ESTABLISHED 1965 www.caymancompass.com – 75 CENTS – Friday January 15, 2016 Mercuryman Triathlon ‘Diet’ wines to try Cutting calories by the glass B6 Art Activities Lifestyles ■ water sports TakeTake sky!sky! to the TRIO kitesurfing B5 EN MAS’ International performance art exhibit opens B2 Seeing things the Segway way Cayman from a whole new perspective B7 Friday January 15, 2016 • Cayman Compass Photo: Christian Black Mercuryman Triathlon Three, if by road, bike and sea B4 Slight with wave heights of 1 to 3 feet. High of 85 Low of 75 Take to the sky! cAymAn wEEkEnDEr Editorial | pagE 4 ‘Hillary-Speak’ on tHe campaign trail TUESDAY - FRIDAY - SUNDAY 17.95 $39.95 Jay leno to speak in cayman kelSey Jukam kjukam@pinnaclemedialtd.com Comedian and former late-night talk show host Jay Leno will be the keynote speaker at the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit. Mr. Leno was the host of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” from 1992 to 2014. The popular talk-show which featured comedy and inter- views with celebrities, aired on the American television network NBC. Despite being pitted against late-night legend David Letterman, and taking over from another legend – Johnny Carson – Mr. Leno’s show became the ratings leader of late night. “Jay Leno is one of the most popular and recognizable television hosts ever. We are de- lighted to be welcoming him to the Cayman Islands as our keynote speaker,” said Chris Duggan, vice president of Dart Enterprises, one of the sponsors of the event. “He leads an outstanding lineup of speakers and we are excited to have someone of his stature and personality on board to deliver what is sure to be an interesting and enter- taining keynote address,” Mr. Duggan added. Since he passed the “Tonight Show” torch on to comedian Jimmy Fallon in 2014, Mr. Leno has continued to perform at comedy venues across the United States and occasionally abroad. He also has a Web-entertainment venture called “Jay Leno’s Garage” which relates to his passion for automobiles. Mr. Leno is an avid vehicle collector and owns hundreds of auto- mobiles and motorcycles. He reviews vehicles on the Jay Leno’s Garage website, and the ven- ture morphed into a weekly primetime series on CNBC in 2015. The show won an Emmy Award and two additional nominations. According to his biography on the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit website, Mr. Leno has been “touted as one of the nicest people in show business and CarePay trial Watson: CarePay to solve all our Problems Former chairman says HSA was in “catastrophic” state Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Details of private discussions regarding the CarePay hospital patient swipe-card contract that took place between Aug. 11-12, 2010 – four months before the US$13 million contract was agreed by government – were reviewed in Canover Watson’s criminal trial Thursday. Watson testified there were two such discussions. One was on Aug. 11, 2010 be- tween himself, former Health Minister Mark Scotland and AIS (Advanced Integrated Systems) Jamaica owner Douglas Halsall that occurred after a formal presentation Mr. Halsall made to government officials about his company’s healthcare patient claims system earlier that day. The second meeting occurred on Aug. 12, 2010, between Watson, Mr. Scotland and the then Premier McKeeva Bush. Facing an annual budget shortfall of mil- lions of dollars in the government Health Services Authority and believing Mr. Halsall’s computerized patient records management system could help alleviate that, Mr. Scotland asked Mr. Halsall during the Aug. 11 meeting how long it would take him to “set up” in Cayman, Watson testified. New-look airport taking shape JameS WHittaker jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Work on the long-awaited expansion of the Owen Roberts International Airport is begin- ning to take shape. The foundations are in place and the steel structure of the new baggage hold room is going up. That’s just phase one of a four-phase project that is expected to take three years to complete. But the work represents the first visible signs of con- crete progress on a project that has been discussed for over a decade. “People are saying it is good to see that something is happening,” said Albert Anderson, the CEO of the Airports Authority. “The staff are excited be- cause they have wanted to see it done for years.” Ultimately, the expansion will almost triple the size of the airport terminal, including new arrival and departure halls. Phase one is a comparatively small part of the overall project and will include a new bag- gage handling and screening area, along with offices and a second-floor mechanical room. The 29,000 square foot steel- framed structure was going up this week and the buildings are on track to be completed in May, despite delays caused by heavy rains in December. Jay leno PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » extensive expansion work on the airport is under way. – PHoto: taneos ramsay PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 »2 LOCAL NEWS Friday January 15, 2016 • Cayman Compass Harpist Extraordinaire Eugenio Leon Serenades Tableside Tonight Friday and every Friday! Tarpon Fish Feeding 7:30pm & 9:00pm Nightly Fish FeedingFish FeedingTarponTarpon TONIGHT! Friday Happy Hour 5pm-7pm with DJ Flex Free lessons with Kirk starting 9.30pm Every Tuesday Salsa Tuesdays with DJ Flex starting Salsa with DJ Flex Salsa with DJ Flex with DJ Flex TOMORROW Saturday, Jan 16th Barefoot Man and Sea N’B Starting live at 8:00pm Come for dinner Stay for Dancing Or come to our beautiful Oceanside Bar and listen to the Sweet Sounds of Barefoot Man Call 949-2231 or email: thewharf@candw.ky 945-2290 • West Shore Center, Seven Mile Beach • 10am to 10pm Fresh, Healthy & Delicious! Cayman Cookin’ Over a Wood Fire! Taste why we’re voted “Best”! If you’re Hungry! Hungry! 