BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Bodden Town MLA Alva Suckoo said Friday that he “was not attacking anyone for their sexuality” during a two-hour Legislative Assembly debate earlier this month in which members discussed the defi nition of marriage. “I do not condone discrimination of any kind, including against homosexuals, and [Cayman Islands Human Rights Commission Chairman James] Austin-Smith needs to stop sensationalizing the issue … as he seems to have a political agenda in my opinion,” Mr. Suckoo said in an emailed response to Cayman Compass questions. “I apologize to anyone who may have been offended by my remarks. It was not my intention, nor will it ever be, to use lan- guage which some may fi nd offensive.” KELSEY JUKAM kjukam@pinnaclemedialtd.com The organizer of a lecture series on les- bian, gay, bisexual and transgender and gender rights in the Cayman Islands has responded to critical remarks made by Bodden Town MLA Anthony Eden during a recent meeting of the Legislative Assembly. During his presentation on a motion to maintain the defi nition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, Mr. Eden criticized the lecture series, which took place in January at the Truman Bodden Law School. Olivia Connolly, president of the Truman Bodden Law School Student Society, was the lead organizer of the lecture series. She says she was not surprised that the lecture series was brought up during High of 90 Low of 81 Smooth to slight with wave heights less than 2 feet. THE WASHINGTON POST Unlikely allies ESTABLISHED 1965 www.caymancompass.com – 50 CENTS – MONDAY AUGUST 24, 2015 SEVEN MILE BEACH WATERFRONT WALKERS ROAD TOWN CENTRE PLAZA SEVEN MILE BEACH WATERFRONT WALKERS ROAD TOWN CENTRE PLAZA ABCDE NATIONAL WEEKLY Worst Week Hillary Clinton 3 Politics Trying to ‘repeal and replace’ 4 Military Gunning for Army deal 16 5 Myths About yoga 23 Unlikely allies A bipartisan push for sentencing reform unites President Obama and the Koch brothers, but many are still waiting behind bars PAGE 12 THE WEEK OF SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015. IN COLLABORATIO N WITH Same-sex marriage debate continues MLA Suckoo denies ‘hate speech,’ apologizesOrganizers defend LGBT lecture series Burglaries skewing Cayman crime numbers BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Burglary offenses in the Cayman Islands are being committed at the rate of nearly two per day and are largely overshadowing what police sta- tistics show has been a signifi cant drop in vio- lent crime during the past fi ve years, a Cayman Compass analysis of crime numbers has revealed. Break-ins reported to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service between 2012 and 2014 have almost doubled in three years and are con- tinuing to trouble local police this year. In 2010, the number of burglaries for the year totaled fewer than 600. Last year, the number of bur- glaries was above 700. The resulting crime statistics for the years, due to the sheer number of burglaries compared to the rest of the crimes, showed a 20 percent increase in what the RCIPS considered “serious crime” be- tween 2010 and 2014. However, removing burglaries and attempted burglaries from the total of serious crimes and the remainder of the “serious” criminal offenses recorded by police actually fell during the period. Serious crimes include home invasions, major assaults, rapes, robberies, wounding, attempted murder, murder and attempted robbery. A total of 64 robberies were reported to po- lice in 2010. In 2011, there were 67 robberies reported in the Cayman Islands. In 2014, there were 47 for the year. Reports of serious assaults, called grievous PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » Free diver Jan Feik places a fl ower on the water over the wreck of the Kittiwake Saturday as he and other divers prepare to take part in a memorial dive in honor of world champion free diver Natalia Molchanova. - PHOTO: NINA BAXA EDITORIAL | PAGE 4 FALLOUT SPREADS FROM MR. EDEN’S INTEMPERATE REMARKS PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 6 » NORMA CONNOLLY nconnolly@pinnaclemedialtd.com Free divers in Grand Cayman paid tribute Saturday to champion free diver Natalia Molchanova who went missing during a dive this month in Ibiza, Spain, and is presumed dead. Seventeen local free divers, who dive without breathing apparatus, dedicated their dives on the Kittiwake wreck in Ms. Molchanova’s honor, after a memorial gathering on board a DiveTech boat. Ms. Molchanova, 53, from Russia, was considered the world’s most accomplished free diver. Emma Nicholsby from DiveTech, who organized the dive, read a dedica- tion as well as a poem, “The Depth,” by Ms. Molchanova, who wrote poetry. The divers then placed fl owers on the water in memory of Ms. Molchanova, who set 41 world records and claimed 23 world championship titles. They then dropped into the water and, each on a single breath, dived down to the wreck, the bottom of which sits 60 Free divers honor missing champion2 LOCAL NEWS Monday august 24, 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. *Additional charges will apply per 3D ticket requested. $8.00 - MONDAY - HITMAN: AGENT 47 (R) 1:00 | 3:30 | 7:00 | 9:55 MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E (PG13) 6:40 I 9:50 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (PG13) 12:55 | 3:50 | 6:50 | 9:45 FANTASTIC FOUR (PG13) 12:50 | 4:00 THE GIFT (R) 1:15 | 3:45 | 7:30 | 10:00 STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (R) 3:15 I 6:40 I 9:30 ANT-MAN 3D (PG13) 12:30 Honduran tourism of- ficials Friday identified the woman who fell off a cruise ship five miles from Roatan, Honduras as it sailed for Grand Cayman, the Associated Press reports. Carol Ann Dimas, 65, from San Jose, California went overboard Wednesday, according to Honduran and U.S. media. Emilio Silvestri, press di- rector for the Honduran Tourism Institute, said in a press conference Friday that the navy and Red Cross searched for Ms. Dimas for five hours, but the Carnival- owned cruise ship found her body Thursday. The Carnival Glory was nearing the end of a seven- day cruise when Ms. Dimas went overboard, according to the ship’s itinerary. The Glory was scheduled to stop in George Town Thursday, but did not come to Grand Cayman. Honduran media re- port the Miami-based ship transported Ms. Dimas’s body back to the United States. The Associated Press re- ports that Honduran offi- cials would not give details on how Ms. Dimas fell from the ship. This is the second pas- senger to go overboard from the Carnival Glory this year. In March a 54-year-old man fell from the ship off the coast of Mexico. James Whittaker jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com One of the men accused of robbing Blackbeard’s li- quor store has claimed he was asleep in his friend’s bedroom at the time of the raid. Bron Webb insisted it was he and not his co-ac- cused Andrew Lopez that was telling the truth when he appeared in Grand Court on Friday. Webb is charged along with Lopez and Randy Connor of an armed robbery at the liquor store on Dec. 17 last