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The majority voiced opposition to the plans, which will involve the destruction of 15 acres of reef, the loss of the historic Balboa shipwreck, and sediment impact on a large section of adjacent reefs. “What I am seeing is a death sentence for huge areas of reef on the west side of the is- land,” said Sunset House owner Adrien Briggs, one of several dive industry leaders to voice opposition to the proposal. Underwater photographer Courtney Platt said the project would severely impact snor- keling and glass-bottom boat tours, particu- larly on Soto’s Reef, which he said was the best shallow water site on the island. “There is no alternative site. If we lose that 10,000-year-old reef structure we have lost something truly special as a tourism product for the very cruise passengers we are talking about. “To me that is not worth the potential, rel- atively small increase in economy. When you weigh all the negatives you have just shown us … it doesn’t add up to me.” The consultants estimate that damage to marine resources would cost the country be- tween $100 million and $165 million over 20 years, principally from direct tourist spending on recreation and water sports activities in the harbor. A separate report has estimated a potential wider economic benefit of around $250 million over the same period, assuming the new berthing facility results in a 1 percent annual increase in cruise tourism. Dave Anglin, of Baird Consulting, said, “I am not here to promote this project by any stretch of the imagination – our task was to identify impact, positive and negative and mitigation measures; it is not my decision.” He said it was a complex site with signif- icant constraints and challenges and recom- mended an updated cost-benefit analysis be FIFA deFendAnt wAnts out oF detentIon CIFA gets $128K funding in Finance Committee Brent fuller and CHarles dunCan bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com One of seven defendants in the U.S. rack- eteering probe involving high-level FIFA offi- cials and sports marketing executives has ap- pealed against his detention in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice an- nounced Wednesday that the appeal was lodged against the office in Swiss federal criminal court. “The federal criminal court will rule on whether or not he will have to remain in cus- tody for the entire length of the extradition proceeding,” Ingrid Ryser, a spokesperson for the federal office stated, adding that both parties in the case have the right of appeal to the Swiss federal supreme court once a decision is made. Ms. Ryser said she could not identify the defendant appealing against his detention due to privacy reasons. The seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich, Switzerland on May 27 including Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb, have remained in detention pending extradition to the United States. “The persons are still being detained … at a number of different facilities in Canton [county] of Zurich,” Ms. Ryser said in an email sent last week. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern Tourism figures remain strong James WHittaker jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Air arrivals into the Cayman Islands have surpassed 150,000 in the first four months of 2015, an increase of almost five percent over the same period last year. Figures released this week show just over 36,000 tour- ists touched down at the Owen Roberts International Airport in April, a small increase on the same month in 2014. Air arrival figures – the key metric for the success of the tourism industry – have been steadily rising since 2009. More than 380,000 tourists arrived on island by air last year, which was the best on record. Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell has said the num- bers will start to plateau this year, because of a shortage of hotel beds. “We have reached the satura- tion point and are experiencing the first signs of limitations in capacity,” he told industry leaders at the Cayman Islands Tourism Association’s annual general meeting in April. He said last year’s “double- digit” increase in numbers would not be repeated in 2015, predicting a rise of around five percent in arrivals for the year. The numbers for April represent PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 6 » Cayman gets a taste of Chicken Soup for the Soul Chicken Soup for the Soul book series co-author Jack Canfield, left, appeared with Caymanian Shomari Scott at the Thrive event at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman on Monday. For more photos, see In Focus on page 8. - Photo: MAggIe JAckson. PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 6 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 6 »2 LOCAL NEWS Thursday June 11, 2015 • Cayman Compass www. 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Justice Michael Mettyear summarized events that led to the charge before passing sentence. He said the woman saw Silburn fishing off Seven Mile Beach and spoke to him about fishing. The con- versation lasted only a few minutes. The next day, which was her last day of vacation, Silburn saw her on the beach and attached himself to her, at first trying to sell her a necklace and later sharing her food and drink. It was suggested during his trial that Silburn had in some way spiked or drugged the drink that the woman was consuming from a can- nister. However there was no witness to his doing so and no forensic evidence to estab- lish that had happened. Crown counsel Candia James had accepted that, for the purposes of sentencing, this aspect of the case had not been established to the requisite standard. In any event, the judge concluded that he could not be sure whether the drink was tam- pered with. If he had been sure, that would have been a major aggravating factor in the case, he said. Continuing the narrative, he said that the woman, for some reason or another, be- came somewhat incapaci- tated and Silburn had unpro- tected sex with her to which she did not consent. When she flew home the following day she re- ported what had happened to a member of the cabin staff and US authorities became involved. The judge said Silburn lied to police when he was interviewed about the matter “and, as the jury found, you lied to the court in your evidence.” The defendant had claimed that the act was consensual. The tariff in Cayman for rape, as announced in 2002, is 10 to 12 years. Justice Mettyear noted that at the time it was announced, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie said that rape had become alarm- ingly prevalent. The tariff is the sentence to be applied in a typical case: mitigating fac- tors will reduce it and aggra- vating factors will increase it. Justice Mettyear indicated that defense attorney Crister Brady had done his best to persuade the court there were no aggravating