too expensive – adding $20.5 million to the existing $46 million price tag. “This amounts to approximately 40 percent of our overall budget, and they do not address the main issue we have, which is terminal congestion,” he said. Mr. Anderson, if we may: Certainly overcrowding is one of the issues, but it is far from the only issue at Owen Roberts. In fact, everything about the terminal – from the plumbing to the air conditioning – is anti- quated and deteriorating. Remember, our airport experience forms the first – and the last – impression our visitors have of the Cayman Islands. To be sure, $20.5 million is a considerable sum, but compared to what? The nearly $1 billion in revenue Cayman will collect next year? The $10 million we will spend in the next annual budget to subsidize the Turtle Farm? The more than $100 million we spent on Clifton Hunter High School? If the Airports Authority needs to rearrange the financing for the project (which will have a life expec- tancy of at least 20 years) in order to come up with the $66.5 million or so, then so be it. Not only do jetways protect tourists from sun and storm, but they would also address a more funda- mental problem – the current airport’s inability to accommodate the needs of people in wheelchairs or who otherwise have limited mobility. Cayman’s prevailing “sedan chair” approach, where airport employees carry people up and down the stairs, should not be our long-term solution. This might also be a good time to mention that every flight that arrives at Owen Roberts contains passengers who struggle unsteadily to navigate the airplane gangplank – luggage roller in one hand, handbag or computer bag in the other (no hands left to grab the railing). May we suggest to Cayman Airways (and other carriers) that it would be a nice no-cost gesture to have their attendants keep an eye out for these struggling passengers and offer to help them with their bags. When it comes to the Owen Roberts airport – the umbilical cord connecting our country to the rest of the world – we would dissuade the Airports Authority from opting for less expensive (and cheaper) “mobile solutions,” such as ramps and extendable corridors, in lieu of jetways, which are the standard for modern airports around the world. Our initial impression of the overall “look” of the new airport is positive, and we have no issue waving goodbye to the waving gallery. We appreciate the sen- timent for this welcoming incoming sight, but contem- porary security regulations simply exclude such a nos- talgic nicety. And so, let’s make a good design even better. Let’s add the jetways, get back to the matter of extending the runway to accommodate longer-range aircraft, and let’s upgrade our airport infrastructure to truly “first class.” – EDITORIAL – Gimme shelter: Back to the drawing board Opinion&Letters The Cayman Compass welcomes comments, opinions and viewpoints from readers. Letters to the editor can be emailed to editor@pinnaclemedialtd.com, submitted via www.caymancompass.com, sent by post or hand-delivered to the Compass office. Printed and Published by: Caymanian Compass Limited (a subsidiary of Pinnacle Media Ltd) Compass Centre Shedden Road, George Town send us yOur VieWs Or neWs: P.O. 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A project to significantly strengthen the perimeter fence at the prison com- pound was completed earlier this year. A tender went out Friday for a second project to install a new internal fence at the prison’s vocational center. Prisons director Neil Lavis said the work followed a re- view of security in the after- math of the successful es- cape in August 2013, when three prisoners broke out of a secure recreational area in the prison’s B Wing and cut through two perimeter fences. At the time, authorities highlighted the fact that the fence could be cut with tools. Legislators allocated $1.3 million in the 2014 budget for additional security mea- sures, including CCTV and fencing, at the prison. Mr. Lavis said, “This was part of the full review that was done following that incident. “It will be significantly harder for someone to breach our perimeter once this project is completed.” The request for proposals that went out on Friday was for supply and installation of a chain link fence and razor wire surrounding the prison’s vocational area. “The work on the perim- eter fencing for the prison has already been completed,” added Mr. Lavis. Numerous security flaws at HMP Northward were highlighted in an inspec- tion report in January 2013, which warned that upgrades were needed just to meet cat- egory C standards – the third highest of four security clas- sifications for inmates in the prison system. “The external perimeter, fencing and cellular accom- modation of both Northward and Fairbanks should be brought up to category C standard and more secure inner compounds introduced to hold higher risk prisoners,” said Mr. Lavis. Legislators allocated $1.3 million in the 2014 budget for additional