year. The trio were arrested, along with another man, at Lopez’s house in Prospect shortly after the holdup. A shotgun was recovered from the home, along with bank cards and cash. Lopez and Webb have told conflicting stories about what they were doing at the time of the robbery. On Friday, Webb de- nied he had anything to do with the raid, claiming he had been sleeping in Lopez’s bedroom at the time and only awoke when he heard the shouts of police officers outside. He told the court he had called on Lopez to get some cash his friend had arranged to give him. He said they talked for a few minutes and may have had a beer and a smoke before Lopez left, saying he could “chill” in his room while he was gone. Lopez claimed, during his testimony earlier in the week, that he had been in his room with his girlfriend for part of the time the robbery took place. Under cross-exami- nation from Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryll Richards, Webb acknowl- edged that both stories could not be true. He said Lopez had not been in the room with him. “I’m speaking the truth and Mr. Lopez is not,” he said. Webb accepted that he had tried to hide behind a vehicle when armed of- ficers arrived at Lopez’s home, saying he had done so because he was scared of police. He accepted he was wearing green underpants when he was arrested. Shown CCTV footage of the liquor store robbery, he denied that he was the man wearing a white shirt, with green under- pants visible in the video. He insisted he had played no role in the robbery, “That is a silly crime I would not commit,” he added. The trial continues on Monday. Two deny George Town murder Two men denied killing 20-year-old Jason Powery in central George Town on July 1 when they appeared in Grand Court on Friday. Justin Ramoon and Osbourne Douglas also denied possession of a firearm during the brief hearing. The pair have been charged with killing Mr. Powery, from West Bay, who was found shot in the head outside the Globe Bar, off Martin Drive. West Bay rape case in court A man denied breaking into a woman’s home in West Bay and raping her. Appearing in Grand Court via video link from Northward Prison on Friday, Andre Antonio Chase entered not guilty pleas to separate charges of rape and aggravated burglary in relation to the incident on July 23. He is accused of using a knife and stealing a wallet during the break- in. Chase was remanded in custody and a trial date was set provision- ally for Dec. 8. Firearm charge denied Jose Sanchez denied possession of an unli- censed firearm during a brief appearance at Grand Court on Friday. Sanchez is charged with being in possession of a 9mm semi-automatic pistol at the Everglo bar in Bodden Town on July 4. He was remanded in custody and the case was set for mention on Aug. 28. Caribbean Bakery robbery denied A man has denied rob- bing a bakery using a flare gun. Dan Kelly appeared in Grand Court on Friday to enter a not guilty plea to the Sept. 2010 robbery at Caribbean Bakery. He also denied a charge of possession of an imitation firearm during the raid. A trial date has been set for Nov. 23. Naked swimmer taken to hospital A woman took off all of her clothes in central George Town Friday after- noon and went for a swim in the harbor, according to police. Witnesses say she climbed over the sea wall opposite the Coe Centre, removing her clothes be- fore getting in the water. She came back out of the water about 10 minutes later, put her clothes back on and walked away. Police say they re- sponded to a call from North Church Street, lo- cated the woman and took her to the hospital. Cubans land in Brac Immigration and police officials say 47 Cuban mi- grants landed on the Brac Thursday afternoon. The Cuban nationals were moved to the Immigration Detention Centre on Grand Cayman and will be repatriated to Cuba. The migrants landed in a wooden boat Thursday afternoon, though there’s no word why they decided to come ashore. Late last month al- most 50 Cuban migrants were sent back by plane to Havana. They had arrived in four different groups in June. Cuban migrants are permitted to pass through Cayman waters, but those who land in the Cayman Islands are detained and repatriated to Cuba. Woman arrested for ganja at courthouse Police say they caught a woman with suspected ganja while doing a security check at the entrance to the courthouse Wednesday. The 53-year-old West Bay woman was arrested at 10:45 a.m. Aug. 19 on suspicion of ganja posses- sion and later bailed. Cruise tourist falls overboard, dies en route to Cayman Defendant says he slept during robbery Court briefs PoliCe briefs Charles DunCan cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com A 51-year-old man suf- fered several broken bones after losing control of his minivan and crashing on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway Friday night, ac- cording to police. Just after 11 p.m., emer- gency services responded to the one-car accident near the Lakeside Villas. Police say they found a man lying in the road unconscious, with debris from the crash scat- tered across the road. Royal Cayman Islands Police Service Chief Inspector Frank Owens said Saturday, “He is conscious with broken bones, [his] in- juries are not believed to be life threatening.” He re- mained in the Cayman Islands Hospital’s critical care unit under observation as of press time Sunday. According to police, the man lost control of his Mazda Premacy minivan and hit a lightpole. The minivan flipped and came to a stop on the other side of the road. The man was the only person in the car at the time of the accident. The accident knocked over the Caribbean Utilities Company pole and shat- tered the “For heaven’s sake, don’t overtake!” sign. The sign was one of two put up in 2008 after a series of ac- cidents involving people trying to pass other cars on the two-lane road. One of the signs was stolen in 2013 and never replaced. Police closed the road for several hours after the accident. the rCiPs asks that any witnesses contact the George town police station at 949-4222. Man injured in single-car crash A friday night accident knocked over a lightpole and the ‘for heaven’s sake, don’t overtake!’ sign on the esterley tibbetts Highway. - Photo: Charles DunCan3 LOCAL NEWS Cayman Compass • Monday august 24, 2015 Today, Camana Bay welcomes new and returning students to Cayman International School’s 2015-16 academic year. As the students begin a new chapter, a young Royal Poinciana begins its own journey of growth. The recently planted tree is part of a new annual tradition that is both supportive of our environmental sustainability and representative of the blossoming education of our youth. Sponsored by Dart, the tree is a visual reminder of the promise of a bright future. We wish all students and faculty an outstanding school year. HELLO STUDENTS, HELLO TREE Remittance companies will only take U.S. dollars starting Monday Charles DunCan cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com Cash transfer compa- nies, facing a Tuesday dead- line, have not found a new bank or made a new deal with Cayman National. But a Jamaica National Money Services representative said over the weekend that the company will be able to con- tinue offering services for people who need to send cash overseas. JN Money Services re- leased a statement Friday saying that Jamaica National, MoneyGram and Quick Cash will only accept U.S. dollars as of Monday in Cayman. JN Money Services managing director Leesa Kow said the move to U.S. currency will allow the cash transfer services to stay open. “We have also taken this decision in light of the changing environ- ment, which has affected ac- cess to banking services for money transfer operators in Cayman,” she said in a written statement. Cash transfer companies like JN, which also services MoneyGram, have been scrambling to find a new bank in the Cayman Islands since Cayman National Bank decided to stop of- fering banking services for the transfers. The news follows the sudden clo- sure of Western Union last month when the board of that company’s local bank, Fidelity Bank, decided the business was too risky and shut the operations down in Cayman, Turks and Caicos, and the Bahamas. Jamaica National spokesman Gareth Manning wrote in an email, “The dis- cussions with CNB and the Cayman authorities continue and there are measures in place to maintain services to customers.” He did not say how those services will con- tinue without a bank in the Cayman Islands. Cayman National was the only bank in Cayman to continue to provide corre- spondent banking services to cash transfer companies after Fidelity Bank stopped offering Western Union ser- vices in July. Remittance ser- vices like Western Union and MoneyGram transfer cash around the world for cus- tomers, and need a local bank to take the cash and facilitate wire transfers. The bulk of the transfers are remittances by people living overseas and sending money back to their home countries to support their families. Cayman National has re- peatedly declined to comment on the ongoing talks with the cash transfer companies. Fidelity Bank’s Cayman CEO Brett Hill told the Cayman Compass last month that the cash transfer business has become in- creasingly risky, with new regulations in the United States and Europe, and profits have gone down from increased competition. “It’s been an increas- ingly marginal business for us,” he said. Dropping the cash transfer service signif- icantly reduces the bank’s risk of unwittingly helping move money for illegal ac- tivities like drug smuggling or terrorism. People in Cayman sent almost $180 million off is- land as remittances in 2014, according to data tracked by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. About $110 million of last year’s total went to Jamaica. Robert Hamaty, a JN Money Transfer board member and president of Tortuga Rum Company, said cash transfer services are essential for many in the Cayman Islands. “You can’t have the population here in Cayman without a way to send money back,” he said. CIMA and the Financial Services Ministry have been helping facilitate discussions between the money transfer companies and the bank. The parties met two weeks ago in what Jamaica National Building Society general manager Earl Jarrett called “very productive” talks. In a statement late last month, Financial Services Minister Wayne Panton said, “While any commercial deci- sions regarding money-ser- vices businesses are a matter for the businesses and the banks to make themselves, Government and CIMA are arranging these discussions in order to address concerns on both sides, with the aim of ensuring that options re- main open to consumers.” Despite deadline, cash transfers will continue Police: One arrested in GT attempted murder Woman denies $1m security centre theft Police say a man was attacked with a ma- chete on a beach in George Town. Responding to a distur- bance call just before 2:30 a.m. Friday, officers found a 25-year-old with a ma- chete wound to the face on the beach just south of Treasure Island. They transported him to the Cayman Islands Hospital, where he was treated and later released. A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspi- cion of attempted murder after turning himself in at George Town Police Station later on Friday morning. Both men are from East End, police said, and officers believe the as- sault is related to a do- mestic dispute. James Whittaker jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com A woman denied stealing nearly US$1 million from The Security Centre Ltd. when she appeared in Grand Court on Friday. Patti Jane Ebanks, a former employee at the secu- rity firm, entered not guilty pleas on 23 counts of theft, forgery, making false docu- ments and transferring crim- inal property. A trial date has been set for March 16 next year. Ebanks is charged with theft of US$937,592.62 be- tween April 1, 2010 and June 1, 2013. She is also charged with concealing or disguising property which represents benefit from criminal con- duct, namely US$710,019.80 in funds stolen from the Security Centre between those same dates. Additionally, 48-year- old Ebanks is facing 14 charges in connection with allegations that she made out checks worth a total of around US$35,000 to an- other individual without proper authority. She is also charged with seven counts of forging checks. Ebanks was released on bail.Megan Mcardle If you want to understand American elections, read a comic book. Now, you will not learn much about how politics happens. Politics does not have clear villains or de- cisive, powerful action. Politics muddles along on a heavily adulterated biofuel composed of interpersonal favor-trading, compromised ideology, soul-sucking proce- duralism, and ponderous in- terest-group mobilization. But elections – that is where your back issues of Action Comics will come in handy. They tell you a lot about what voters think. Voters rally to get a candi- date elected, then call on the politician to stop technolog- ical change from tanking the local economy, to give them much more generous health- care at half the cost of what- ever they’ve currently got, to cut their taxes without touching Social Security or Medicare because they earned those benefits, to pro- vide large new entitlements paid for entirely by taxing hedge fund managers, to re- form the education system so that all the students will be above average, to defuse con- flict in the Middle East and maybe leap some tall build- ings in a single bound. You know, the usual. Time passes. These voters notice that these things have not been done. Obviously, they have elected the wrong superhero. It is time to stop messing around with Squirrel Girl and Jack of Hearts and elect Superman, already. So the story starts all over again. The tendency of American voters to treat political prob- lems as if they were occur- ring in an alternate universe was first noted during the Iraq war debate by Matthew Yglesias, now executive editor of the Vox website. Yglesias coined the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics, in which the U.S. military has unlimited powers if only it is wielded by someone with suf- ficient will. What we need, in