features. “Your counsel has done his best to put before me what could be said in your favor,” he told Silburn. Mr. Brady had pointed out that, although his client had previous convictions, there were none involving vio- lence or any sexual offenses. Further, Silburn had not been convicted of anything since 2001. The judge said that, fol- lowing the Court of Appeal, he could scarcely justify a sentence outside the 10-12 year range, but Mr. Brady had persuaded him that he was able to select the very bottom of that range. Justice Mettyear noted that at the time the tariff was announced, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie said that rape had become alarmingly prevalent. Carol Winker cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Trial has been set for Thursday, Dec. 3, for two people charged with stealing water from the Water Authority. Jermaine Glenbert Thompson and Angella Thompson are accused of theft of a quantity of water valued at $5,988.46 on or before Feb. 16, 2014 at an address in East End. They appeared in Summary Court on Tuesday and each en- tered a plea of not guilty when Magistrate Valdis Foldats put the charge to them. The quantity of water was not specified. Defendant sentenced for attempted murder Carol Winker cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com An exchange of words turned into a physical con- frontation that ended up with one man in hospital and another man in court for attempted murder. The man in court was Rudy Kendal Solomon, 49, who was sentenced last week to three and a half years imprisonment after the Crown accepted his guilty plea to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The incident that led to the charges occurred in East End on Jan. 14, 2014 when Solomon was walking past a group of individuals standing outside a residence. It was not clear who spoke first, but words were exchanged between Solomon and one of the men. Solomon then walked toward the complainant. The man believed that Solomon was going to as- sault him, so he picked up a rock and hurled it at him. Solomon continued his ap- proach and when he came close enough, the com- plainant kicked him. The complainant then felt a sharp pain in his chest; realizing he had been injured, he ran. Solomon chased him and stabbed him repeatedly and in- discriminately. The attack stopped only when Solomon was told that the com- plainant was dead. He then left the scene. Justice Michael Mettyear observed that the wounds as described in the medical report did not appear to be very deep or cause long- lasting injuries. They had been inflicted with what he referred to as a craft knife, which did not have a very deep blade. Some of the wounds were described as lacerations, the longest of which was 12 centimeters (about 4.7 inches). The complainant also sustained a broken leg. The basis of Solomon’s plea was that the man injured his leg on objects that were in the area where he ran. Justice Mettyear pointed out that Solomon had caused the leg injury indirectly. Defense attorney Laurance Aiolfi emphasized that the incident was en- tirely spontaneous: there was no planned attack. After the first rock was thrown, Solomon believed the other man would pick up another rock or some other object. He accepted that what had begun as self-defense went beyond what was reasonably nec- essary when Solomon lost control of himself. Mr. Aiolfi said Solomon had the knife for his craft work, “which was very much the focus of his whole life.” He said Solomon ac- cepted that if he didn’t have the knife things would not have escalated as they did. The attorney noted that Solomon had a serious history of being bullied and victimized. His charges had been be- fore the court for some time because Solomon was on a course of treatment for a mental disorder. This condi- tion had settled down after a period of prescribed med- ication and abstinence from drugs and alcohol. Mr. Aiolfi had asked the court for a Goodyear direc- tion – that is, an indication of what the maximum sen- tence would be if the defen- dant pleaded guilty. Justice Mettyear had said his maximum would be four years. Mr. Aiolfi then spoke in mitigation, pointing out that Solomon had not had any conviction for violence in over 20 years. The defendant had also said he was sorry for what had happened. Justice Mettyear re- minded Solomon that he had not ceased his attack even when other people at the scene tried to stop him. The judge indicated that he accepted the expression of sorrow. He adjusted the four year sentence to three and a half years. Trial set for theft of $6K of water Excessive violence used in self-defense Missing Cuban national ConfirMed safe in us road Closures for Queen’s birthday The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said U.S. enforcement officials in Miami, Florida have confirmed that Cuban National Sahira Wong Quintero, who was living on Grand Cayman, arrived in the United States on Saturday, 23 May, 2015 in good health. The 22-year- old female was reported to police as missing from her home address in George Town on May 13, 2015. Detectives from George Town carried out sev- eral lines of enquiry, in- cluding the setting up of a Major Incident Room (MIR). Confirmation from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services have now brought this complaint to a close. It is not yet known how Ms. Quintero departed from the Cayman Islands. Several road closures will occur between 6 a.m. Friday, June 12 until 1:00 p.m. Saturday, June 13 to fa- cilitate ground preparation, rehearsal and the Queen’s Birthday Parade Celebrations in front of the Legislative Assembly Building. Streets will be closed at the junctions of Fort Street with Harbour Drive; Fort Street with Mary Street; and Edward Street with Dr. Roy’s Drive. Motorists are advised to avoid this area during these times.The islands’ most-trusted news source 3 Cayman Compass • Thursday June 11, 2015 ACROSS THE ISLAND IN OVER 90% OF NETWORK TESTS ACROSS FASTERGEORGE TOWN, WEST BAY, BODDEN TOWN AND EAST END, DIGICEL’S 4G NETWORK WAS FASTER THAN ANY OTHER NETWORK WITH SPEEDS UP TO 96.35 MBPS. 27TH TO 31ST MAY 2015The islands’ most-trusted news source 4 – EDITORIAL – 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. Box 1365 Grand Cayman KY1-1108, Cayman Islands Telephone: (345) 815-0095 Email: newsdesk@pinnaclemedialtd.com adVertise With us: Telephone: (345) 949-5111 Email: sales@pinnaclemedialtd.com Website: www.caymancompass.com PUBLISHERS daVid r. legge and Vicki l. legge EdITOR-In-CHIEf daVid r. legge A MEMBER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION “Give light and the people will findtheirownway” Thursday June 11, 2015 • Cayman COmpass It’s back ... (In fact, it never left.) The persistent phenomenon to which we refer is GASBOY, the Cayman Islands government’s manage- ment system for its North Sound fuel depot. For the better part of the past decade, GASBOY has been the subject of much