security measures, including CCTV and fencing, at the prison. Prison security improved following 2013 escape KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — It’s Saturday morning at Sha’are Shalom, but there aren’t enough Jews gathered in the dim light of Jamaica’s only synagogue to conduct a formal prayer service. An American tourist watches near the entrance of the historic temple as a half dozen members of Jamaica’s dwindling Jewish commu- nity instead perform informal Sabbath prayers led by a con- gregant. Without the 10 Jewish adults needed for a quorum known as a minyan, men and women gather around a mahogany platform raised above a sand-covered floor to pray and sing to the swelling chords of a pipe organ. “I had to see this temple for myself,” said the tourist, Melissa Solomon, a former Hebrew teacher visiting from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, with her toddler son. “I thought, ‘Jamaica, too, has Jews?’” In Jamaica in the 1800s, there were as many as eight synagogues and roughly 2,500 Jews, including quite a few who had a notable influ- ence on civic life. But tides of migration and assimi- lation have dropped their numbers to roughly 200 con- gregants, and just the one temple remains. With most members of the congregation now older than 50, its members are trying to preserve their history and attract tourists who can ap- preciate it. In an incipient attempt to develop Jewish- related tourism on the island, the Jamaica Tourist Board says it’s cultivating a “Jewish Jamaica” travel package as a form of “heritage tourism” that could encourage visitors to hold family celebrations such as weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs here. Community leader Ainsley Henriques says the Kingston synagogue evolved out of Sephardic conservative tra- ditions from the Iberian pen- insula but adopted liberal practices from British and American Reform movements. His younger cousin Stephen Henriques leads the religious services in the absence of a rabbi and is the legal mar- riage officer for the Jewish community in Jamaica. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police renewed their search Sunday for more victims in a bus accident in southern Brazil that killed at least 49 people. The dead include eight young children, three ad- olescents, 24 women and 14 men, the government of Santa Catarina state said in a statement. The bus plunged 1,300 feet down a mountain near the city of Joinville on Saturday. Ten people were transferred to nearby hospitals, including two children. Their condi- tions were unknown. Officials said that the death toll could rise be- cause more bodies could be found under the bus and in the woods. Police officers and emergency personnel started working on re- moving the bus on Sunday from the mountainous area in Serra Dona Francisca. The bus crashed on a curvy road that wound through a verdant green region popular for hiking and biking in Santa Catarina state, located about 600 miles south- west of Rio de Janeiro. The cause of the ac- cident is under investi- gation although author- ities suspect the driver may have lost control on a curve making the bus run off the road. The group was traveling from Uniao da Vitoria for a religious event near the coast in Parana state. The bus company could not be reached for comment. Jamaica hopes Jewish tourism can help small community Brazil raises toll of Bus accident to 49, resumes search Mr. Lavis A table holding glasses of kosher wine and bread in the cultural heritage center of Jamaica’s last synagogue, the Sha’are Shalom, in Kingston. - photo: ap6 LOCAL NEWS Check out these photos and others by visiting caymancompass.com/photogalleries or on facebook.com/caycompass (and don’t forget to tag yourself and your friends!) Monday March 16, 2015 • Cayman Compass 100 Women in Hedge Funds benefit LIFE Heart Fund Ruby Luncheon A beachside gala at Tiki Beach on Saturday night raised money for local charity Literacy for Everyone. The event was hosted by 100 Women in Hedge Funds, which has more than 450 members in the local chapter. The global nonprofit organization serves more than 13,000 al- ternative investment management investors and professionals through edu- cational, professional leverage and philanthropic initiatives. - Photos: taneos Ramsay The Cayman Heart Fund put the spotlight on heart health issues last week with a variety of “heart smart” activi- ties. In addition to the Ruby Luncheon, below, events in- cluded an International Cardiac Symposium, a Women’s Expo and a free Heart Health Fair. - Photos: Jewel levy Eric Bush, Najoua Ebanks and Michael Ebanks Monique Frederick and Tara RiversTodd Hazelwood, Trinda Blackmore, Lise Baril and Catherine PhamElise Rosenberg, Jenni Huys, Tammy Jennissen and Cathlin Rossiter Elizabeth Budzynski, Francois Du Toit, Carolyn Du Toit, Riyaz Nooruddin and Emily Nooruddin Kara Julian with some of her glass art. Giselle Webb, Lorraine Nixon, Keisha Solomon, Antoinette Williams