other words, is not some image- conscious politician who is going to assemble some half-hearted compromise by horse-trading with various interest groups; instead, we need a hero with the will to make things happen, perhaps bolstered by a patriotic band of citizens who will stand be- hind him caring their little hearts out. Unfortunately, this is not a very good description of the real world. And when all the caring and the willing fails, people start talking crazy. Faced with the unhappy re- ality that their desired out- comes are simply not achiev- able in the current political landscape, they embrace ex- treme, destructive measures that have no chance of suc- ceeding. The only thing that can be said for many of these ideas is that they haven’t been tried yet. The same can be said for picking up this fork I happen to have sitting next to me and jamming it into my brain stem. Let’s look past what seems to be motivating voters. The goals they have in mind aren’t illegitimate: to see value in a lower level of immigration, to wish that Asian markets were as open to our goods as ours are to theirs, or to think that more should be done to prevent people from entering this country illegally. But Trump’s supporters seem to think that he will somehow escape the con- straints that have prevented other politicians from ad- dressing those priorities, be- cause finally here we have a candidate with sufficient will and imagination to unleash the full powers of the presi- dential Green Lantern ring. End birthright citizenship! Get Mexico to pay to build a wall! Force companies to build more stuff here! How? By being really tough. Don’t ask for details. That might work in elec- tions. But then politics is all details. And each of those tiny little details has to be endlessly negotiated, because the system is set up precisely to frustrate a powerful guy with a big idea. You may re- call your middle school so- cial studies teacher talking about “checks and balances.” This is what that looks like. Kryptonite, if you will. So there is no shortcut around the long days spent debating whether the tax credit should be 3.45 per- cent or 3.65 percent, and drafting pages of legislation that amend some obscure subclause of the immigra- tion code to read “that” rather than “which,” and ending up with a middling, pork-riddled program that costs too much and doesn’t do anything close to what its visionary propo- nents promised. Governing is not like building a building; it’s not like running a business. It’s like, well, trying to herd three branches of government in roughly the same direction. These branches are com- posed of thousands of people, each with their own agenda, and represents millions more, each with their own agenda, and will hound out of office anyone who strays too far from it. This is a wildly pon- derous and inefficient way to do anything, which is why I am a libertarian; almost anything can be done better when you’re not trying to build it by a committee. But in a representative democracy, this is what we have. There is no superhero strong enough to overcome the villain. There is actu- ally not even a villain to defeat, only the unslayable amoeboid agglomeration of 300 million citizens’ worth of unenlightened self-in- terest. In the immortal words of P.J. O’Rourke: “Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.” Megan McArdle is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes on economics, business and public policy. © 2015, Bloomberg View Voters seeking change are disappointed every time The islands’ most-trusted news source 4 Anthony Eden’s remarks on the floor of the Legisla- tive Assembly regarding homosexuality could not have been more ill-conceived – but they were also ill-timed. Today, the United Nations Security Council is holding its first meeting dedicated to the persecution of those in the LGBT community. The meeting follows President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Kenya (where homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years in prison). Mr. Obama publicly told the Kenyan president, “The state should not discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation. The idea that they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong. Full stop.” Many of us on the day of Mr. Eden’s mid-summer, mid-week monologue, frankly, never saw it coming. Even at the Cayman Compass, where we pay attention to all matters in the Legislative Assembly, had no premoni- tion of what was to disrupt a relatively placid Wednesday news day. We do, however, at all times keep a newsroom televi- sion tuned to the government channel which broadcasts live the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, and a growing group of reporters and editors quickly gathered round. Soon all of us were transfixed. We were not the only ones; in no time, what a decade or so ago would have been a local story was being recounted in blogs and other “immediate media” around the world. It appears that Mr. Eden did not take into account how his words might reverberate beyond our borders and offend, in particular, a large and sensitive segment of tourists – the homosexual community – who daily visit our shores and routinely are welcomed and treated well here. Moses Kirkconnell, our minister of tourism, has been mum on Mr. Eden’s remarks, but we cannot imagine he was pleased. Pity our poor premier, Alden McLaughlin, who, perhaps not courageously but possibly wisely, absented himself from both the debate and the vote on Mr. Eden’s resolution (which reaffirmed the Constitutional protection that marriage in the Cayman Islands was between a man and a woman). Now Mr. McLaughlin and the Progressives party he leads have a problem he probably didn’t foresee and certainly doesn’t welcome. Because the Progressives- led government is a patchwork of dissimilar representa- tives from diverse districts (united more by convenience than conviction), he somehow must find a way to keep harmony among disagreeing, and sometimes disagree- able, members. This will not be easy. Bodden Town, not for the first time, presents the chal- lenge. As everyone knows, Mr. Eden is the senior (and popular) representative from that district. Nevertheless, a junior member of the Bodden Town delegation, Wayne Panton, has now stepped forward to take issue with his colleague’s remarks. Another Bodden Town member, Alva Suckoo, (who seconded Mr. Eden’s motion), has issued a statement, in effect supporting Mr. Eden but apologizing to, well, everybody if he has offended anyone. Mr. Suckoo took particular umbrage at the Human Rights Commission and, in particular, its chairman, James Austin-Smith. The Commission on Thursday issued a statement condemning the use of elected office “to peddle inaccurate, vitriolic and thoroughly hateful infor- mation” concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans- gender community. If this were not enough, Olivia Connolly, the organizer of a lecture series on gender rights held in January, on Friday disseminated an open letter defending the focus of the series. Ms. Connolly, who is president of the Truman Bodden Law School Student Society, is the daughter of Cayman Governor Helen Kilpatrick, who spoke at the conference. Because this is such a contentious, and momentous, issue, it is tempting, but unwise, to conflate Mr. Eden’s position on gay marriage, which is defensible, with his inflammatory rhetoric, which is not. – EDITORIAL – Fallout spreads from Mr. Eden’s intemperate remarks Opinion&Letters The Cayman Compass welcomes comments, opinions and viewpoints from readers. 