abuse: both practically, by civil servants who treated the government fueling station as their personal supply of gasoline, and rhe- torically, by government auditors who flagged about $500,000 worth of fuel purchases, just in one year, as being potentially suspicious. For the record, we editorialized on this subject in mid-February, saying, “The GASBOY scandal repre- sents more than just a few hundred thousand gallons of gasoline gone missing. It’s an obvious symptom of a far more serious malady entrenched in Cayman’s gov- ernment (and our society, generally): Our high toler- ance for low-level corruption.” To put the GASBOY problem in perspective, in spring 2010 then-Auditor General Dan Duguay published a report by the government’s Internal Audit Unit, along with a related review by his office, that quantified the amount of suspicious fuel purchases as totaling a full one-third of all fuel purchases made at the North Sound depot between January 2008 and March 2009. While Police Commissioner David Baines (whose tenure began in June 2009, after the audit period) and other Cayman officials questioned the magnitude of those dollar amounts, no one disputed the obvious shortcomings of the GASBOY monitoring system. In other words, nobody can say with certainty (or a straight face) how much, or how little, government fuel was “mis-dispensed” for personal use — and that is precisely the problem with GASBOY. Despite the original damning reports and the follow- up audit by Auditor General Alastair Swarbrick in 2012, government has continued to use the antiquated and flawed version of GASBOY. Now, Planning Minister Kurt Tibbetts has announced that the government’s problems-plagued GASBOY system is being replaced — with an upgraded GASBOY system. Acknowledging that the current system is “very much outdated,” he said the new GASBOY will have auditing and security features to help prevent misuse and theft, such as time restric- tions, maximum volumes for gas cards and built-in tracking so managers can monitor employees’ fuel use. Mr. Tibbetts also said the new GASBOY has physical security features to confirm that only government vehicles are being refueled, and can track mileage automatically to make sure the fuel is being used in the government vehicle. Although we at the Compass are believers in “second chances,” when it comes to GASBOY, our immediate reaction more closely aligns with the view expressed by East End Arden McLean in the Finance Committee last week: “It is a system that is doomed for failure and it has always been doomed for failure.” We shall see — probably when the next round of government fuel depot audits have concluded. GASBOY 2.0: Will ‘upgrade’ fix fuel abuse? FrOm CAYmAnCOmpASS.COm ‘Treason’ and free speech If the president of the United States or any other country publicly accused someone of being treasonous, they would have already been arrested. The fact that the leader of the country made a statement that this was a treasonous attack on the people of the Cayman Islands in itself can incite violence against [the publisher] and his family as well as the ed- itor and employees of the Compass. If some type of act of violence had been com- mitted against Mr. Legge or anyone associated with this, the Cayman Islands gov- ernment would be in deep trouble. I am sure this is why they were keeping an eye on him, but that’s not really the issue at hand anyway, is it? As far as advertising in the Compass goes, just as another comment pointed out, let’s just see how many of them refrain from plastering their photos all over this news- paper during the election. I’ve been following this and reading how everyone is so worked up over it, but the fact is that had Alden McLaughlin sucked up what the article said and just car- ried on with conducting gov- ernment business, not only would this have never made the international media, it would have been long for- gotten like all the other edi- torials and news stories that offend some people. Again, I will say what this has accomplished is making everyone forget about the real issues that are facing Cayman like the pos- sible destruction of a huge part of the marine environ- ment being considered by the same people who blasted the last administration for considering the same thing, or the suggestion that the currently sitting leader may have conspired to bring down the last legally elected government – some would call that a coup; and then there’s also the fact that the George Town dump is still sitting there growing and poisoning the air and sea around us all. Most of these things we would have no idea about if it were not for companies like the Cayman Compass, as well as all the other news services, small, medium or large. One other thing this did was to greatly increase the exposure of the Cayman Compass. In the news busi- ness any publicity is good for ratings, whether it be good or bad. A lot more people now know of the Cayman Compass and Mr. Legge. You can expect more copies of it to be picked up at the news- stand now, especially at the airport. Not to mention the website, since the New York Times published a link to the Compass in their article for all Wall Street and the rest of New York to see. News is just what it is: news. It’s up to each and every individual to interpret the news the way they want to and develop their own opinions about it. These edi- torials are opinions and ob- servations, and may offend some people. However, if it does, the answer is to offer a different opinion or alter- native way of speaking and allow people to dwell on the differences of those opinions, then come to their own con- clusions. That’s how grown- ups handle things. What Alden did is no dif- ferent than what he’s filed a lawsuit against McKeeva Bush for. Once again, this shows me a man that can dish it but not take it. Or a man that has a great deal to hide expending a huge amount of energy to keep the people that may point the finger at him quiet. Sounds like a “destroy them before they reveal me” strategy, but hey that’s only my opinion and I’m always open to al- ternative opinions, but you will need to show me factual, concrete and understandable evidence and be prepared to explain your explanation in order to sway how my opinion has developed. In my opinion what needs to happen in short is: ■■ Mr. Legge, come on back home and get back to the business of bringing us the news. We appreciate what you at the Compass do and need you there to keep delivering the news ■■ Alden, get over it and get back to the business of running Cayman. We all know you’ll have the big- gest ad in the Compass this time next year ■■ Caymanians and non- Caymanians, can’t we all just get along? These are my own per- sonal opinions and observa- tions, something I do have a right to have. michael Davis China exports repression Washington Post Editorial Board It is common for tyrants to claim that human rights are an “internal matter” and