and Nicole Markman Dr. Sook Yin and Dr. Bella Beraha Valarie Oakley, Nancy Rohleder and Sandra Webster Angela Wood shows off Cayman scents. Ruby Luncheon guest speaker Dr. Barry Katzen, left, with Dr. Madeleen Mas and husband Dr. Ildefonso Mas, all from Miami, Florida.7 LOCAL NEWS Cayman Compass • Monday March 16, 2015 Career expo appeals to kids of all ages VICKI WHEATON vwheaton@pinnaclemedialtd.com The 2015 Chamber of Commerce Careers, Education and Training Expo on Friday at UCCI offered the opportu- nity for students from many Cayman Islands schools to chat with a wide range of business representatives. Booths covering every- thing from careers in the hospitality industry and banking, to entertainment and journalism, were set up throughout the Sir Vassel Johnson Hall, offering in- formation, advice and give- aways to children from pri- mary schools, all the way up through the high schools. From left, George Town Primary students James Ebanks, Mark Javier and Samuel Harding Julando Robinson and Anthwan Dillon of Cayman Academy are interested in becoming sports reporters. - Photos: Vicki Wheaton From left, Isabella Buttrum, Jaysie Allen and Jade McKenzie JEWEl lEVy jlevy@pinnaclemedialtd.com A trip to the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands has earned Triple C Year 11 students a new ap- preciation for microorgan- isms and the role they play. The students visited the galley’s latest tempo- rary exhibition earlier this month to have a closer look at “Luminescent Forms: Art Under the Microscope.” “This was a unique and exciting experience for the students as they viewed the different images and sculp- tors of foraminifera,” said Charlotte Kelly, a science teacher at Triple C School. Ms. Kelly took the students to the gallery to learn more about science from an ar- tistic perspective. “The students were also excited to view the artwork of one of Triple C’s alumni, Davin Ebanks, the creator of the sculpture pieces of the foraminifera,” said Ms. Kelly. She told the students that he graduated from Triple C in 1993 and went on to pursue degrees in art. Student Kevin Redden said, “Having a visual ex- ample and actual pic- tures of organisms enables us as students to gain a better comprehension of what was taught to us in the classroom.” Students had much more to say about sand being in everything. “It was unbelievable how much sand is used to build our society,” said Keilah Quincoces, and David Brown found out that Cayman sand is made up of so many different dead or- ganisms, it’s a “graveyard.” Student Ruby Grace liked learning that there are different varieties of sand and you can tell the difference by looking at them under the microscope, while Mackenzie Morse said she learned how much sand matters to our growing world. “I realize the sand we have is biotic, not just a collection of min- erals,” said Scott Burley, and Leanni Tibbetts said she truly appreciates our sand more. Classmate Jada Conner said she was amazed that sand was even in food. Kerwin Ebanks, edu- cation coordinator at the National Gallery, said stu- dents left with a much deeper appreciation of often-overlooked micro- organisms and the role they play in our ecosys- tems. “They were also able to better comprehend the links between subjects like science and art,” he said. Mr. Ebanks explained the exhibition, and said that through interactive worksheets, activities in the sand lab, their own research and watching “Sand Wars” – a documen- tary on the world’s con- sumption of sand, the stu- dents were able to enjoy a new and unique educa- tional experience outside of the classroom. According to the school, the students were already studying the subject and this experience was an- other way for students to see what they learned in the textbooks from a visual point of view. Teacher Kelly said the National Galley did an outstanding job with a sand exhibit by creating a learning space that is interdisciplinary. “The trip provided my students with an education of the economics of sand, the detailed art of creation at the micro level, and the science of sand.” “Luminescent Forms: Art Under the Microscope” runs until April 17. The National Gallery offers free tours to students of all ages in the Cayman Islands. For more information or to book a tour, contact the National Gallery at education@nationalgallery.org.ky. Students learn science through eyes of artists CHArlEs DuNCAN cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com Erin Brockovich, an ac- tivist and inspiration for the award-winning bio- graphical film, will speak at a luncheon on March 25 to benefit the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre. Ms. Brockovich rose to prominence in the mid-1990s when, without formal legal training, she built a case against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for leaking toxic chemicals into her town’s water supply. The chemical, chromium-6, poisoned numerous residents in Hinkley, California. Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of Ms. Brockovich in the 2000 movie. That case resulted in the largest settlement ever paid in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S., an amount of $333 million. Ms. Brockovich, who now runs a consulting firm to work on environmental is- sues, will speak during the luncheon, on the theme “The Power of the Purse,” from noon to 3 p.m. at The Ritz- Carlton, Grand Cayman. The Cayman Islands Crisis Centre runs a 24-hour domestic abuse hotline and shelter for women and chil- dren escaping violent home situations. The hotline re- ceived almost 300 calls last year from people looking for help or advice dealing with domestic violence. The shelter, which can sleep up to 20 women and children at a time, hosted 42 women and 35 children last year. Families can stay in the shelter for two months and the trained Crisis Centre staff will help them transition to a new, safer living environment. For ticket information, call Alejandro Ruiz on 945-8188, or email alejando.ruiz@fountainhead.ky. A “Bed Race to Eradicate Polio” is set to shuttle along Harbour Drive in George Town on March 21, when all Rotary clubs in the Cayman Islands, together with two Rotaract clubs and Earlyact clubs use the event to raise awareness and money to help wipe out the disease worldwide. Members of the commu- nity can participate by en- tering a team of six, building a bed and pushing it down Harbour Drive. “It’s a fun day where all the family can come out and participate. We expect lots of laughs, and we encourage the public to support this event,” Fiona Moseley, event coordinator and past presi- dent of Rotary Central, said in a press release. There will also be prizes from a $5 raffle donation, and the public can also vote on the best bed design. The bed teams will get ready from 1 p.m. along Harbour Drive, the judging will be shortly after that, and the bed race will start around 2:30 p.m. Rotary is committed to the eradication of polio. With the aid of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matching $2 for every $1 raised, Rotary in the Cayman Islands is making another “push” to raise money to eradicate the dis- ease with this event. Corporations and individuals are encouraged to join up at www.bedrace.ky. The luncheon will benefit the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre. US activist Erin Brockovich to speak at fundraiser rotary’s Bed race Pushes to eradicate Polio Charlotte Kelly, a science teacher at Triple C, views the exhibits with students.8 LOCAL NEWS Monday March 16, 2015 • Cayman Compass Grow your sales with TO BOOK YOUR SPACE CONTACT Christina Pantelidis t. +1 345 525 0404 e. cpantelidis@pinnaclemedialtd.com Maria Ainis t. +1 345 325 5092 e. mainis@pinnaclemedialtd.com Kate Allenger t. +345 925 4104 e.kallenger@pinnaclemedialtd.com Home & Garden Magazine in the Cayman Islands TO BOOK YOUR SPACE CONTACT Christina Pantelidis t. +1 345 525 0404 NEXT ISSUE OUT APRIL 2015 Distribution Lighthouse students love their Sports Day Jewel levy jlevy@pinnaclemedialtd.com Kids from the Lighthouse School enjoyed wheel- chair races, cheering and sprinting on Friday at the school’s annual Sports Day. Approximately 107 stu- dents took part in the half-day event. Deputy Principal Olga Gourzong said every child gets an opportunity to show their strengths, whether it is by rolling a ball or sprinting, and ev- eryone participates in the activities. “It is lots of fun and no one loses at the end of the day,” she said. Parents and guard- ians sitting on the side- lines or following students down the tracks shouted encouragement, along with teachers, to spur the stu- dents on. Caught up in all the excitement, students cheered loudly and laughed at all the activities taking place while urging their classmates to keep on going. Pat Bynoe-Clarke of Caribbean Utilities Company said each year CUC staff volunteers to help out with the sports activities at the Lighthouse School. “We keep scores, help with coordinating and do whatever is necessary to make the sports day a suc- cess,” she said. “We are delighted to be able to attend the event each year.” Approximately 107 students from the school took part in the half-day event. Snappers cheer their team along.Tiann Scott gets a helping hand. – photos: Jewel levy Sprinters take to the field.9 LOCAL&REGIONAL Cayman Compass • Monday March 16, 2015 We thought of you with Love today, But that is nothing new. We thought about you yesterday, And days before that too. We think of you in silence, We often speak your name. Happy Birthday Dan-Dan, we love and miss you very much. Love always, Dad, Mom and the rest of the Family. In loving Memory of Daniel Mitchell Grant on your rst birthday away from us. (16 March 1993 - 22 July 2014) Daniel Mitchell Grant on your rst birthday away from us. on your rst birthday away from us. Now all we have is memories, And your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake, With which we’ll never part. God has you in his keeping, We have