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DRIVE THRU OPEN LATE FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS UNTIL 1AM AT SEVEN MILE BEACH Now serving you from 2 locations: Savannah and Seven Mile Beach Triathlete helps literacy projects Ron ShillingfoRd rshillingford@pinnaclemedialtd.com A local triathlete has just finished the first of five ex- tremely challenging sporting events to raise funds for lit- eracy projects in Cayman and Guatemala. Chris Bailey has created for himself the 640 Challenge, a series of tough events to complete by the end of the year. The distance from Cayman to Guatemala is 640 miles, hence the name. The funds he raises will help two programs; the LIFE program – Literacy Is For Everyone – based in Grand Cayman with the goal of sup- porting people of all ages to read and gain learning they would otherwise not get, and the Guatemala Literacy project. Mr. Bailey took a trip to Guatemala in January through the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman to see what the club’s involvement was there. “Simply put, it’s amazing,” he said. “Truly breaking the cycle of poverty through ed- ucation.” Mr. Bailey is paying for all his own travel and event costs. He has raised just over $7,000 so far and would love to get more than $20,000 and share it equally with the projects. “I’m looking for any com- panies who would like to sponsor $1 per mile,” Mr. Bailey said. The first part of the challenge was finished last Tuesday. It was an epic cycle ride in the U.S. from one end of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia to the other end in North Carolina, a total of 470 miles. Fellow cyclists Stuart Bray and Piers Dryden also tackled the route and they used Velo Girl Rides as the support crew. It was a series of tor- turous uphill climbs for 10 hours a day, which really sap the legs and energy, leaving Mr. Bailey sore all over. The fact that he had multiple bike problems at the start of the third day and had to switch to one too small for his large frame made completing the ride abso- lute agony. When the desire to quit overwhelmed him, thinking of the good causes he was helping kept him motivated, he said. The ride took four days to complete. His next challenge is the Chicago Marathon in October, followed by the Miami Half Ironman only two weeks later. A half Ironman is a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, topped off with a half mara- thon run of 13.1 miles. So far, he has done only one sprint triathlon, and the Cayman half marathon last year in two hours. Then it’s back to Cayman for the Pedal to the Point, a cycle ride and race from the Turtle Farm to Rum Point. The 37-year-old Englishman from Birmingham is vice president of CML Offshore. His wife Kym is one of Cayman’s fastest long- distance runners and she is doing the Chicago Marathon too. “But we have to train separately as she is too quick! “The first ride was hard but I love cycling. The mara- thon is going to hurt.” Finally, he tackles the Cayman Islands half mara- thon on Dec. 6 to complete his 640 miles. “This is no easy feat and I almost didn’t finish part one as there were mechanical failures and medical issues to be overcome,” Mr. Bailey said. “Needless to say, with the support I received, we were able to achieve the chal- lenge and now we look for- ward to the next one.” To follow Mr. Bailey’s progress, go to www.facebook.com/640challenge To donate, go to: www.razoo. com/story/640challenge. Chris Bailey has created for himself the 640 Challenge, a series of tough events to complete by the end of the year. Chris Bailey grabs rest when and where he can during the U.S. ride. - PHOTO: SUBMITTED Chris Bailey used the third Stroke & Stride event as a training session. - PHOTO: RON SHILLINGFORDThe islands’ most-trusted news source 6 Monday august 24, 2015 • Cayman Compass Kurt Randolph takes the helm. - PHOTOs: RICHARD WHITCOMBE No tank, no regulator, no BCD – Nina Baxa slips through the window of the Kittiwake’s wheelhouse.Free divers float above the Kittiwake as one diver heads down to the deck of the ship. - PHOTO: NINA BAXA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 feet below, with some gliding through the giant ship’s cor- ridors and swim-throughs and others swimming by its exterior or resting on the seabed floor. Ms. Nicholsby said free divers who train at DiveTech were familiar with Ms. Molchanova and her many achievements. “Because we are teaching the course, we show the stu- dents the different disciplines in free diving,” she said. “[Free diving association] AIDA lists the world records and they can see that she holds all the main records.” She said students are very interested in Ms. Molchanova, who was seen as a major in- spiration for free divers. “She was in her 50s. She came to the sport late, she started in her 40s,” Ms. Nicholsby said. “She tried to break a new re- cord on her birthday every year to highlight her age and the fact that you can start the sport at any age.” Ms. Nicholsby put out a call to free divers to take part in the memorial event after the news of Ms. Molchanova’s disappearance broke. She said all the spots on board the boat filled up in a day. Ms. Molchanova had been doing a recreational dive on Aug. 2 off the coast of Formentera, an island near Ibiza, off the east coast of Spain. An extensive, three-day search was launched after she failed to resurface, but her body was not recovered. “When someone impor- tant in this sport dies, I think people should be aware,” Ms. Nicholsby said. “It is very important to have people trained in free diving. We get people going out and trying it for fun who are not aware of the risks. “The main reason we teach the course is so people can learn about the safety proce- dures and the buddy system and shallow water blackouts. People don’t know the signs and symptoms [of shallow water blackouts] and how to recover someone from it.” Ms. Molchanova’s record dive without the use of fins was about 233 feet, which she set in May in Dahab, Egypt. She could hold her breath for nine minutes. Free divers honor missing champion7 LOCAL NEWS Cayman Compass • Monday august 24, 2015 September 5th, 2015 M / F U12, 12-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60+; Pram & Pet Register online: www.caymanactive.com/fidelityfunrun 7:30 a.m. on Walkers Rd opposite the former John Gray High School Divisions: September 12th, 2015 September 19th, 2015 FidelityH EA LT H WALKTHIS WAY! GR A ND CA YM AN 201 5 GR A ND CA YM A N 201 5 Join us at the Fidelity fun run series YOU TALKED, VACATION CANCELLED WE LISTENED. IS STAYING OPEN! WILL BE CLOSING From August 31st Reopening October 9th Students bound for UK network at Gov’t House Tad SToner tstoner@pinnaclemedialtd.com A recent reception drew 50 people, mostly current and former students, to the Governor’s House to mingle and network, joined by Premier Alden McLaughlin, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson and Minister of Education Tara Rivers. The reception was the first of its kind for many of the at- tendees, and only the second for Cayman Connection UK, a 200-member organization combining the efforts and roster of the Cayman Islands London Office and “Friends of Cayman,” a U.K.