ESTABLISHED 1965 www.caymancompass.com – 50 CENTS – MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 High of 85 Low of 74 Seas: Rough with wave heights of 5 to 7 feet. Small craft advisory is in effect. THE WEEK OF SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016. IN COLLABORATION WITH Politics Trump’s management style 4Food Utility of labels has expired 175 Myths The Stanley Cup 23 ABCDE NATIONAL WEEKLY ﬔe Screen Age PAGE 12 What it’s like to be 13 in the age of likes, lols and longing THE WASHINGTON POST The Screen Age EDITORIAL | PAGE 4 ON THE LANDFILL: NO PLAN, NO TIMETABLE – AND NO MONEY Seven mile beach WaTeRFROnT WalKeRS ROaD TOWn cenTRe PlaZa BURRITO ™ BURRITO ™ My moments with ‘The Greatest’ RON SHILLINGFORD The writer is a former sports editor at the Cayman Compass. When I saw on TV the news of the passing of Muhammad Ali, two over- whelming emotions engulfed me: sad- ness and relief. It was the end for a fan- tastic champion who transcended boxing and sport, but the magnificent athlete and showman I’d admired as a kid, whose health had gradually and alarmingly deteriorated through the effects of Parkinson’s disease over the decades, was finally out of pain. He showed immense bravery in the ring and ar- guably even more so fighting his illness in the second half of his 74 years. Having monitored every nuance of Ali’s life and career since the ‘60s, it was sad- dening to see his physical demise when he fought for at least five years too long, finally retiring in 1981, at age 39, after a pum- meling from the clubbing fists of Trevor Ber- bick, who in Ali’s prime probably wouldn’t have lasted more than a few rounds. So when I met Ali for the first time in 1986, the thrill of shaking his hand was tem- pered with the knowledge that he could no longer speak with the same articulation as in his prime years. It was at the Tim With- erspoon training camp in Braintree, Essex, a few miles east of London. Witherspoon, the world heavyweight champ, was there to fight the British hero Frank Bruno. It was a bright summer day and Witherspoon was sparring in the open-air ring as Ali looked on, but I wasn’t interested in watching Witherspoon. My eyes were transfixed on “The Greatest,” who was sitting at a ringside table serenely watching the action. Cayman’s 20-year pension bill: $320 million BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com The Cayman Islands government has been advised to pay an addi- tional $16 million a year for the next 20 years to help settle funding de- ficiencies in one of its civil service pension plans. The total bill for the period at current dollar values would be $320 million, according to finan- cial advisers’ estimates in a re- port on the Public Service Pensions plan obtained by the Cayman Compass under the Freedom of Information Law. The recommended $16 mil- lion per year contribution by gov- ernment would be in excess of normal annual pension contribu- tions made on behalf of employees during the period. The annual payments are esti- mated by the Mercer consulting firm based on lower estimates of what the civil service’s defined benefit retirement plan will owe. Consul- tants noted that if higher estimates of the plan’s unfunded liability were used, the payments would be $21 million each year. Most older civil servants and retirees are members of the de- fined benefit plan, which provides a monthly pension based on ending salary. Younger civil servants, or those who joined the service after April 1999, are in a defined con- tribution plan which operates like a retirement savings account or 401K account. The unfunded liability in the re- tirement plan is associated with the defined benefit [monthly pension] retirement plan. The Mercer report does not blame the operations of the Public Service Pensions Board for the PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 16 » Ali was a hit in Cayman CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Muhammad Ali was front page news in the Caymanian Compass for four days straight in 1984 when he visited Grand Cayman – twice. He was the page one photo on Thursday, March 22, the day his anticipated visit was to start. His actual arrival dominated the front page on Friday, the 23rd. His attendance at a slate of boxing matches that night was featured on Monday’s page one, and his un- expected return that Sunday night led to a press conference that was the lead story for Tuesday, March 27. In between, Ali was the subject of three editorials. He and local boxing also pro- vided enough stories and photos to fill 14 additional pages. Sportswriter Alan Ebanks and reporter Mary Jane Bodden were kept busy, as were photographers, one of whom was Ed Powers. A major non-sporting event on his schedule was