should not concern out- siders. When faced with complaints that they deny people freedom to speak, protest, worship and vote, these autocrats like to say: Buzz off. That’s how China’s leaders have responded for decades when called out for their abysmal record on human rights. Yet Beijing is increasingly exporting its “internal matters” – the re- pression of critical or even independent voices – to other countries. We noted previously how China used a computer at- tack in March to damage servers in the United States that enabled citizens to by- pass the Great Firewall, that massive, smothering blanket imposed by the state on Internet freedom. Researchers in Canada con- cluded that Beijing has de- veloped an offensive cyber- weapon, dubbed “the great cannon,” to take down web- sites outside China to which it objects. Now we are concerned about how China is at- tempting to punish the ethnic Uighur journalist Shohret Hoshur of Radio Free Asia by imprisoning his three brothers in China. Hoshur left China in 1994 after he ran into trouble with the authorities because of his reporting. He has since become a U.S. citizen, and his work has provided an important window on events in the largely Muslim province of Xinjiang, beset in the past few years with a violent conflict that China blames on Uighur sepa- ratists. Radio Free Asia is funded annually by the U.S. government’s Broadcasting Board of Governors. Hoshur’s original and cou- rageous reporting irritated the Chinese authorities, and his family in Xinjiang began suffering several years ago. But the intimidation and threats have accelerated in recent months. One of Hoshur’s brothers was sentenced to five years in prison last year on charges of violating state security laws. Two other brothers have been detained since August after discussing the trial in a phone conversation with Hoshur. Now, according to Hoshur, family members have been told that both detained brothers – who have disappeared into the gulag and not been heard from since – are about to be formally charged with leaking state secrets. Hoshur told us this is a worrisome development be- cause it means a prosecutor has approved the charges. These allegations are vague, trumped-up and of the kind often used in political per- secutions. Hoshur says his brothers are farmers and merchants and are not in- volved in politics. They are being punished simply to hurt Hoshur. The Chinese probably as- sume that they can imprison Hoshur’s brothers with im- punity and simply tell the rest of the world to get lost. We think the United States should declare, loudly and publicly, that such brazen intimidation is reprehen- sible. The brothers of Hoshur should be released and the family left alone. When China persecutes a journalist living in the United States, it is no longer an “internal matter.” © 2015, The Washington Post These editorials are opinions and observations, and may offend some people. However, if it does, the answer is to offer a different opinion or alternative way of speaking and allow people to dwell on the differences of those opinions, then come to their own conclusions. That’s how grown-ups handle things.5 LOCAL NEWS Cayman Compass • Thursday June 11, 2015 Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Tinted windows, unregis- tered vehicles and covered li- cense plates should all come under stricter local legisla- tion, Royal Cayman Islands Police Service Commissioner David Baines told lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly’s Finance Committee last week. “You might want to think about where cars are unin- sured, and not couponed, they become forfeit and dispos- able under the law and you’ll see a significant change,” Mr. Baines said. Both government back- bench MLA Anthony Eden and independent opposition MLA Ezzard Miller voiced separate concerns during the committee’s debate on the police budget about traffic safety and neighborhood nui- sances on the roads. “People drive like mad people,” Mr. Eden said. “I’m doing, like, 40, 41, 42 [miles per hour] and they’re crossing me like they’re standing still,” Mr. Eden said. Mr. Miller said, in his dis- trict of North Side, it seems as though the same “half-dozen” people are committing the same traffic offenses almost on a daily basis. “Noboby seems to be able to get any control over these people,” Mr. Miller said. “The tint on the windows, the same thing happen[s]. Do we need to amend the Traffic Law to say, after a number of offenses, re- peat offenses such as tint and mufflers, we confiscate the car?” “That will sort it out,” Commissioner Baines said. In addition, the commis- sioner said government should consider denying import and business licenses for companies who put tint on car windows, other than those legitimately au- thorized to do so. He also sug- gested that the sale of license plate covers, which can prevent police officers from seeing the number plate of an offending ve- hicle, should be banned. “[Tint and covered number plates] are adding to our is- sues,” Mr. Baines said. “We fill bins with enforcement and they go and buy another one.” Mr. Eden questioned whether, since the effective elimination of the RCIPS Traffic Enforcement Unit during the government’s 2010/11 budget year, officers were able to keep up with these issues. Statistics released by the RCIPS have shown a sharp drop in the overall number of traffic cita- tions between 2010 and 2014. The numbers started trending back up this year. “[We] fully understand the frustration and also the added danger,” Mr. Baines said. “We have been raising programs of enforcement activity … we routinely do between 550 and 560 traffic enforcement tickets a month.” To help alleviate officers’ workload, Mr. Baines said the RCIPS has begun traffic en- forcement efforts with the special constabulary. Special constables are unpaid, volun- teer officers who work in cer- tain capacities with the police. Mr. Baines said the spe- cial constabulary unit would focus on traffic issues such as covered license plates, tinted windows and speeding. Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Acting Chief Fire Officer John Bodden has been placed on ‘required leave’ – suspended with pay – from the Cayman Islands gov- ernment, pending the out- come of a police investiga- tion against him, Ministry of Home Affairs officials con- firmed Wednesday. The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said Mr. Bodden had not been charged with any crimes as of Wednesday, but re- mained on police bail on suspicion of dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident. Mr. Bodden was arrested at the George Town Police Station last Thursday and his vehicle seized as part of the police investigation. Meanwhile, the recruit- ment process for a full-time Cayman Islands fire chief was proceeding, according to officials and a final decision was expected shortly. The Jan. 26 car crash that led to Mr. Bodden’s arrest oc- curred on Shamrock Road just before 7 p.m. A 14-year-old boy suffered serious head and leg injuries after he was struck on the pedestrian crossing outside Savannah Primary School. His 21-year-old brother was also hit while walking across the four-lane section of road. The elder brother was treated and released from the Cayman Islands Hospital shortly after the crash. The younger boy was hospital- ized for several weeks af- terward and police said Thursday that the 14-year- old has since been released from hospital. The Cayman Islands Fire Service – which hasn’t had a permanent, full-time fire chief since early 2013 – named veteran firefighter Ronnie Dixon as acting chief in Mr. Bodden’s place. Mr. Dixon currently serves as a senior divisional of- ficer for the fire service’s domestic division. “You might want to think about where cars are uninsured, and not couponed, they become forfeit and disposable under the law and you’ll see a significant change.” DaviD Baines, police commissioner Baines: Government should consider seizing uninsured cars Fire chief on ‘required leave’ Mr. Baines Tinted windows like those on this car have drawn the ire of legislators and the police commissioner. – Photo: Chris Court Mr. BoddenThe islands’ most-trusted news source 6 HAVANA (AP) – Late one balmy spring night during Havana’s 12th Biennial, young working-class men and women lounged on a stretch of sand dotted with folding chairs and um- brellas, an artificial beach created as an art installa- tion on the capital’s Malecon seaside promenade. Meanwhile, at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, the beach’s 40-year-old cre- ator, Arles del Rio, sold an- other piece featured at the last biennial for $11,875, more than 40 times the an- nual salary of an ordinary Cuban. The piece, titled “Fly Away,” is made of chain-link fence with a hole in the shape of a jet, making it appear the plane flew right through it. Cuba’s growing interna- tional trendiness combined with the government’s topsy- turvy labor regulations are making sculptors, painters and other artists some of the richest people on the island. It’s a demonstration both of Cuba’s accomplishments in culture and education, as well as its economic diffi- culties after a half-century of communism. “When I was in art school, my parents almost threw me out of the house because I hadn’t chosen a ‘real’ ca- reer,” said printmaker Max Delgado. “These days, there’s real competition among kids studying music or painting.” Cuba allows its citizens to Thursday June 11, 2015 • Cayman Compass carried out, taking into ac- count the findings about the economic value of the reefs lost. Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell said the report and the feedback from the meeting would be factored in to the final decision on whether or not to proceed with the cruise port. The consultation pe- riod extends to July 3. If the project proceeds, fur- ther engineering studies would be required before tendering for the three-year, $150 million construction job can begin. The new port could open for the 2019/20 cruise season. At Tuesday’s meeting, dive industry veterans also expressed skepticism about the viability of a coral re- location project, proposed by the consultants to help salvage some of the marine habitat that would be lost. “I’m going to be very frank – what you are pro- posing about moving the reef is probably a total impossi- bility. I don’t think it will ever happen,” said Peter Milburn, of Dive Cayman Ltd. Mr. Anglin said any coral relocation project would be complex, labor intensive and expensive, and would not compen- sate fully for the lost reef. He acknowledged that the mooted $13 million price tag was the most conser- vative estimate and that no budget had been earmarked within the project funds for any coral relocation. “It is not perfect, but if the project goes ahead you have to do it, I don’t think you have a choice.” He said sections of reef could be cut away and moved en-masse to a new location. District of New York has re- peatedly declined to comment on the status of its extradition request for the seven defen- dants, all of whom are accused in various bribery and money laundering schemes in a 47- count U.S. federal indictment. According to the Swiss Federal Office of Justice’s website: “For those individ- uals who are contesting ex- tradition, the Federal Office of Justice will now ask the U.S.A. to submit formal ex- tradition requests within the 40-day period provided for in the bilateral extradi- tion treaty. Extradition pro- ceedings will be resumed as soon as these requests have been received.” According to the extradi- tion treaty, the defendants may be held in detention for the full 40-day period, but it is not required, depending on what the Swiss courts de- cide. It has now been 14 days since the men were detained. The U.S. has until July 3 to send an extradition request. Until the Federal Office of Justice rules on the case, the seven defendants can always change their minds and agree to simplified extradition pro- ceedings, at which point they would be turned over to U.S. authorities immediately, offi- cials said. CIFA funded Although FIFA remains in turmoil, the Cayman Islands Football Association is proceeding under new leadership. On Monday night in Finance Committee, mem- bers of the Legislative Assembly voted without de- bate to give almost $128,000 to the Cayman Islands Football Association. After Webb’s arrest in Zurich, CIFA last week sus- pended Webb and named Vice President Bruce Blake as provisional head of the organization. Legislators approved giving $127,775 to CIFA in the Finance Committee at about 9 p.m. Monday without debate. The expense was bun- dled with grants to a number of other non-governmental sports programs, including the Amateur Swimming Association, the Basketball Association and others, total- ling more than $800,000. According to budget doc- uments, CIFA will use the money for sports programs and creating a new five-year strategic development plan. Government funding for the next fiscal year is the same as the current year. The international CONCACAF under-15 tour- nament, touted as the big- gest sports event in Cayman’s history, was cancelled this week as local and regional football officials deal with the fallout from the ongoing FIFA scandal. Thirty-seven teams, including England and Brazil, had planned to come to Cayman for the August tournament. Webb started the tour- nament in 2013 in his first year as CONCACAF president. CONCACAF is the regional association, under FIFA, cov- ering North and Central America and the Caribbean. a modest half a percent in- crease on the same month last year. At the cruise ship dock, arrival figures are also improving. April was a significant month for the cruise in- dustry with 175,225 people coming ashore, an increase of 30 percent on the same month last year. The total increase for the first four months of the year has been