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Businessman Harry Lalli has retaken the lease on the properties, and the Dog House, Brick House family restaurant and Keg House outdoor bar are scheduled to open at the weekend. Also planned are a gin bar and a restaurant called Temple House specializing in Indian, Chinese and Thai food. There will be a takeaway restaurant within the same complex of properties to the rear of Hurley’s supermarket. Mr. Lalli believes the bars and restaurants will fill a gap in the market for the growing districts east of George Town. “I decided to do this project because I live in the area and see there is a need for it,” he said. “When I had the Dog House and the Brick House before, they were very popular. The population has grown even more in the past three years and there is not much in the way of family friendly bars and restaurants between Bodden Town and Sunset House.” The properties, vacant for the past year, have undergone an extensive refit, with the Dog House decked out in sports memorabilia and photographs and featuring large-screen TVs. “It is going to be the place to come and watch the Superbowl or the Premier League football or pretty much any sports event,” said Mr. Lalli. The size of the venue has been reduced, with the addition of an interior wall to create room for some in- door seating for the new Brick House restaurant. Mr. Lalli said the bulk of the seating for the restaurant, aimed at families, will be out- side, next to a bouncy castle and kids play area. The outdoor bar, known as the Keg House, will also re- open at the end of the week. Mr. Lalli also plans to open a gin cocktail bar, called Gin House Blues, at the site within the next few months. “This is the new up-and- coming trend,” he said. “It will be open every night, but we expect it to be busiest on Fridays.” Opening at the same time next door will be the Temple House restaurant. He said the concept of mul- tiple different types of venues at one site had worked well at Whiskey Mist at the Strand, where he is also a part-owner. The Grand Harbour busi- nesses will employ between 15 and 18 people initially, in- creasing to between 30 and 35 once all the venues are open. Mr. Lalli said the venues have been ready for some time, but finding experienced staff had proved a challenge. A “soft opening” is planned for the Dog House, Keg House and Brick House on Friday. Succession plan puts Caymanian director at 911 Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Julian Lewis will take over next month as head of the Cayman Islands 911 Emergency Communications Centre after being named to the position Wednesday by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Mr. Lewis is set to re- place Brent Finster, a vet- eran U.S. emergency com- munications manager, who has held the post at 911 for the last seven years and who has established an “impres- sive legacy,” according to ministry officials. Mr. Finster is cred- ited with helping establish the territory’s first national CCTV public safety moni- toring system and with the implementation and expan- sion of the electronic moni- toring system for criminal offenders. Both of those sys- tems are monitored 24-7 from the 911 center. “Mr. Finster was also one of the first department heads in the Ministry of Home Affairs to implement a formal succession plan,” said min- istry chief officer Eric Bush. “The rigorous recruitment process proves that succes- sion planning works.” Mr. Lewis, a former po- lice officer who also has a law degree, was one of two Caymanian assistant direc- tors at 911 who were men- tored by Mr. Finster in their development. In addition to handling new responsibilities of elec- tronic monitoring and CCTV, the call volumes handled by 911 have increased sharply in recent years. Calls to service made to 911 rose about 20 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to the ministry. “No two days are the same,” Mr. Lewis said. “Yet while the demands on our 24 members of staff are high, they are invariably handled adeptly.” Mr. Bush said he wel- comed the appointment of Mr. Lewis, a Caymanian, fol- lowing the relatively re- cent appointments of two non-Caymanians, David Hails in the fire service and Neil Lavis in the prisons, within the ministry’s public safety departments. Mr. Lewis served with the Royal Cayman Islands Police for 11 years before joining 911 in 2011. Brent Fuller bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com The highest-ranking fe- male officer in the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has been granted a leave of absence to pursue an articled clerkship at a local law firm. Angelique Howell, the superintendent of uniform and district operations, confirmed she will tempo- rarily leave the police ser- vice to do her articles at Mourant Ozannes. Police granted Ms. Howell an 18- month leave of absence. In the interim, RCIPS Superintendent Robert Scotland will serve in Ms. Howell’s role and will also continue to serve in his current role as supervisor of police specialist opera- tions. Special operations in- cludes marine and air pa- trols, police armed units and K9 units. Mr. Scotland will oversee about 250 police officers. 911 Director Brent Finster, left, congratulates his replacement Julian Lewis, right, while ministry chief officer Eric Bush looks on. Longtime poLice superintendent Leaves to seek Law articLes Superintendent Angelique Howell Harry Lalli’s renovated Dog House at Grand Harbour will reopen on Friday. – photo: James whittakerThe islands’ most-trusted news source 3 Cayman Compass • Friday January 15, 2016 The 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. ‘Hillary-Speak’ on the campaign trail “There’s no such thing as bad publicity,” or so the saying goes. But when U.S. Democratic presidential can- didate Hillary Clinton named the Cayman Islands — in the context of tax abuses, of course — it certainly wasn’t good publicity for our country. Smart people, however, know that offshore finan- cial centers are an important component of the global economy. Mrs. Clinton, for all her shortcomings, may not be stupid — but she certainly is opportunistic. The reaction online and in the media to Mrs. Clinton’s comments was fairly predictable: first portraying her remarks as a frontal assault on tax havens, then, depending on the ideological leanings of the source, labeling her as heroine or hypocrite, considering her own financial connections with Cayman (including through her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton). We don’t interpret her statements, or her related tax proposals, in such a manner. Our impression was that Mrs. Clinton was speaking about a relative handful of American individuals who maneuver through the U.S. tax code in order to pay lower rates. To quote Mrs. Clinton, “the kind of misclassifying of income, trying to make it