you in our hearts. Doctors target child obesity proactive approach is a much bigger part of healthcare. We really want to stop diseases before they develop.” One initiative, led by Dr. Christine Chen, is the MaplesFS Get Active Challenge 2015, which will include 15 overweight or obese children, between ages 11 and 18, and take them through an inten- sive 12-week program aimed at changing their lifestyles. The program involves fit- ness training, advice on reading food labels, a farm tour and learning to make fruit shakes and fresh salads with chefs at Ortanique. Dr. Chen, who was re- cruiting youngsters for the program on Saturday, said the aim is to work with them to change their habits and show them that eating healthy and exercising can be fun. “We’re starting to find more kids with pre-diabetes, hypertension, some with dia- betes. This is directly linked to being overweight or obese. “The program is about trying to get these kids more interested in health. It is about creating good habits that will last, we don’t want them to focus only on the numbers.” Dr. Yin said the medical profession is making a coor- dinated effort to tackle the causes of chronic diseases. “The risk factors are the same in all those diseases, so we are going after that,” she said. Dr. Diane Hislop- Chestnut of the Cayman Islands Children’s Health Task Force said tackling obesity among school-age children is a key priority. She said the task force has begun to target much younger children with healthy lifestyle messages after local studies showed it was harder to change ingrained habits of teenagers. “If you get to the kids when they are younger, it is much more effective. You need to get the parents involved too because the kids are not the ones doing the supermarket shopping,” she added. According to local sta- tistics, around 15 percent of children starting school are already overweight or obese. That figure rises to more than a third of children at ages 10 to 14. Dr. Hislop said children who are overweight early in life are likely to be the same ones suffering from heart disease in their 30s and 40s. Such conditions have im- plications for financial well- being too. “Primary prevention in the long run is more cost effec- tive,” added Dr. Chen. “Who wants to take insulin injections or tablets all their life and have to pay to do it?” One challenge doctors identify is the high cost of eating healthy. Dr. Yin believes more needs to be done to cut the cost of fruits and vegeta- bles in the Cayman Islands. “We want to encourage the government to see how we can reduce the prices on fruit and vegetables. I am not sure why it is so expensive. What is causing it, and how can we help reduce it? “Patients are telling us they can’t afford to buy fruits and vegetables when they can get a bucket of chicken from KFC and feed the whole family.” Minimum wage report goes to Cabinet domestics, restaurant servers and other staff and even some administrative office workers. However, there has been some discussion previously as to whether domestic workers, who can receive room and board as part of their job ben- efits, and service workers, who often make far more than their base salary in gratuities, should be included if a min- imum wage is adopted. Mr. Hurlston also said he did not believe the com- mittee would try recom- mending a separate wage rate for different industries due to the complexities of that arrangement. A series of public meetings held on the topic in February were poorly attended, but Mr. Hurlston said thousands of people had submitted written and verbal comments pri- vately to committee members. Minister Rivers said, whatever the committee’s recommendations might be, it would be up to Cabinet to decide whether the govern- ment wished to implement a minimum wage. The Cayman Islands Labour Law has long con- tained provisions for a min- imum wage, but no govern- ment had created a Minimum Wage Advisory Committee, as the law requires, to recom- mend a base wage. Various recommendations for a min- imum wage, most between $5 and $10 per hour, have been discussed in public settings over the past decade. The Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, the largest organization repre- senting local businesses in the islands, has previously supported the concept of a minimum wage. However, the Chamber has cautioned against running blindly into a solution for a problem that had not been identified. At a Chamber event in February, Anne Knowles with the International Labour Organization urged Cayman to be clear about why it was adopting a minimum wage, if such a decision was taken. “The reason that countries introduce a minimum wage is because they have identi- fied a problem that can be addressed by the introduc- tion of that minimum wage,” she said. “The minimum wage is there to protect the most vulnerable unless there is another problem you are trying to address.” She said a full analysis of the labor market and eco- nomic data also needs to be undertaken, and a survey of actual wages paid needs to be recorded. The work of the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee was undertaken in part to identify that data. For instance, if a minimum wage is set too high, Mrs. Knowles said, it could hinder employment of the least ex- perienced, have a negative im- pact on young workers, bump up other wages, potentially in- crease noncompliance with pay rates or increase growth in a country’s “informal” economy. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 NY property heir arrested on LA murder warrant NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Robert Durst, a wealthy and eccen- tric heir to a New York real estate fortune, has been ar- rested for murder just before Sunday’s finale in a six-part documentary about his links to two killings and the disap- pearance of his wife. Durst was arrested by FBI agents Saturday at a J.W. Marriott hotel in New Orleans, on a Los Angeles warrant for the murder of Susan Berman 15 years ago, FBI spokes- woman Laura Eimiller said. Durst, 71, has never been charged in connection with the unsolved 2000 murder of Berman in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, who was killed as New York au- thorities prepared to ques- tion her in the 1982 disap- pearance of his wife, Kathie. He moved to Texas after Berman’s death, where he lived as a woman before being acquitted in the 2001 dismemberment death of his Galveston neighbor, Morris Black. Durst said that killing was in self-defense. Durst, whose father made billions in New York real es- tate, has always denied in- volvement in his wife’s disap- pearance or Berman’s murder. Defense lawyer Chip Lewis, who successfully de- fended Durst in the Texas killing, said his client will waive extradition and be transported to Los Angeles to face the charges. “He’s maintained his inno- cence for years,” Lewis said. “Nothing has changed.” The arrest came on the eve of Sunday’s broadcast on HBO of the final episode of “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.” The documentary’s film- maker Andrew Jarecki told The Associated Press that Durst is a strange but smart man who has long feuded with his wealthy family. “The story is so operatic,” Jarecki said. “That’s what’s so fascinating to me – seeing someone who is born to such privilege and years later is living in a $300-a-month rooming house in Galveston, Texas, dis- guised as a mute woman.” Lewis, the attorney, said the arrest was orchestrated by Hollywood to come before the final episode. “No doubt,” he said. “It’s all about Hollywood now.” Lewis said he was fa- miliar with the Berman killing and wasn’t surprised by the arrest because of the number of emails and calls he got after last week’s epi- sode aired. He said new evi- dence touted by producers, however, was something he was already familiar with. Mr. Durst Mr. Bodden Workforce Development Agency should become the national clearing house for jobs, giving job seekers, immigration, labor and employers a completely transparent view of the employment situation and allowing Caymanians ac- cess to opportunities that would otherwise become work permits.” The government also put out bids this weekend for a computerized data system for the Immigration Department that seeks to list all open positions for both private and public sector jobs, which any legal resident of the Cayman Islands can view. Once the computerized system goes online, any business ap- plying for a work permit will be able to do so at any time. It is envisioned that applicants for various im- migration services will also be able to pay fees online around the clock. Mr. Bodden said work- force development would be one of the Chamber’s top priorities in 2015. “We must address the issue of youth unemploy- ment, particularly with those under 25,” he said. “The NWDA should be allowed to send these individuals to external training agencies … such as the Chamber’s Professional Development and Training Center.” Meanwhile, for the first time in more than a year, the number of work permits currently held by non-Cay- manians has surged above the 21,000 mark in January, according to data supplied by the Cayman Islands Immigration Department. The total number of work permits held in Cayman on Jan. 22, in- cluding government con- tracts and workers awaiting word on perma- nent residence applica- tions, was 21,403. That’s up 8 percent from the same time a year ago and up 5 percent from the last time the Cayman Compass mea- sured the statistics in July. According to records obtained by the Compass under the Freedom of Information Law, the number of work permits has risen steadily throughout the year, increasing by more than 1,600 permits. “We feel it is time to require all unemployed workers to register with the NWDA and to provide these individuals with customized attention.” Barry Bodden, Chamber president Chamber: Jobless should have to register CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Next >