more modest with 719,298 cruise pas- sengers arriving in Cayman compared to 677,663 in the same period last year, an increase of just over six percent. Director of Tourism Rosa Harris commented: “I am very pleased to see the continued successes of our destination maintaining a competitive level of growth that will undoubtedly set us on the right path to end the year positively.” Mr. WebbMr. Blake CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Tourism figures remain strong FIFA defendant wants out of detention Cruise piers: ‘death sentence’ for reefs CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Topsy-turvy laws, trendiness bring Cuban artists riches work in hundreds of types of private jobs outside the state- run economy but virtually none of those positions allow entrepreneurs to create real wealth. The island’s most po- tentially profitable business sectors and professions re- main entirely under control of the state, which currently pays an average salary of a little more than $23 a month, or about $280 a year, in addi- tion to the heavily subsidized health and other government services everyone gets. But an exception was cre- ated at the end of the 1980s, when independent artists became some of the first Cubans that the government allowed to earn money out- side the confines of the state and keep the profits from the direct sales of their work, sometimes for tens of thou- sands of dollars. That has created a tiny class of artists who are wealthy by Cuban standards and can divide their time be- tween the island and coun- tries such as the United States or Spain. They can duck Cuba’s roughly 50 per- cent income tax on works sold outside Cuba. Cuban economist Arturo Lopez-Levy, a lecturer at the University of Denver, said that under the island’s bifur- cated economy most people earn puny state salaries while those with access to foreign money like the top- end artists can live like kings. In the Sotheby’s auction two weeks ago, the works of Cuban artists surpassed expectations. One piece by Alexandro Arrechea went for $118,000, a lot of three pieces by a pair of artists who call themselves Los Carpinteros captured $60,000, and a sculpture by the artists’ collective “The Merger” got $50,000. “This situation is due above all to the creation of a two-lane economy, with one sector connected to the market and another with the remnants of the command economy inherited from the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s,” Lopez- Levy said. Along with medicine and science, art and music are fields in which small, poor Cuba punches far above its weight. While it treats medi- cine and scientific research as resources to be jealously guarded for the good of the nation, the government has seen artists and musicians as valued cultural ambassa- dors who are afforded spe- cial treatment. The phenomenon is only expected to grow with warming ties between Cuba and the U.S. The detente is al- lowing more American visi- tors, including wealthy art collectors, to travel legally to the island on “educational” tours that often include the purchase of art, which can be legally exported back to the United States. Organizers of the 2015 Biennial that opened May 22 have said they expect 2,500 Americans will visit this year’s fair, many of them art buyers, before it wraps up on June 22. Don Pappalardo, founder and CEO of Troika, an arts and entertainment marketing consultancy in Southern California, said Cuba is “is one of the most vital areas for contemporary art in the world today.” The entrance to a studio and art gallery stands open in Old Havana, Cuba. - Photo: APThe islands’ most-trusted news source 7 Community Calendar ■ Community Calendar is published Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is available to charitable or nonprofit organizations. Items should be submitted at least three working days before publication. Information must include name of sender, signature and contact number. ■ Items may be faxed to 949-2662, brought to the Cayman Compass office on Shedden Rd. or emailed to cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com at least three days in advance of publication. Cayman Compass • Thursday June 11, 2015 YOU DESERVE FIVE STAR TREATMENT. YOU DESERVE FIVE TREA 178477_PRINT-Butterfield-3x8-SysPage 1 6/9/15 9:25:02 AM THURSDAY, JUNE 11 PAINTING OPEN STUDIO: The Visual Arts Society holds sessions at Watler House Studio, Pedro Castle grounds, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Artists are free to work on their own or take guidance from a qualified instructor. Today, June 18 and 25. $25 per session for members; $35 non-members. Sessions with no instructor, 1-4 p.m., $10 members; $15 non- members. Contact 546- 9422 or visualartcayman@ yahoo.com FRIDAY, JUNE 12 EVANGELISTIC SERVICES: Youth Night at John Gray Memorial Church, West Bay, 7 p.m. All are invited to services Sundays through June, at 10 a.m. Guest speaker is the Right Reverend Christopher Mason, moderator, United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. SUNDAY, JUNE 14 REVIVAL SERVICES: Calvary Baptist Church, 191 Walkers Road, invites everyone to their 30th anniversary celebration, 10 a.m. Lunch served afterwards. Revival services nightly June 15-19, 7:30 p.m. Call 949-0629 for more information. MONDAY, JUNE 15 BRAC QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY: The District Committee of the National Trust invites everyone to a Queen’s Birthday Garden Tea Party. 4 - 6:30 p.m. Tea social, fundraising silent auction, art show & membership drive. For more info call 916-3960. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 MOONLIGHT & MOVIES: Tonight’s film at 7 p.m. is The Croods (PG). Families are invited to Gardenia Court in Camana Bay to set up a picnic on the grass, or just bring a blanket, relax and enjoy the show on the outdoor big screen. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: General public meeting at Pedro Castle, starting at 7:30 p.m. Visitors, please park outside and walk in. This also removes the issue of car head lights, which dazzle observers on entry. As usual the evening will be canceled if there is any rain or the sky is more than 50 percent cloudy. Phone to confirm at 925-7657 around 7 p.m. Please do not text. THURSDAY, JUNE 18 VISUAL ARTS AGM: The Visual Arts Society holds its annual general meeting and social at the Watler House, Pedro Castle grounds, 7 - 9 p.m. Members are invited to bring a guest. Only members may vote. Refreshments follow meeting. Contact VAS if planning to vote by proxy. visualartcayman.yahoo.com FRIDAY, JUNE 19 YOUNG IMAGE MAKERS: Short Films Red Carpet Premier and Awards Ceremony. Harquail Theatre. Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission is free. See all the YIM finalist films on a big screen. Winners announced. Special Appearance by Miss Cayman Islands 2014/15 Tonie Chisholm. For more information call 949-5477. SATURDAY, JUNE 20 BRAC GRADUATION: Layman Scott High School Graduation, 7 p.m. Aston Rutty Centre LITTLE LEAGUE: Little League annual fundraiser (rescheduled because of weather earlier this month), 6 p.m. $10,000 grand prize. $10 tickets available from players, parents, outside supermarkets, and at the Field of Dreams. Phone 916- 5643 for further details. SUNDAY, JUNE 21 FREE DOG VACCINES: Due to the parvo virus outbreak, Island Veterinary Services holds a free vaccine clinic for all unvaccinated puppies and dogs. 10 a.m to 2 p.m. The clinic is for owners who cannot afford to vaccinate their dogs. Clinics will run every two weeks until the dog has had five vaccines. The dog will not be protected without all five vaccines. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 FOOD HANDLERS: Certification course in basic food hygiene are offered by the Department of Environmental Health; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the DEH conference room in the Environmental Centre, 580 North Sound Road. $15 per person covers all materials and fees; pay at DEH headquarters, 580 North Sound Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. Call 949-6696. GENERAL INTEREST REEF RESTORATION: Certified divers are invited to work on the Cayman Magic Reef restoration in George Town. A schedule of work dates and times is posted on Facebook under Cayman Magic Reef Recovery. Dates, times and places are listed under Events, for volunteers to check and sign up. PRESCHOOL FUNDING: The Ministry of Education offers funding to assist eligible young Caymanian children to attend an early childhood center (preschool). Application forms are available at the Government Administration Building on Elgin Avenue, at the Department of Education Services on Thomas Russell Way, and from early childhood center directors/ operators. For further information, call 244- 5735 or contact turnette. stewart@gov.ky or renee. barnes@gov.ky. HIV TESTING: Free HIV testing is available every Tuesday year-round at the Cayman Islands Red Cross on Thomas Russell Way. Anyone wishing to get tested should arrive by 9 a.m. Testing will be available every Tuesday, 9-10 a.m. Contact HIV/AIDS Coordinator Laura Whitfield at 244-2631. MUSEUM TOURS: The National Museum provides guided tours for students and school groups free of cost. Students will gain an understanding of Cayman’s geological formation, flora and fauna, seafaring and rope-making heritage, political history and more. Contact the museum to book a tour in advance at 949-8368 or email info@museum.ky. ART FOR STUDENTS: The National Gallery hosts free Active Learning Sessions for students of all ages. Part tour, part art activity, the tour takes students up-close with the National Collection – more than 50 years of Caymanian art history – providing links to literacy, mathematics, social studies and science. For information or to book a session, contact 945-8111 or education@ nationalgallery.org.ky. FREE GALLERY TOURS: Free guided tours of the temporary exhibition “Plastic In paradise: Scenes of Real Life Fictions” by Heidi Bassett Blair are available for students of all ages at the National Gallery. Students will discuss the exhibition and get hands-on art activities that incorporate literacy and numeracy. Tours run until July 3. For information or to book a tour, contact 945-8111 or education@ nationalgallery.org.ky. SCHOOL REGISTRATION: Registration of students enrolling in or transferring to government schools for the 2015/2016 school year is open through June 26 at the Department of Education Services and the Cayman Brac Teachers Centre. Registration forms available at government schools, the Department of Education Services at 130 Thomas Russell Way, George Town, or the Brac Teachers Centre. Registration for reception classes is open for qualifying children who are age 4 before Sept. 1. For more Community Calendar events, visit www.compasscayman. com/caycompass/portal/ community-calendar.8 LOCAL NEWS Jack Canfield, the American motiva- tional speaker and co-author of the Chicken Soup of the Soul series of book, was the keynote speaker at the Thrive event at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman on Monday June 8. The event also featured local speaker Shomari Scott. 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!) Thursday June 11, 2015 • Cayman Compass Adrienn Sergios and Jesse Surgeon Mary Ann Mehigan and Kristin Dilbert Alex Beckford and Akeylah Bartlett Fiona Hobday and Erika Hinchcliffe Natalie Urquhart, Darren Trickett, Jack Canfield and Gregg Anderson. - Photos: Maggie Jackson Jack Canfield and Sheena Conolly Nikki Broadhurst, Jeannie Lawler, and Dr. Lana Watler Milly Serpell, Ciara Aspinall, and Pam Abbott Karina McDermot, Jack Canfield, and Amber Yates Michele Aubert, Jack Canfield, and Nadege ParentThe islands’ most-trusted news source 9 Cayman Compass • Thursday June 11, 2015 Brit arrested for naked mountain pics A 24-year-old British woman has been arrested in Malaysia for posing naked on top of a sacred mountain. Bush supports more troops in Eastern Europe to stop Putin BERLIN (AP) – The United States should consider sending thousands more U.S. troops, along with NATO forces, to Eastern Europe to match the strength Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing in the re- gion, Republican presi- dential hopeful Jeb Bush said Wednesday. Capping the two-day German leg of a European trip aimed at bolstering the former Florida governor’s for- eign policy credentials, Bush said Putin is “a bully” who can only be contained by a show of robust force. “I’m not talking about being bellicose, but saying, here are the consequences of your actions,” Bush told re- porters before departing his Berlin hotel for a meeting with the German foreign min- ister. “And that would deter the kind of bad outcome that we don’t want to see.” Bush said in a speech to a prominent European eco- nomic conference in Berlin on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama’s adminis- tration had rightly has sent American forces to train along the border of Poland and the Baltic nations, which border Russia. The deployment, on a ro- tating basis, is a response to Russian-backed separatists who have taken over a large segment of Ukraine, a former Soviet republic. Troops from several nations, including the U.S., Canada and others, are part of the temporary force, which also includes hun- dreds of armored personnel carriers and tanks. But leaders in Estonia, which Bush will visit on Friday, along with fellow Baltic nations Lithuania and Latvia, have asked the U.S. to send more – and more permanent – U.S. forces to the region. Bush said the U.S. and the NATO military alliance ought to consider matching Russian forces, performing exercises on the opposite side of the border. The U.S. needs “to be consistently clear” that NATO rules requiring the defense of fellow treaty nations be strictly upheld. He credited Obama with reiterating that point at the