-based club chaired by former Governor John Owen. The Aug. 14 gathering – sponsored by law firm Mourant Ozannes – brought together a network of stu- dents planning to attend university in the U.K., stu- dents already studying there, affiliated professionals and politicians. Mourant Partner Hector Robinson delivered the wel- coming speech, followed by ad- dresses from Mr. Manderson and Cayman student ambas- sadors Melanie Ebanks and Donovon Kellyman, who de- scribed the confidence gained by meeting other Caymanians at U.K. universities and the help provided by the two London organizations. Student ambassador Whitney General, a fourth- year student in medicine at the University of Bristol, said the evening proved suc- cessful, offering a chance to mix with old friends and newcomers. “I spoke to quite a few new students who asked about a lot of general things,” she said, “and it was a good eve- ning. I didn’t know a lot of the people from here, but it’s really good to know who the other Caymanians are.” Ms. General said she was the only Caymanian at her university. “Often, you are the only person at your school, so it’s good to meet others, to know you’re not really alone. You can hear the accents and share experiences.” CCUK’s Facebook page re- mains a vital link for the stu- dents, enabling new arrivals in London to contact others al- ready present, seeking advice, reassurance and friendship. “We try to get per- sonal experiences from ev- eryone,” said Kate Kandiah, among the founders of CCUK, and formerly part of the Department of Tourism London Office and staffer at the official Cayman Islands Government Office. “We had a good cross sec- tion of people at the recep- tion – old students, new stu- dents, a lot of interaction. I met a lot of people who are going over there. “No one got any fabulous jobs – not yet, but we were very happy with the way it all went,” she said. Ms. Kandiah said she was “extremely grateful” for the support of the Governor’s Office, the Cayman govern- ment, Friends of Cayman and the private sector. “This network not only helps the students when they are far from home,” she said, “but also spreads positive en- dorsements of the Cayman Islands in the international arena from a wide group of people who are proud of, and passionate about, their homeland.” Melanie EbanksDonovon Kellyman Registration begins today for the National Gallery’s “Walkers Art Club,” an initiative spon- sored by Walkers Global. Now in its eleventh year, space will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The program offers six free weekly art classes to children living in Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac. It follows a year-long curriculum designed to supplement learning arts in school and to introduce students to local and in- ternational art, the gallery said in a statement. There are 20 spaces available for each of the four “Walkers Art Club” programs, and students will need to commit to the full year to be accepted. Prospective students will be placed on a waiting list after spaces fill up, or- ganizers said. The four programs are “Walkers Art Club Primary Grand Cayman” for ages 7-9; “Walkers Art Club Primary Cayman Brac” for ages 7-12; “Walkers Art Club Secondary” for ages 10-12; and “Walkers Art Club Teens” for GCSE and CXC examination support. Classes are scheduled to resume the week of Sept. 14. “Walkers Art Club Preschoolers and Parents,” run as a weekly drop-in ses- sion on Fridays at 10:30 a.m., and “Walkers Art Club Lighthouse,” run on Tuesdays, will also resume that week. Forms can be picked up from the National Gallery or downloaded from its website. For more details, email education@nationalgallery.org. ky or call Kerwin Ebanks at 945-8111. Registration begins for ‘Walkers Art Club’ A student at last year’s art camp works at one of her creations.The islands’ most-trusted news source 8 discussion on the motion, but she was surprised “at the manner in which it was referred to.” During his remarks to the government, Mr. Eden was said he was “re- ally bothered” by the con- tent of one lecture in par- ticular, given by King’s College London professor Robert Wintemute. In his lecture, Mr. Wintemute told the au- dience that the Cayman Islands is 14 years be- hind the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, which it must comply with. He noted that there is no anti-dis- crimination legislation on the basis of sexual orien- tation, that the age of con- sent for sexual activity is unequal, and there is no civil partnership or other legal representation of same-sex marriage. Mr. Wintemute said during his lecture that the issues the series deals with concern “the lives of real people” in the Cayman Islands, estimating that 2 percent of the population is lesbian or gay. “If you think of your 50 closest friends, within that group there might be one lesbian or gay member,” Mr. Wintemute said. “So I think that’s the thing to remember, that we’re not talking about abstract homosexuals out there who are a threat to so- ciety; you’re talking about your family members and your friends.” Mr. Eden told the Legislative Assembly that he thinks “the focus of some of these people that come here,” in reference to the lawyers at the lec- ture, did not align with Caymanian concerns or values. He said it “blew” his mind that Mr. Wintemute suggested that the age of consent for homosexual sexual activity should be lowered from 18 to 16, to make it equal with the age of consent for heterosexual sexual activity. “I’ve heard enough about the European Convention to last my life- time,” Mr. Eden said. Ms. Connolly said the intention of the lecture se- ries was to provide an ac- ademic platform and de- bate, and she thinks it is a “shame that our choice of topic was criticized in the Legislative Assembly of all places, it being a place … symbolic of democracy in the Cayman Islands.” “I think it is concerning that a student initia- tive which provoked a re- view of legislation should be met with hostility by someone elected to repre- sent the views and listen to the concerns of others,” Ms. Connolly added. She disseminated a letter to the members of the media last week defending the focus of the series. Although she does not reference Mr. Eden’s pre- sentation in her letter, she states that it has “been suggested by a (high-pro- file) minority that the focus of this lecture series may have been misplaced.” “The choice of topic does not indicate a lack of guid- ance,” Ms. Connolly said in the letter. “On the contrary, it was very prescient of the Student Society