a reception the night he arrived. “Ali graciously walked through the large crowd, giving autographs and posing with anyone and everybody who wanted a picture taken with ‘The Greatest,’” Ms. Bodden wrote. She described him as having the patience of Job “as the crowd flocked to him the entire time he was at Government House.” After an hour and a half, Ali and his party went to Le Club Cayman for a banquet to benefit the Cayman Islands Amateur Boxing Association. There he told his audience, “I am here to support the efforts that the young PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 16 » Muhammad Ali and Dalmain Ebanks, founding member of the Cayman Islands Amateur Boxing Association, go over a contract during a press conference on March 26, 1984.2 LOCAL&REGIONAL MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS SATURDAY NIGHT: For your viewing pleasure, minors under the age of 18 will not be admitted to any film starting after 6pm, unless accompanied by their parent. y x *Additional charges will apply per 3D ticket requested. - MONDAY - KEANU (R) 2:00 I 4:30 I 7:30 I 10:00 ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3D (PG) 1:10 2D I 4:20 I 7:00 2D I 9:50 X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D(PG13) 1:00 I 3:50 2D I 6:50 I 9:30 2D TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3D (PG13) 1:00 I 3:40 2D I 6:50 I 9:40 2D ANGRY BIRDS 3D (PG) 1:30 2D I 4:10 I 7:10 2D I 10:00 BARBERSHOP 3 THE NEXT CUT(PG13) 1:20 I 4:00 I 7:20 I 9:50 Daily Matinees Every Day $8.00 Seniors, Mon-Fri Before 6pm Cayman Cinema@cbcinema6cbcinema6 640-FILM (640-3456) JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Former PepsiCo CEO Roger Enrico died doing what he loved best, ac- cording to his longtime friend and business partner Burns Rutty. Mr. Rutty said he was shocked and saddened by the death of the business leader, who was dubbed the “Cola King” for his success with Pepsi in the 1980s. “The only consolation is that he died doing what he enjoyed doing most,” Com- fort Suites hotel owner Mr. Rutty told the Cayman Com- pass on Friday. “He loved the water, he loved to snorkel and scuba dive,” he said. “He had dived all over the world, but his favorite place was the Cayman Islands.” Mr. Enrico, an investor in the hotel when it opened, was on a snorkeling trip in the North Sound with Mr. Rutty’s partner and another couple last Wednesday af- ternoon when the incident happened. Mr. Rutty said the 71-year- old had a history of health problems and apparently suffered a stroke or heart at- tack in the water. “Roger was very comfort- able in the water, he didn’t get into any difficulties snor- keling,” said Mr. Rutty. He said his partner had struggled against the cur- rent to pull him back to the boat where another friend attempted to revive him through CPR. He said she had noticed Mr. Enrico had been going against the current and she swam out with a life ring to assist. When she reached him, he was not conscious. “She did everything she could. She tried her best to save him. She’s a very tough girl and she was pretty ex- hausted herself,” he said. Mr. Rutty said he was unable to be on the boat trip, but he had planned to join the group for dinner at the Italian Kitchen on Wednesday night. “When they called to tell me Roger had died, I couldn’t believe it. I thought I was having a nightmare,” said Mr. Rutty. He said he first got to know Mr. Enrico more than 25 years ago through an- other Pepsi executive, Alan Pottasch, who had a home in East End. He said they had become great friends and traveled to- gether frequently, including on diving trips to Cuba. “He loved to dive; he would dive almost every day when he was down here,” he added. When Mr. Rutty opened the Comfort Suites hotel in 2000, both Mr. Enrico and Mr. Pottasch, who is deceased, were involved in the venture. “He was a very intelligent man, great conversation and very successful in business,” said Mr. Rutty. “He was the man who made Pepsi what it is today. He bought Gatorade and Tropicana orange juice, he started the Aquafina water business. Under him, the company went up and up and up.” Along with Mr. Pottasch, Mr. Enrico is credited with some of Pepsi’s most iconic ad campaigns, involving ce- lebrities like Michael Jackson and Madonna. He was la- beled the “Cola King” during the 1980s for his success in elevating the Pepsi brand to compete with Coca Cola. “He loved the water, he loved to snorkel and scuba dive. He had dived all over the world, but his favorite place was the Cayman Islands.” BURNS RUTTY ‘Cola King’ died in Cayman doing what he loved ATLANTA (AP) – More than 17 million people on the East Coast were in the path of what could be se- vere thunderstorms, dam- aging winds and tornadoes on Sunday. In Florida, the governor and top emergency offi- cials were keeping an eye on a system developing near Mexico’s Yucatan Penin- sula that could bring any- where from 5 to 10 inches of rain beginning Sunday. The wacky weather comes at the end of a week of scorching temperatures out West and flooding that killed nine soldiers when their military vehicle got caught in the rushing waters of a rain-swollen creek at Fort Hood, Texas. The hurricane season is just a few days old, and its third named storm may be developing near Mexi- co’s Yucatan Peninsula. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says the system has a good chance of forming into a tropical cyclone, and even if it does not, it will still bring heavy rains along the Gulf Coast. Police in St. Petersburg distributed sandbags and Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned residents, tour- ists and businesses to be prepared. Florida’s emergency man- agement director Bryan Koon said they expected a fast-moving storm, which means it could mature rap- idly. The severe weather could last through Tuesday. “Even if this system does not develop into a named storm, it still poses significant risks from flooding, damaging winds and tornadoes, and rip cur- rents,” he said. If the storm does develop, it would be named Colin. Meanwhile, more than 17 million people in Wash- ington, D.C., Baltimore, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Caro- lina, were looking at an “enhanced” risk of severe thunderstorms Sunday, ac- cording to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center. Damaging winds, a tor- nado or two and marginally severe hail were expected from the Southeast to as far north as New York. The wacky weather comes at the end of a week of scorching temperatures out West and flooding that killed nine soldiers. Mid-Atlantic braces for storms In this June 14, 1985, file photo, Roger Enrico poses in his office in Purchase, New York. - PHOTO: AP BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb will not learn his sentence in the FIFA racketeering in- vestigation until at least November, according to of- ficials in the U.S. District Court for New York State’s Eastern District. Webb’s sentencing was adjourned Friday morning by District Court Judge Raymond Dearie until Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. No reason was given for delaying sentencing, which had been scheduled for June 3. Webb faces potential prison time and deportation in connection with his role in the ongoing FIFA racke- teering and bribery scandal. The former FIFA vice president and president of the Cayman Islands Foot- ball Association pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the U.S. last November. The seven criminal counts include racketeering, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. Webb’s sentencing set for November The tropical wave that dumped more than two inches of rain on the Cayman Islands over the past several days con- tinued to move north, and forecasters expect the system will turn into a tropical storm Sunday night or Monday. Heavy rains battered Cayman, but the islands were spared flooding. The National Weather Service posted a small craft warning for Sunday and small craft advi- sories for Monday and Tuesday. Weather Service fore- casters said Sunday they expected the rain showers and clouds to decrease starting Monday. The U.S. National Hurri- cane Center in Miami said Sunday the tropical wave has a 90 percent chance of developing into a tropical storm by Tuesday. 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The petition, put forward by Caymanians United to Sus- pend GM Mosquitoes, calls for at least a six-month suspen- sion of the planned release, citing concerns about the transparency of the project and “contradictory informa- tion regarding the effects and capabilities” of the genetically modified mosquitoes. “We, the concerned resi- dents of the Cayman Islands, condemn the decision of the Cayman Islands Government to support the launch and re- lease of the Genetically Mod- ified Mosquitoes project with Oxitec, in collaboration with the MRCU … without first conducting a public consul- tation with the Caymanian people and the residents of the Cayman Islands,” the peti- tion states. Dwene Ebanks, who spear- heads the opposition move- ment, said he and others opposed to the project are “uncomfortable” about what they say they have “uncovered” during their own research and believe there is information about the mosquitoes that is not being shared. One con- cern is that a small number of GM female mosquitoes will be released with the GM male mosquitoes. Female Aedis aegypti can carry viruses like Zika, chi- kungunya, and dengue fever. “They said that they were