recently Group of Seven conference in Germany. “They’re deploying tens of thousands of people in the region, I mean, literally next door to our allies and our response is far less mean- ingful,” Bush told reporters, referring to Russian moves in the region. “From the outside, without having any kind of classified information, it ap- pears we could have a more robust presence.” When asked if he would support basing U.S. troops permanently along the Russian border, Bush said, “I don’t know.” “I’m here to listen and learn and get a better sense of all this. I don’t come to offer five-point plans,” he said. Bush also stopped short of calling for a U.S. naval pres- ence in the area, though Great Britain has recently deployed a warship to the region. Bush is in Europe this week meeting with business and government leaders in Germany, Poland and Estonia, stressing his view that the U.S. role in the region has softened under Obama, and that a Bush administration would bring renewed involve- ment in European affairs. Bush was to travel to later Wednesday to Warsaw, Poland, where he was to meet with the country’s outgoing president and president- elect. He wraps up the trip in Estonia and will return to the U.S. on Saturday. Bush plans to announce his candidacy Monday in Miami, and couldn’t escape questions about politics at home – particularly his team’s internal politics. On Monday, Bush named Danny Diaz, an aide to the past three GOP presidential nominees, as the manager of his upcoming campaign. David Kochel, who had been running the early goings of Bush’s emerging organiza- tion, will be senior strategist, with a special emphasis on early-voting states. But Bush dismissed the no- tion of turmoil. Sally Bradshaw, his longtime top political aide, and California-based consul- tant Mike Murphy, who will run a super PAC supporting Bush’s candidacy, remain at the top of his operation. “This is an adjustment based on the skills of people that I got to know over the last three months,” Bush said. Clinton building vast network of campaign staff, volunteers MANKATO, Minn. (AP) – Scott Hogan wanted to know why his batch of potential volun- teers was “ready for Hillary.” The campaign staffer didn’t get the answer he wanted, but it was enough to get the conversation started. “To tell you the truth, I like Bernie Sanders for just his honesty, but I don’t think he’s electable,” said Gina Casey, 59, sitting at a confer- ence table at a Democratic Party office. “So, I’m trying to love Hillary and I need to know more.” A former gun control activist hired by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presi- dential campaign to orga- nize the reliably Democratic state, Hogan made the pitch for his boss over Sanders, the independent Vermont senator mounting a longshot challenge for the Democratic nomination. “This campaign is about you,” Hogan told Casey and a handful of other Democrats gathered on a hot Tuesday night in this small southern Minnesota city. “It’s not about me. It’s not about Hillary. It’s about how best to move this country forward.” In a presidential race likely to include more than 20 candidates, none has an operation like Clinton. In just eight weeks since announcing her plans to run for president, Clinton has de- ployed an army of roughly 100 organizers such as Hogan nationwide and opened 15 of- fices in early-voting states – far more than any other can- didate of either party in the 2016 contest. The overwhelming fa- vorite for her party’s nomi- nation, Clinton doesn’t nec- essarily need the volunteers now. But worried she will lack the power of a compet- itive primary to energize the core group of supporters she will need for the general elec- tion, Clinton’s team has set off on an early hiring spree that’s all but unprecedented. “You can’t get to a point where the polls are tight and say, ‘Oh, wow, we need to do some organizing,’” said Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s director of state campaigns and political engagement. “These organizing relation- ships will create a sense of urgency to let people know why we have to do this work now.” In Iowa, Clinton now has at least 27 paid organizers – three times as many as any of the dozen or so Republicans in the race. Her campaign has hired at least one staff member in every state, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories. She has two regional directors in California and has even put one person on the payroll in Wyoming, a state that has not voted for a Democratic nom- inee in more than 50 years. The effort isn’t cheap: Senior campaign aides have set a goal of raising $100 mil- lion to pay for Clinton’s pri- mary campaign. While Clinton has so far limited her campaign ap- pearances to the first four states to vote and mostly private fundraisers, her cam- paign has organized 320 house parties – attracting al- most 11,000 people in the 46 other states and the District of Columbia. This weekend, the day after Clinton gives the first major speech of her campaign, her appear- ance at an event in Iowa will be streamed to a party in every congressional district nationwide. “At this point, it’s more about finding people and getting them involved then convincing them to back Clinton,” said Hogan, as the group of students, re- tirees, and local activists began to filter into the office Tuesday night. The meeting was the fourth the Indiana native had organized in the state, in- cluding one in Minneapolis that attracted 200 partici- pants. “There’s benefits to a place like Minnesota,” he said. “It’s got a ton of Democratic energy and people are really engaged.” Clinton’s campaign staff takes great pains to keep a focus on the primary cam- paign, insisting they take nothing for granted despite a lead in early polls over Sanders and a few others that often approaches 50 percentage points. Should the Democratic race become competitive, Minnesota – voting on Super Tuesday in the first set of primaries after the first four states – could be decisive. But if not, and Minnesota appears likely to vote as it has since 1972 for the Democratic nominee, the sup- porters Hogan is organizing now will become a valuable resource to raise funds, make calls and travel to neigh- boring battleground states such as Iowa and Wisconsin. The staff working now in deep blue states such as Minnesota will be redeployed to battleground states at the end of June, with the goal of having built an engaged volunteer networks to orga- nize small dollar fundraisers and make sure Clinton is represented at local events, like parades and festivals, into the fall. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks at the Economic Council in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday. - Photo: AP Steph Luger of Minneapolis photographs the group of future volunteers at the end of a meeting at the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) headquarters in Mankato, Minn., Tuesday. - Photo: APNext >