look like it’s capital gains when it is really ordinary income, going ahead and routing income through the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands or wherever.” She proposes to levy a 4 percent tax surcharge on Americans earning more than $5 million per year (no matter if the money is generated onshore or offshore), effectively creating a new top tax bracket for the wealth- iest households. Mrs. Clinton wants to limit the ability of the very wealthy to defer income tax on offshore fund investments (known as the “Romney loophole”), and she also endorses the “Buffett Rule” proposal to set a minimum tax rate of 30 percent for Americans who earn more than $2 million per year. Put another way, Mrs. Clinton’s target isn’t Cayman, per se — it’s the rich. (Bermuda, on the other hand, may have cause to worry, as Mrs. Clinton aimed at the confluence of the reinsurance industry and hedge fund sector.) For the purposes of this editorial, we’ll limit our comments on Mrs. Clinton’s policies to this: We disagree with their intent and effectiveness. The larger truth is that politicians, just like writers (see, for example, the first sentence of this editorial), often employ tropes — or clichés — to transmit an impres- sion to their audience in as few words as possible. Unfor- tunately the name of our country in books, film, politics and common parlance has become synonymous with money laundering, tax evasion, and all sorts of unpopular or even unsavory activity by the wealthy elite. We’ll call this “the John Grisham effect,” after the author’s selection of Cayman as a setting for scandal in his 1991 novel “The Firm,” which became a major film. Mr. Grisham chose Cayman out of the most innocent of intentions — he needed a Caribbean locale, and had visited our country before; but the ensuing chain reaction of reputational ramifications has been most serious. How much actual economic damage Cayman has suffered as a result of its image abroad as a “notorious tax haven” is unclear. Perhaps there has been none, other than to lend our relatively staid financial offerings an aroma of adventure and daring. Regardless, over the past 25 years, the public rela- tions response from our leaders has been totally inef- fective, and nearly nonexistent. When the legitimacy of Cayman’s financial sector is impugned, we rarely hear strong rejoinders from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority or Cayman’s government. (When we do witness a vociferous rebuttal, it tends to be from attorney Anthony Travers, the former head of Cayman Finance, who is a one-man band playing Cayman’s anthem to the rest of the world.) At this point, we don’t know if this is a battle worth fighting, or one that our country can hope to win. For better or worse, “the Cayman Islands” is firmly entrenched in the popular lexicon as a “notorious tax haven.” Ultimately, aside from wounds inflicted upon our fealty to country and accuracy, the international demoniza- tion of Cayman may have little practical effect. The real concern is if governments such as the U.S., entities such as the EU, or organizations such as the OECD, resolve to exorcise the demon that has been created in their own imaginations. That would place us in real danger. Friday January 15, 2016 • Cayman COmpass Migrants and the law The Telegraph (london) The assaults on women that occurred in Cologne on New Year’s Eve test German liberalism. For years, the country has tried to atone for the sins of the past by opening its doors to outsiders. Now its leaders are slowly coming to terms with the fact that some migrants, or even refugees, can be criminal – and that some cultures do not relocate easily to Western soil. The Left ties itself up in knots over this dilemma. It is too politically correct to identify the problem or name the solution, which is that Western societies have to insist upon integration. What happened in Cologne was horrific. Women were robbed and groped, pos- sibly even raped, by men de- scribed as being Arab or North African in appearance. Some left-wing commenta- tors urged Germans not to jump to conclusions about national origins for fear of stirring up the continent’s far-right. Their reaction be- trayed a liberal sensitivity to- ward protecting the reputa- tion of ethnic minorities over the safety of the public. Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said of online chatter: “What hap- pens on the right-wing plat- forms and in chat rooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women.” That is plainly untrue. Equally galling was Henriette Reker, the Mayor of Cologne, advising German woman on how to behave so as to avoid being attacked – as though they were tourists visiting their own country. And in the U.K., a Left-wing columnist encouraged her readers to think of male mi- grants who had escaped a life of tyranny “where they may at least have enjoyed superiority over women” suddenly finding themselves in a country where their values system was tipped upside down. After decades of pro- moting cultural relativism and asserting that people from undeveloped coun- tries can do no wrong, some Westerners have lost an ap- propriate sense of moral dis- crimination. It is tempting to relate this to arguments that the West invites ter- rorist outrages with its for- eign policy, and with the gen- eral view that Europeans can do nothing right. As such, the Left offers an approach to immigration that really just amounts to seeing what emerges after the dust has settled. It is true that dictating social mores to ar- rivals can be difficult, partly because they are often the result of cultural heritage rather than law. Nevertheless, the law of the land is quite clear: theft and sexual as- sault are wrong. As such, in- tegration surely begins by arresting those who commit crimes and sending a mes- sage that encourages more civilized behaviour. The West has to become a host that lays down the house rules. Here in Britain, the Government has asserted that “passive tolerance” has to give way in the long-term to the promotion of integra- tion. That means laws de- signed to reduce the media influence of fanatics, univer- sities compelled to show ac- tive attempts to tackle ex- tremism, a crackdown on forced marriages and other misogynist cultural practices, and the purging of extremist material from the Internet. Many of these policies have been challenged as threats to civil liberties. Given that the character of British society is marked by a small state and strong individualism, these liberties certainly need to be protected if we are to be true to ourselves. But experience shows that simply waiting for new arrivals to integrate is useless. In Rotherham, the reluctance of public officials to speak out against child abuse perpetrated by mem- bers of the Pakistani commu- nity showed just how dan- gerous political correctness can be. Ultimately, if someone does not wish to be part of Western society, if they choose to break its rules, then they are more than welcome to leave. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that deportation ought to immediately follow infringe- ment of German law by ref- ugees – a good idea, but one that has, in the past, been un- dermined by human rights laws. If the choice the West faces is between signalling its virtue and protecting its citi- zens, it really ought to choose the latter. © 2016, Telegraph Media Group Police stand in front of the cathedral in Cologne on Tuesday. New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies in the German city have been blamed on foreigners and pushed discussions about migration. - Photo: AP Printed and Published by: Caymanian Compass Limited (a subsidiary of Pinnacle Media Ltd) Compass Centre Shedden Road, George Town send us yOur VieWs Or neWs: P.O. 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REGISTER NoW @ CAYmANSUmmIT.Com * week days only SPoNSoRSFriday January 15, 2016 • Cayman Compass 6 DISTRICT DAYS District Days East End North Side Kelsey JuKam kjukam@pinnaclemedialtd.com Plenty of visitors flock to Seven Mile Beach for its spectacular sun- sets, and if Shane Edwards has his way, they’ll soon be just as eager to trek out to the East End around sunrise. Mr. Edwards, an East End na- tive, wants to share the beauty and history of the district he loves with visitors to the island, and has recently started a bike tour company, ECO-Rides Cayman, to do just that. “East End is different from other parts of Cayman because it is still considered country, and not yet as developed as other areas around the island,” Mr. Edwards said. “I see the beauty of East End every day. When I ride my bike or drive home from work, as soon as I hit the Bodden Town point, I feel the fresh sea breeze and from there I roll the windows down coming up to High Rock until I get home.” It’s a home, he says, he would not trade for anything, and he wor- ries about its future. “East End has changed in many ways,” Mr. Edwards said. “The big- gest change is that most of the lo- cals have left to live in other dis- tricts which for me has created sort of an emptiness.” He is also concerned that devel- opment has taken away many of the beach areas that East End residents once enjoyed more freely, and that too many of the district’s trees are being cut down, with no plan for fu- ture replanting projects. “My hope for the future of East End is that more locals get in- volved in the tourism services, and realize what a gem we have in East End,” Mr. Edwards said. “I also hope that the politicians of the day put more interest in preserving our environment.” Mr. Edwards came up with the idea of leading bicycle tours in East End in early 2013, after speaking to visitors at a local resort about places to eat and visit in the district. “I also saw many tourists walking along the road and a few riding, but wasn’t sure if they knew where they were going, or if they identified some of the major land- marks,” Mr. Edwards said. “I want to show them what I know about East End as a local, that was born and grew up here.” Mr. Edwards is also keen to sup- port other local businesses, and points out many restaurants that might not be listed in guidebooks. ECO-Rides currently offers three different tours. The Cayman Sunrise tour is an 11-mile ride that begins at 8 a.m. and takes between two- and-a-half to three hours, hitting the main attractions along the coast of the East End down to the blow- holes. The Cayman Sea Breeze tour goes a bit further, taking riders out to Lover’s Wall and Health City. It’s a good option for those that like to sleep in, since it begins at 2 p.m. It’s 14 miles and three to three-and-a- half-hours long. The Inland Escape tour is the longest at 18.5 miles, and takes four to four-and-a-half-hours. It hits everything the first two tours do, but also takes riders deep into the heart of inland East End, to get a glimpse of the rich farming culture of the district. The tours begin at the Wyndham Reef Resort, around sunrise. On a recent Inland Escape tour, the first stop was one that most vis- itors to the East End are likely to miss: Collier’s Pond. The “pond” des- ignation belies the true size and at- tractiveness of the site. It’s a desig- nated animal sanctuary, and ideal for bird watchers. There are several species of birds that can be spotted here, including herons, egrets, double-crested cormorants, black- throated blue warblers, Caribbean Elaenia, and West Indian wood- peckers among others. After a brief stop at Collier’s Public Beach across the road, riders head to the Wreck of the Ten Sails memorial, to learn about one of the most famous shipwrecks in Cayman’s history. In 1794, 10 ships in a convoy headed to the United States and Britain wrecked on the reef that surrounds East End. Locals heroically rescued the pas- sengers and crew members, man- aging to save all but eight lives. Legend says that the Cayman Islands enjoys its tax-free as a re- ward for the bravery displayed by residents during the rescue, though no documented evidence has ever proved the theory. Further up the road, riders stop at East End Lighthouse Park. While the lighthouses themselves are rather small and unremarkable, the many historic markers at the site provide fascinating details of East End’s past. Some of the markers are fading now, but luckily, Mr. Edwards is able to fill in the blanks and then some. The next stop is well off the beaten path. Mr. Edwards takes riders to the home of one of his rel- atives to explore a sizeable cave, where he used to play as a child. The stop is a good opportunity to learn what it’s like to have grown up in East End. The shade of the cave is an ideal resting spot, and after eating a few sour tamarinds pulled from the nearby tree, riders set off again. A trek to East End would not be