to have an- ticipated issues that the Cayman Islands are now facing as a result of the re- cent ECtHR’s [European Court of Human Rights] de- cision, requiring member states to offer more legal protection to same sex cou- ples, omnisciently foreshad- owed by Professor Robert Wintemute’s first lecture.” In a passage underlined for emphasis in the letter, Ms. Connolly said that the lecture series “prompted a mature public debate” about LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands. “I believe that the criti- cism of the lecture series and hostility to open debate is concerning in and of itself, notwithstanding the more substantive issue of the pain and anguish that has been caused to the Island’s LGBT community by those com- ments,” she said. Monday august 24, 2015 • Cayman Compass Burglaries skewing Cayman crime numbers bodily harm in the Cayman Islands, went from 12 in 2010, to 28 in 2011, to just seven last year. The number of murders and attempted murders to occur in 2010 totaled 22. In 2014 it was 12. So far in 2015, the trend appears to be continuing as local police have noted their lowest number of violent crimes committed in the first six months during any of the previous five years. However, the number of burglaries – more than 320 in the first half of 2015 – served to increase “serious crime” recorded by the RCIPS during first half of 2015 by 14 percent. “Violent crime [serious crimes not including bur- glaries] … fell 24 percent,” the RCIPS noted in a state- ment. “There were 59 in- cidents total in these [vio- lent crime] categories, while during the first half of 2015 there were 45 incidents. “During the second quarter of 2015, a notice- able increase in incidents of burglary and attempted bur- glary elevated the number of overall serious crimes by 14 percent. Burglaries themselves increased by 16 percent in the first half of [2015].” RCIPS Chief Superintendent Kurt Walton said police responded to the increase in break-ins with a “steady pace of arrests.” “During the first six months, we arrested 76 people, up 12 percent from ar- rests during the same period last year,” Mr. Walton said. In one case investigated by police, the person arrested was believed to have been re- sponsible for 10 burglaries. It’s a common theme police have reported over the years: a spike in crimes following the release of “career” bur- glars from prison. “Burglary continues to be a stubborn problem for our society that will require more than just prevention and en- forcement to permanently re- duce,” Mr. Walton said. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 During his presentation on a motion to maintain the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, Mr. Eden criticized the lecture series, which took place in January at the Truman Bodden Law School. MLA Suckoo denies ‘hate speech,’ apologizes Organizers defend LGBT lecture series Contacted for further comment about his remarks in the House debate on a pri- vate members’ motion which sought to confirm the defini- tion of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, Bodden Town MLA Anthony Eden said he would not re- spond “at this time.” The two Bodden Town representatives, in particular, came under fire following the Aug. 13 debate on the mem- bers’ motion filed by Mr. Eden and seconded by Mr. Suckoo. The response to the MLAs’ comments intensified late last week when the Human Rights Commission issued a press release denouncing cer- tain statements made in the debate as “hate speech” and “threatening” to the local les- bian, gay, bisexual and trans- gender community. The statements that so en- raged Mr. Austin-Smith and commission members were mostly attributed to Mr. Eden – one of the longest-serving and most respected members of the Legislative Assembly. The statements included equating homosexuality with bestiality; equating homo- sexuality with pedophilia; claims that homosexual be- havior was “wicked and im- moral” and a “social and moral evil”; making personal threats of violence toward homosexuals; and suggesting that “crushing a baby’s skull and sucking their brains out had become a human right,” Mr. Austin-Smith alleged. In addition to the press release, Mr. Austin-Smith sent a two-page letter to Cayman Islands Premier Alden McLaughlin de- manding that Mr. McLaughlin reject the comments made by backbench members of his own Progressives polit- ical party and that the gov- ernment enact laws creating civil unions for the benefit of same-sex couples. The Human Rights Commission chairman gave Mr. McLaughlin a dead- line of seven days within which to do so. Neither Mr. McLaughlin nor representatives of his of- fice responded to repeated requests to comment on the issue sent by the Compass on Thursday and Friday. Mr. Suckoo, a first-term MLA, said his comments clarifying his stance in the debate were not an attempt to “distance himself” from his Bodden Town colleagues. “Mr. Eden made his points and I support and de- fend his right to do so on the floor of the house,” Mr. Suckoo said. “I also support and respect the Hon. Wayne Panton for his position and subsequent comments.” Mr. Panton, who did not participate in the House de- bate on Aug. 13, later made press statements indicating he did not support bullying and discrimination against members of Cayman’s ho- mosexual community. Mr. Austin-Smith congratulated Mr. Panton for his “bold and brave” comments. Mr. Suckoo also took issue with the Human Rights Commission’s “broad ac- cusations” concerning the Legislative Assembly debate and noted that the commis- sion appeared to be quite se- lective regarding the human rights causes it sought to champion. “Perhaps he can also write a letter about the growing issue of families losing their homes due to … the inability to secure employment because of the unscrupulous and illegal hiring practices of persons in the same industry that Mr. Austin-Smith has made his fortune,” Mr. Suckoo said. “Perhaps he can write a letter about the growing con- cerns that migrant workers and Caymanians are now living in substandard, un- healthy and inadequate housing …. Why doesn’t he write a letter about the high incidence of spousal abuse suffered by our women, or how foreign dead-beat fa- thers here as permanent res- idents have abandoned their Caymanian wives and chil- dren and left them to the mercy of the world after get- ting residency? “It is a bit suspicious that Mr. Austin-Smith now feels compelled to attack my par- liamentary privilege and is using this issue to do so when he has been quite silent on the much larger issues.” Mr. Austin-Smith said it was the commission’s objec- tive to encourage Cayman to change certain laws that may run it afoul of the European Convention on Human Rights. The letter sent to the pre- mier last week recommended that the government intro- duce legislation recognizing same-sex unions. Local laws currently forbid gay marriage but are silent regarding the formation of civil unions. The government was also urged to introduce laws to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Tropical Storm Danny weakens SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – Tropical Storm Danny weakened Sunday as it threatened to bring strong winds and rainfall to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. At midday, the center of the storm was located about 260 miles east of Marie-Galante, an island dependency of Guadeloupe. It was moving toward the west near 15 mph. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said it would move to west-northwest through Tuesday. Danny was expected to move near or over portions of the Leeward Islands late Sunday. Maximum sustained winds were near 50 mph with higher gusts. The storm was expected to lose strength. The hurricane center said tropical-storm-force winds were expected to af- fect Guadeloupe and nearby islands through late Sunday. Danny was forecast to pro- duce 2 inches to 4 inches of rain over the Leeward Islands, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico through Tuesday. Forecasters said the storm would become a tropical de- pression before reaching Puerto Rico, bringing little relief to the drought-stricken U.S. territory. Nearly 25 percent of Puerto Rico is considered to be in an extreme drought, and another 45 percent is under a severe one, according to The National Drought Mitigation Center. A total of 2.9 million people in Puerto Rico have been affected, and U.S. offi- cials have declared at least 20 of the island’s 78 munici- palities as disaster zones. U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp said officials were distributing sandbags and had opened shelters as a precaution. SAMe-Sex MArriAGe deBATe COnTinueSThe islands’ most-trusted news source 9 Lebanese march as trash piles up in Beirut Protesters returned to downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday to demand that the government resign over its inability to remove enormous heaps of garbage from the city’s streets. 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Authorities in Spain said he had lived in the country until last year and had a police re- cord for drug-dealing. Despite being on the radar in France, Spain and Belgium, he boarded an Amsterdam-to-Paris train on Friday as it stopped in Brussels, carrying a small ar- senal of weapons, including a Kalashnikov, an automatic Luger pistol and a box cutter. Three American friends, two of them U.S. servicemen, tackled him, and with the help of a British businessman tied him up. They are being feted as heroes in France and the U.S. El-Khazzani’s lawyer said he told her that he was not a terrorist. “He is dumbfounded that his action is being character- ized as terrorism,” said Sophie David, a lawyer in Arras, where the train was rerouted to arrest El-Khazzani – now being questioned outside Paris by anti-terrorism police. He described himself as homeless and David said she had “no doubt” this was true, saying he was “very, very thin” as if suffering from malnu- trition and “with a very wild look in his eyes.” “He thought of a hold-up to be able to feed himself, to have money,” she said on BFM-TV, then “shoot out a window and jump out to escape.” She said her client told her he had found the valise full of weapons, including the box cutter and rounds of ammuni- tion, in a Brussels public park near the train station. Officials did not disclose a possible motive for the attack, but Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Spanish au- thorities had notified French intelligence about the suspect because he belongs to a “rad- ical Islamist movement.” David said he told her that he received orders from no one. Americans tell how they subdued gunman Recounting how he and two other American friends took down the gunman on the high-speed train, U.S. airman Spencer Stone said Sunday that he was awak- ened from a deep sleep be- fore springing into action and subduing the attacker. Stone said he turned around and saw a man holding an assault rifle and that it “looked like it was jammed and it wasn’t working.” In his first remarks since Friday’s attack on an Amsterdam-to-Paris train, Stone said he and his friends took down the gunman before choking him unconscious. “He seemed like he was ready to fight to the end,” Stone said. “So were we.” Stone spoke at a live news conference at the U.S. am- bassador’s residence in Paris along with Anthony Sadler and National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos. Stone is hailed not only for being the first to grapple with the attacker, but for helping to stop the bleeding in a French- American passenger wounded by a bullet. Stone, wearing a sling on his left arm, was wounded in the attack and said he will re- ceive further medical treat- ment in Germany. He said the attacker kept pulling out weapons from his bag, and that he was stabbed in the neck and sliced on his hand. His thumb was reat- tached during his hospital stay in Lille. He thanked the French doctors, police offi- cers and others. Skarlatos said military training played a part in sub- duing the gunman. “In the beginning, it was mostly gut instinct, survival,” he said. “Our training kicked in after the struggle.” U.S. Ambassador Jane Hartley praised the three Americans, calling them heroes. “We often use the word hero and in this case I know that word has never been more appropriate,” Hartley said. “They are truly heroes. When most of us would run away, Spencer, Alek and Anthony ran into the line of fire, saying ‘Let’s go.’ Those words changed the fate of many.” El-Khazzani lawyer said he “told me that for him, nothing happened … He said he didn’t even hear any shot fired. The Kalashnikov didn’t work.” One shot did ring out, in- juring a French-American teacher in the chest. He was being treated in a Lille hospital. LONDON (AP) – British police say the death toll from an air- show crash is “highly likely” to increase to 11 people after a fighter jet slammed into a busy main road. The Hawker Hunter single-seater fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehi- cles on a nearby road as it crashed Saturday afternoon. Witnesses say the jet ap- peared to have plummeted when it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver. The initial death toll was seven. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry of Sussex Police said officials were removing bodies from the scene Sunday and more fatalities may be discovered. The pilot remained in crit- ical condition in the hospital, and a crane will remove the jet wreckage on Monday. UK airshow crash death toll likely to rise to 11 In this image made from TV, Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento State University, left, sits with Alek Skarlatos, U.S. National Guardsman from Roseburg, Oregon, who both helped overpower high-speed train attacker, talk to the media early Saturday in Arras, France. – PHOTO: AP Emergency services attend the scene where 11 people are thought to have died when an historic Hawker Hunter fighter jet plummeted onto the major south coast road on Saturday. – PHOTO: AP U.S. Airman Spencer Stone with U.S. Ambassador to France Jane D. Hartley, before a press conference held at the ambassador’s residence in Paris, France, on Sunday. – PHOTO: APNext >