releasing only males, how- ever, when pressed they ad- mitted there would be females released as well,” said Katina Masura Anglin, writing to the Compass on behalf of the Caymanians United group. “If they are releasing the males to mate with the female [Aedis aegypti], why do they need to release female [geneti- cally modified mosquitoes] as well?” According to Oxitec Cayman Ltd. project man- ager Renaud Lacroix, a few females “slip through” during the sorting process that is done with a wired sieve, and those that are accidentally re- leased “do not increase the risk” of virus transmission in the release area. The females that are re- leased are not disease-ridden because they have been bred in the laboratory, Mr. Lacriox said, and they are “unlikely to survive long enough for the virus to develop in them. They have adapted to the lab- oratory conditions where food and water are freely available and predators absent, so once they are in the environment they do not survive as well as the wild females,” he said, adding that once the mos- quito bites someone infected by dengue, Zika, or chikun- gunya, it takes five to 10 days before they can transmit it to someone else. The female mosquitoes, like the males, also carry a “self-limiting gene” so their offspring die before reaching adulthood, Mr. Lacriox said. The Caymanians United group is also concerned by re- ports that the outbreak of Zika and cases of microcephaly in babies in Brazil were con- nected to Oxitec’s release of GM mosquitoes there. Several media outlets have circulated this claim which began on a Reddit thread in January, but it has since been refuted by several fact-checkers. “Regarding the rumors, of- ficial and independent bodies have denied them so I will not add any comment,” Mr. Lac- riox said, noting that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has stated that microcephaly is caused by Zika, not by Ox- itec mosquitoes. The Caymanians United group is also concerned about the number of mosquitoes that will be released (22 mil- lion in the initial rollout) and what they view as the exper- imental nature of the project. PETITION CALLS FOR HALT TO GM MOSQUITO RELEASE CHARLES DUNCAN cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com A stayover tourist tested positive for Zika after re- turning home, the Public Health Department said Friday. The department has not confirmed whether the person contracted Zika in Cayman, but this is the first case of the virus, which can cause birth de- fects in babies from in- fected mothers, associated with Cayman. Dr. Samuel Williams, head of public health for the Cayman Islands, said overseas health officials notified his office of the in- fection on June 1. In a statement, Dr. Wil- liams said, “My office con- tacted the individual and we are in ongoing com- munication to ascertain the exact details of the in- dividual’s travel history, onset of symptoms and lo- cation of stay during the visit to the Islands in- cluding other pertinent information that will as- sist in this investigation to confirm the alleged ex- posure to the Zika virus in the Cayman Islands.” The Cayman Islands is one of the few countries in the Caribbean that has not had documented local transmission of the mos- quito-borne Zika virus. Almost every country in the Caribbean, Cen- tral America and South America have cases of Zika contracted locally, ac- cording to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Williams said the public health department has alerted government and others to the possible Zika transmission and will release a full report once an investigation is com- pleted into the cause and potential exposure to the virus in Cayman. Only about 20 percent of people who contract Zika will show symptoms. The virus is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito or through sexual intercourse with an infected person, and the symptoms are sim- ilar to those of dengue or chikungunya, which are spread by the same type of mosquito. The most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint and muscle pain and headache, and can last several days to a week. The biggest dangers from Zika are for pregnant women. Zika can cause severe birth defects in babies born to infected women. The public health de- partment and the Mos- quito Research and Control Unit have been working to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito populations on the island through public education campaigns and by spraying pesticides. The MRCU is also working with researchers from the firm Oxitec to release ge- netically modified mosqui- toes that have been shown to reduce the Aedes aegypti population by more than 95 percent. Aedes aegypti are noto- riously hard to control, ac- cording to MRCU director Bill Petrie, because they breed in standing water in and around homes. The best way to control the Aedes mosquitoes, he said, is to dump standing water and make sure they do not have anywhere to breed, such as old tires, bird baths, clogged gutters and anywhere else that collects rainwater. Tourist tests positive for Zika On May 5, an Oxitec employee places his hand inside a mesh box with GM mosquitoes to demonstrate that the male Aedes aegypti do not bite. 