complete without a stop at the blowholes, which is lovely site even on calmer days, and where Mr. Edwards enjoys pointing out the various fossils embedded in the seashore. The final stop along the coast before heading inland is at Lover’s Wall, which makes for a nice photo opportunity. Inland, riders trek up to Health City. Mr. Edwards is excited by what medical tourism might bring to his district. A few miles down another road leading inland, riders begin to see the lush groves of tree farms, and farmers at work, many wearing traditional thatch hats. Further on, deep into East End’s forest, Mr. Edwards points out Venter’s Cistern, an important freshwater site used by wildlife and cattle. Lucky riders may run into one of the district’s prominent fig- ures, like cow herder and butcher Evelyn McLaughlin, who’s been rec- ognized for his contributions to ag- riculture in the Cayman Islands. The final stop on the tour is at Grapetree Cove, Mr. Edward’s own waterfront home, where riders can rest in one of his hammocks while enjoying a cool beverage and the fresh sea breeze. It’s hard to imagine a better way to end a day touring the East End. For more information, contact ecoridescayman@yahoo.com. ECO-Rides tours showcase East End’s sights, like Lover’s Wall. A new bike tour takes visitors to East End to sights like the Wreck of the Ten Sails Memorial. - Photos: Wil Bignal Discovering East End’s hidden treasures by bikeCayman Compass • Friday January 15, 2016 7 DISTRICT DAYS District Days East End North Side ‘Tree of life’ planted in memory of Andrew Guthrie CArol Winker cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Friends and colleagues of the late Andrew Lee Guthrie gathered at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park on Saturday to celebrate his life and observe the blessing of a tree planted in his memory. Mr. Guthrie, park man- ager from 1995 to 2010, died last July of renal cancer. He was 54. His partner, Nick Colman, said Mr. Guthrie had chosen what kind of tree he wanted: a lignum vitae (guaiacum of- ficinale). The tree, indigenous to the Caribbean, is also known as “wood of life” or “tree of life.” It is one of the densest woods known – so hard that cricket balls and police truncheons were made of it, explained John Lawrus, who succeeded Mr. Guthrie as park manager. The tree tolerates drought well, he added, and should do well in its location at the end of the Colour Gardens path, downhill from the gazebo. It is marked by a plaque. The tree was blessed by Canon Ailsa Newby, who also conducted the service. Canon Newby officiates at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Putney, England, where Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Colman were mem- bers of the congregation. She traveled to Cayman with a party that included Mr. Colman; Nigel Eaton, a col- league of Mr. Guthrie’s at the Royal Society in England; and Yolanda Thompson, who sang at Mr. Guthrie’s funeral in England and also during the service in Cayman. Local musician Katy Moore accom- panied her on the keyboard. Canon Newby said the group arrived in Cayman two days before the service and went around the park on the Friday. “We were amazed at the diversity of beauty here,” she told guests. Mr. Eaton, who read the tribute to Mr. Guthrie, said that in his 15 years with the park, “Andrew brought it from an aspirational idea to a fully functional botanic garden.” Canon Newby introduced the poem “Whoever Makes a Garden,” later read by Mr. Eaton, by noting that Mr. Guthrie had chosen it. “It il- lustrates his understanding of what he was doing in his career. Andrew was a facili- tator for a Greater Power,” she said. The poem and Mr. Guthrie’s life spoke to the good order and husbandry of nature – “the stewardship of God’s creation” for the good of the future of humankind, Canon Newby said. The last verse of the poem reads: “Whoever makes a garden has, oh, so many friends; the glory of the morning, the dew when daylight ends. For rain and wind and sunshine and dew and fertile sod; and he who makes a garden works hand in hand with God.” After the service and blessing of the tree, everyone was invited to the visitors center for refreshments and an opportunity to share their memories of Mr. Guthrie. One man who put his thoughts in writing was Earl Lewis, who started working at the park just six months after Mr. Guthrie. “I found him to be a man of integrity and he was someone anyone could relate their problems to. He was a very good lis- tener and he left you feeling that you could tell him any- thing,” he said. Mr. Lewis found his boss to be approachable, caring and having a pos- itive outlook on life. “He demonstrated great hospi- tality to all and he held on to his strong positive family values …. I learned so much from him, especially in how to care for and nurture plants. He taught me well and whatever he taught, he also practised.” Canon Ailsa Newby blesses the lignum vitae planted in memory of Andrew Guthrie, asking the Creator of Life that it ‘bear witness to your abundant love and grace made known in our brother Andrew.’ - Photos: Carol Winker The memorial tree is at the end of the Colour Gardens path, downhill from the gazebo. Andrew Guthrie 50 yeArs AGo: Visits, weather and fishing make the news In the Jan. 19 edition of the Caymanian Weekly, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, East End corre- spondent Charles Dixon wrote: “Messrs. Ernest Pearson and Stanley Gourzong arrived on the 8th and 10th respectively. They were em- ployed by NBC. “Mrs. Phyliss McLean and son Dervin returned from Jamaica on the 13th. They spent 13 days there during which Dervin received medical aid for a fractured arm. “Miss Virginia Pearson left the Island on Mon. to begin a three- year training course in nursing at the University Hospital. We wish her success. “Jan. 1966 seems to be a very re- markable month as far as the weather and fishing are concerned. “Over the past eight days there have been very strong showers of rain, groupers are plentiful, and fish- ermen have been catching large num- bers, largest catch being 102, totaling over 950 lbs.”8 LOCAL NEWS Friday January 15, 2016 • Cayman Compass We regret to announce the passing of Gladys Roche Who departed this life on Saturday, 9th January, 2016. Condolences can be registered at boddenfuneralservices.com & Bodden Funeral Service Facebook page A funeral service will be held on Sunday, 17th January, 2016, at Church of God Universal, Walkers Rd., 2:00 p.m. Viewing will be from 1:00 p.m. prior to the service. Interment will follow at the Prospect Cemetery. s.com We regret to announce the passing of Condolences can be registered at boddenfuneralservices.com & Bodden Funeral Service Facebook page Mr. Walker will be repatriated to Jamaica, for services, and burial in St. Elizabeth. Westmore Walker Who departed this life on Sunday, 13 December, 2015 We have been asked to announce the passing of Ms. Kaynel Marie Chollette who passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 A Service of Thanksgiving will be announced at a later date.. Condolences can be registered at churchillsfuneralhome.com We have been asked to announce the passing of Mr. Trinvic Oneil Brown who passed away on Tuesday, January 12, 2016. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Veteran’s & Seaman’s Centre, Cayman Brac at 11:00am. Viewing will be from 10:00am -10:45am. Interment to follow at Watering Place Cemetery. Condolences can be registered at churchillsfuneralhome.com We have been asked to announce the passing of Mr. Trinvic Oneil Brown who passed away on Tuesday, January 12, 2016. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Veteran’s & Seaman’s Centre, Cayman Brac at 11:00am. Viewing will be from 10:00am -10:45am. Interment to follow at Watering Place Cemetery. Condolences can be registered at churchillsfuneralhome.com A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on Saturday 100 Women give to Alzheimer’s association Kelsey JuKAm kjukam@pinnaclemedialtd.com Recently formed charity group 100 Women Who Care donated nearly $30,000 to the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association at the Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort on Tuesday evening. This was the second meeting of the giving circle group, which raised a re- cord-breaking $40,000 for the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre in its first event in October. At the 100 Women Who Care meetings, three char- ities, chosen through a random selection process, each make a five-minute presentation. Attendees then vote to select which of the three will receive the donation. After representatives from the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Kiwanis made their presen- tations, describing the work each organization does in the community, attendees voted by secret ballot. Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association founder and chairwoman Dorothy Davis said she was overwhelmed and moved to tears when the tally revealed that her organization would re- ceive the donation. “We have never received anything like that, and we were in need – we’re so much in need – for funds to carry out things that the community is asking us for,” Ms. Davis said. Ms. Davis founded the as- sociation in April 2012 after her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. She said the donation will help the association pay for a special training course to help prepare emergency first responders and medical professionals to deal with individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Ms. Davis said Alzheimer’s does not get the type of attention and sup- port other diseases do, and she was thrilled that many attendees approached her to ask how they could support the association in the future. 100 Women Who Care chairwoman Emma Graham- Taylor said Ms. Davis was “smart” in her presenta- tion to ask those who knew somebody with Alzheimer’s to raise their hands. “I think it touches so many people’s lives here,” Ms. Graham-Taylor said. She added that many probably chose to vote for the association because “it’s a local grass-roots charity” without the branding or re- sources of an international organization supporting it. Local charities are also getting a boost from men in the community. Last week, a similar giving-circle group, 100 Men Who Give a Damn, raised $14,800 at their third quarterly meeting for Cayman HospiceCare. Danielle Coleman, di- rector of operations for Cayman HospiceCare said that the charity was “thrilled” to receive the do- nation from 100 Men Who Give a Damn. She said such donations “go a long way to support our ability to con- tinue giving free end of life care to all persons living with a terminal illness in the Cayman Islands.” “Whilst being the recip- ient of funds is an amazing thing,” she said, “we want to congratulate ‘100 Men’ and their sister organiza- tion ‘100 Women’ for in- creasing the visibility of all charities by providing a platform to speak about the work we all do and more so for providing an opportunity where charities can come to- gether to discuss potential partnerships. “There is a significant amount of work we charities can do together and we are very grateful for providing an opportunity where we initiate these conversations and potential partnerships.” 100 Women Who Care raised nearly $30,000 for the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association of the Cayman Islands. - Photos: Melissa Wolfe Dorothy Davis of the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association makes her pitch to 100 Women Who Care. Car donated to auto program in memory of slain cousin The cousin of the late David Ebanks, who was shot dead in West Bay early last year, has donated a car to the apprenticeship pro- gram he was involved in. Eziethamae “Zeta” Bodden gave her car to Superior Autos on Sherwood Drive, George Town, this week in memory of her 20-year-old cousin who died on Jan. 23, 2015. Ms. Bodden donated her Chevy Equinox after learning what the company had been doing to help young people with its youth mechanic apprenticeship training program. Instead of selling the car, she said, she donated it in the hope that the me- chanic school would ben- efit from it in her cous- in’s honor. “My nephew Leandru Ebanks and my cousin Lee Powery have both completed and bene- fited from the course, and I am very proud of them,” said Ms. Bodden. As well as taking part in the Superior Auto training program, Mr. Ebanks had also participated in the gov- ernment’s Passport2Success training program. Upon hearing about the donation, Superior Auto initially intended to drive the vehicle to the students’ workshop. However, as the vehicle’s insurance was expired, Theodore Kelly of 24/7 Towing and Road Side Assistance presented Ms. Bodden with a special rate to collect the car at her home and deliver it to Superior Auto. During a tour of the car facility, Ms. Bodden gave a motivational talk to the group of young men cur- rently in the program. “I believe in helping the youth of these islands in any way possible,” she said, “and hope that many more young people will benefit from this program.” Superior Auto’s training program was established in September 2010. It of- fers learning and training opportunities to car en- thusiasts and aspiring me- chanics. The program is free to young Caymanians. Eziethamae Bodden handing the car key to Superior Auto’s apprenticeship program students. Ms. Bodden donated her Chevy Equinox after learning what the company had been doing to help young people with its youth mechanic apprenticeship training program.The islands’ most-trusted news source 9 Cayman Compass • Friday January 15, 2016 Water Authority - Cayman REMINDER FOR LICENSED PLUMBERS Annual Plumber Licence Renewal Fees are due for 2016 All Apprentice, Journeyman and Master Plumbers must renew their licence each year. Please bring a completed renewal form and the appropriate fee to the Water Authority’s Administrative Headquarters on Red Gate Road before 31 January, 2016 to ensure your licence stays current. NOTE: Fees for 2016 Plumber Licences as per The Water Authority Regulations 2012 are as follows: Apprentice Plumber CI $20.00 per year Journeyman Plumber CI $50.00 per year Master Plumber CI $100.00 per year Plumber’s Licence Renewal Forms along with a list of all currently renewed Licensed Plumbers can be found on our website at www.waterauthority.ky. All non-Caymanian applicants must include a copy of a valid CI Work Permit. For further information please contact the Plumbers’ Examination Board Secretary at 949 - 2837 ext. 2001. the hardest working.” Mr. Leno uses his tal- ents to help those less for- tunate, performing at nu- merous charitable benefits and he leads the annual Love Ride in California to benefit numerous hu- manitarian organizations serving people with autism and muscular dystrophy, the Special Olympics, and many others. He has also assisted his wife Mavis’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, for which she and her foun- dation, Feminist Majority, were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Leno is also an au- thor – he has written a number of children’s books, and has a monthly column in the magazine Popular Mechanics. The Cayman Alternative Investment Summit will be held Feb. 4-5 at The Ritz- Carlton, Grand Cayman. Other guest speakers and panelists at the summit in- clude “world’s most famous hacker” Kevin Mitnick, ac- tresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Meghan Markle, Sport for Freedom founder Julia Immonen, One Young World co-founder David Jones, and human rights activist Kerry Kennedy. The con- ference will also feature panels with several invest- ment industry experts. Mr. Duggan said that this year’s speaker line-up is the “best yet” featuring some of the greatest minds in the industry. Mr. Anderson said there was no current disrup- tion to travelers caused by the work. “It is all fenced off be- cause it is not in an area that passengers or airport workers currently use. It is a completely separate con- struction zone. “We are putting up signs asking for people to be patient while we im- prove the airport because people can obviously see the work going on and there is some noise from time to time.” The Airports Authority is inviting tender bids on phase two of the project, the much larger expan- sion of the terminal. Construction firms have until the end of the month to bid for the work. Once that part of the development gets under way, managing the pas- senger flow through the airport could become more difficult. Mr. Anderson said the long time scale for the work was partially down to the need to manage the con- struction schedule to keep the airport functioning as renovations take place. “The phasing of the work is all part of the plan,” he said. “It will be up to the bidder to manage that.” He said a certain amount of disruption was inevitable, but the Airports Authority staff would do everything they could to minimize that. Watson said Mr. Halsall was interested, but wanted “100 percent” of the Cayman healthcare market, in- cluding both private and public sector patients who would use AIS Jamaica’s “CarePay” card system at the hospital or other local healthcare facilities. Watson, the former chairman of the Health Services Authority, said he put Mr. Halsall in touch with a law firm that could assist him in the process of setting up a Cayman company to handle local operations. At the Aug. 11 meeting, Watson said Mr. Halsall of- fered to send Mr. Scotland a draft agreement regarding a contract that government could approve. Watson said Mr. Scotland told Mr. Halsall that there would have to be a proper bidding process for such a contract, but that he was keen to get that started. During the meeting Watson said Mr. Halsall jok- ingly told Mr. Scotland that if the CarePay system was put in place “you’ll be elected for life.” “The minister was the most enthusiastic of anyone,” Watson testified. Former Minister Scotland is not scheduled to be a wit- ness in Watson’s trial, neither is Mr. Halsall. Watson said Mr. Scotland invited him to a meeting the next day, Aug. 12, with Premier Bush where the three men discussed the system AIS Jamaica pro- posed for healthcare patient claims. Watson said the pre- mier also appeared “quite ex- cited” about it, but that both Mr. Bush and Mr. Scotland noted there was no money for such a system in the 2010/11 budget the government had recently approved. Mr. Bush is also not a witness in the ongoing trial. Watson said he reminded both men during the Aug. 12 meeting that the HSA was losing “a million dol- lars a month” in unpaid hos- pital bills and that a solu- tion to that problem was needed urgently. At that point, Watson said Mr. Scotland suggested that the system could be funded as a joint project between the HSA and the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company, rather than from the Ministry of Health itself. Watson said he ad- vised Mr. Scotland to do a sole-source bid for the hos- pital project to “speed things along,” but that Mr. Scotland and Mr. Bush indicated a local firm – Brac Informatics – had expressed an interested in bidding on the same con- tract. Watson said Mr. Bush indicated he “did not want the politics” of excluding the com- pany from the bidding pro- cess because opposition MLA Moses Kirkconnell had an in- terest in Brac Informatics. As the bidding process for the contract went on into early November 2010, Watson testified that he was con- tacted by Danny Scott, a local insurance manager repre- senting Brac Informatics, who stated that the bid process for the healthcare contract was unrealistic because the time line for submitting the bids was too short. Watson said Mr. Scott informed him during that conversation that Brac Informatics would not be making a bid. Assuming there would be no other interested bidders, Watson said he contacted Minister Scotland to ask him if he could seek to speed up Mr. Halsall’s bid by asking him to send Watson AIS Jamaica’s bid documents. Watson said he did so and Mr. Halsall, via his “Cayman contact,” businessman Jeffrey Webb, sent through the draft bid. The draft bid was sent to Watson on Nov. 2, 2010 – three days before the end of the bidding process on Nov. 5, 2010, the court heard. “Why are you phoning Mr. Halsall for a response two or three days before deadline for the request for proposal [the bid documents],” Grand Court Judge Michael Mettyear asked Watson. Watson responded that, at this stage, he did not have any reason to believe there would be other bidders and that he wanted to “move this process along … as quickly as possible.” It has been alleged by Crown prosecutors that, after receiving the draft bid pro- posal from AIS Jamaica, Watson and Webb doctored the bids to “mark up” the amounts initially charged for the service by Mr. Halsall’s company. The “mark up,” pros- ecutors allege, went into the pockets of Webb and Watson. This allegation of defrauding the government makes up one of the six criminal charges against Watson in the trial. Webb is also charged in the CarePay investigation, but is not currently facing trial in the Cayman Islands. Watson denies the Crown’s allegation. He said Thursday that the AIS Jamaica draft bids did not include the costs of the company’s operations in the Cayman Islands and that Mr. Halsall sent it to him knowing those costs were not included and would be added later. Watson explained to the jury at some length on Wednesday and Thursday why he believed there was such an urgency in imple- menting the CarePay contract. The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority was so cash-strapped in late 2009 that it could not even af- ford basic medical supplies such as drugs and bandages, Watson said Wednesday. “There were no solutions, no sensible solutions,” Watson said. “In fact, it was a bit of an accepted fact that the Health Services Authority would lose $10 million a year and that’s the way it was.” The implementation of what became known as the CarePay patient swipe- card system was one way Watson proposed to pre- vent the government from shelling out millions per year on healthcare losses, some of which were easily prevent- able, he said. Watson is also accused of directing the award of the CarePay contract to a local company he and business partner Webb controlled from behind the scenes. The Crown alleges Watson earned nearly US$350,000 from the con- tract while he served as HSA chairman. During testimony, Watson noted that back in 2009 the hospital system was losing about $4 million to $5 million per year on bills that it simply was not collecting. These dif- fered, he said, from uncol- lected debts or “bad” debts for which the HSA had actually charged patients. “These [services] we just weren’t charging,” Watson said, adding that the hospital wildly undercharged for other medical procedures to the point where it couldn’t even recover costs. “Every time we charged for a Caesarian sec- tion, we lost $1,200,” he said. In addition to missing out on money it should have been collecting, Watson said a number of serious patient safety issues existed. The building’s sprinkler system was faulty, backup gener- ators did not work, com- puters and sometimes phones did not work. “It was quite catastrophic, the position it was in,” Watson said. “I guess if something is bad enough for long enough, people start to accept that as the new normal.” Watson’s attorney, Trevor Burke, QC, elicited that the former HSA chairman pro- posed a number of options to the former United Democratic Party government between 2009 and 2010 in attempting to resolve the situation. Those ideas included the absorption of the Cayman Islands public health system into Miami-based Baptist Hospital’s organization, pro- posals to make civil servants pay premiums for their own healthcare coverage, suing people who did not pay med- ical bills, a targeted payroll tax and even the legaliza- tion of gambling to generate money for government to pay for hospital services. All of these plans, Watson said, were rejected because of their political unfeasibility. “The [ideas] just wouldn’t fly from a political stand- point,” Mr. Watson said. While other ideas to save money were implemented, none of them dealt with the problem of growing un- paid hospital bills, Watson said. Enter the CarePay system, which provided real- time patient claims man- agement via its computer- ized records, and its owner, Advanced Integrated Systems of Jamaica. “Would the solution be a system that was able to verify coverage and guar- antee payment at the time the service was provided?” Mr. Burke asked. Watson re- plied: “Yes. At that time of ser- vice the [healthcare] provider knows whether that payment was approved or rejected and, more importantly, the patient knows.” Watson testified that AIS Jamaica presented such a system to government offi- cials in August 2010, which is the first time he became aware of the CarePay system. He said everyone who at- tended that meeting, in- cluding former Health Minister Mark Scotland, Health Ministry Chief Officer Jennifer Ahearn and Watson was “thrilled” by the solution AIS Jamaica owner Douglas Halsall presented. “This was the holy grail,” Watson said. “This was going to solve all our problems.” Jay Leno to speak in Cayman New-look airport taking shape CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CarePay triaL Watson: CarePay to solve all our problems CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Canover WatsonNext >