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. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY: Caymanian Compass Limited (a subsidiary of Pinnacle Media Ltd) Compass Centre Shedden Road, George Town SEND US YOUR VIEWS OR NEWS: P.O. Box 1365 Grand Cayman KY1-1108, Cayman Islands Telephone: (345) 815-0095 Email: newsdesk@pinnaclemedialtd.com ADVERTISE WITH US: Telephone: (345) 949-5111 Email: sales@pinnaclemedialtd.com Website: www.caymancompass.com PUBLISHERS DAVID R. LEGGE AND VICKI L. LEGGE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DAVID R. LEGGE A MEMBER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION “Give light and the people will findtheirownway” “The path we are on is the closest that the country has ever been to having a waste management solution that will not only help solve the problem that we now call Mount Trashmore, but will ensure that there are no more Mount Trashmores. We are identifying the best way forward as well as finding funding sources.” – Premier Alden McLaughlin, 2016-2017 Budget Policy Statement Rummaging through the Premier’s recent talk about the George Town Landfill in the Legislative Assembly, and stripping away all the caveats and promises, we can scavenge a single statement of sub- stance: “[W]e will not have a system in place by the end of this term[.]” There it is, at last, the white flag of surrender. The treacherous Mount Trashmore has claimed victory over yet another Cayman Islands government admin- istration. Although the landfill solution will not arise during this government’s dwindling lifespan, Premier McLaughlin said he expects to “see shovels in the ground next year.” Of that, we have no doubt: With the next election less than a year away, there is no greater certainty than the quadrennial spectacle of elected officials wielding gold-colored shovels in any number of districts, breaking ground on a variety of projects that may or may not happen. In respect to the landfill itself, we’re sure that there are plenty of “shovels in the ground” already – along with spades, rakes, paper, plastic, chemicals and the entire cornucopia of waste generated in this country over the past 25-plus years. The Premier said, “I admit that I smile wryly when I hear some in the press and elsewhere repeating over and over – ‘Just fix the dump’. I smile because if the fix was that easy, then past governments would have fixed it already.” The Premier may claim that Cayman is closer than it’s ever been to a solid waste management solution, but we are highly skeptical. Meanwhile, as our govern- ment continues to contract with consultants who, in turn, submit more reports and studies, our eyes are focused on the recently released research, conducted in Italy, that correlates lung and pulmonary disorders (including death) with living close to a landfill. As our readers, and voters, are well aware, the previous United Democratic Party government had reached an agreement where the Dart Group would take over management of the George Town Landfill, cap it, close it, turn it into a green space and, ulti- mately, turn it back over to the public – and also create a new lined landfill in the far east corner of the district of Bodden Town (between two quarries, none- theless) – in exchange for … nothing, except the privi- lege of beautifying a piece of public property which happens to adjoin Dart’s (and Cayman’s) premier devel- opment, Camana Bay. Not only did Premier McLaughlin and his Progres- sives government spurn the $60 million proposal after being elected, their Bodden Town candidates made the rejection of the Dart deal a key plank in their campaign platform. Remember, or rather, never forget: “No Dump in Bodden Town!” The Progressives promised they had an onsite solution for the landfill. But they didn’t, they still don’t and, even if they did, they don’t have the $100 million- plus it is now likely to cost. So, excuse us, Mr. McLaughlin, for not smiling when the subject of the landfill comes up. As for the face we are making – that’s us, grimacing and wrinkling our noses … at the sight, and the smell, of the single largest hazard threatening the public health of the Cayman population. On the landfill: No plan, no timetable – and no money MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS Britain’s political silliness LONDON – Misery loves company, so refugees from America’s Republican Party should understand that theirs is not the only party that has chosen a leader who confirms caricatures of it while repu- diating its purposes. Jeremy Corbyn, the silliest leader in the British Labour Party’s 116-year history, might kill satire as well as whatever re- mains of socialism. Labour was founded in 1900 to demonstrate that a 19th-century political prophet was mistaken. Karl Marx had proclaimed that meaningful amelioration of working-class conditions could not be achieved by non- revolutionary, parliamentary means. Labour helped make modern Britain into a mostly middle- class, generally tem- perate nation impervious to exotic politics. In the 1983 election, the last time Labour flirted with serious socialism, its mani- festo (platform) was described as “the longest suicide note in history,” and a party ac- tivist advocated “no compro- mise with the electorate.” The electorate was not amused, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher continued residing at 10 Downing Street. That year, Corbyn was elected to the House of Commons. He spent his next 32 years opposing the mon- archy; writing columns for a Communist newspaper; ex- pressing admiration for Hugo Chavez, whose socialism pro- pelled Venezuela toward to- day’s chaos; proposing that taxpayers should be per- mitted to opt out of paying for Britain’s army; advocating that Britain leave NATO and unilaterally scrap its nuclear deterrent; blaming NATO, meaning the United States, for Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine; calling the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah “friends”; appearing with and funding Holocaust deniers and other anti-Semites; criti- cizing China’s Communist re- gime for deviationism in ac- cepting some free markets; demanding that Tony Blair, the only Labour leader since 1976 to win a general election (three of them), be tried as a war criminal (for supporting the Iraq War); praising Iraqi insurgents killing Americans; and calling the killing of Osama bin Laden a “tragedy.” Along the way, Corbyn got di- vorced because his wife in- sisted on sending their el- dest son to a selective school whose admissions policy rec- ognized merit. Last September, in a La- bour Party process in which an intense fraction of 1 per- cent of the British electorate participated – a cohort in- tensely interested in things other than winning the next election – Corbyn was elected party leader with 59.5 per- cent of the vote in a four- way contest. He promptly named as shadow chancellor of the exchequer a former union official who lists in “Who’s Who” his hobby as “fomenting the overthrow of capitalism,” who says he was joking when he said that if he could relive the 1980s he would have assassinated Thatcher but who was se- rious when he praised IRA terrorist bombers. Corbyn’s shadow farming minister, a vegan, says, “Meat should be treated in exactly the same way as tobacco, with public campaigns to stop people eating it.” Corbyn, appearing with unmatched jacket and trousers and with his tie loosened at a St. Paul’s Ca- thedral service commemo- rating the Royal Air Force’s heroism in the Battle of Britain, refused to sing the national anthem. In 1937, George Orwell, a socialist disgusted with many socialists, published “The Road to Wigan Pier,” half of which consisted of reportage about working- class privations in England’s industrial north. In the other half, which the publisher of the Left Book Club wanted to omit from the club’s edi- tion, Orwell decried the so- cialist movement’s “smell of crankishness,” “the sandals and the pistachio-colored shirts” of “every vegetarian, teetotaler” and other exem- plars of “priggishness” and “half-baked ‘progressivism.’” Corbyn is an apple that did not fall far from the tree: His parents met at a rally ad- vocating peace in the Spanish Civil War. They got their wish. Peace came. When Gen. Fran- cisco Franco came to Madrid. Corbyn is a vegetarian who does not own a car. He does own – perhaps Al Gore knows why; Gore went through an earth tones phase – many beige clothes bought from street vendors. With his Greek fisher- man’s cap, Corbyn is a reac- tionary dressed as a revolu- tionary whose slogan could be “Onward to 1945!” Nos- talgic for Labour’s commit- ment (long dead when in- terred by Blair in 1995) to “common ownership of the means of production, dis- tribution and exchange,” Corbyn favors re-national- izing the railroads and some energy companies. Financial Times columnist Janan Ganesh sees Corbyn as a symptom of broad so- cial contentment. Corbynism is the persuasion “of people who can afford to treat pol- itics as a source of gaiety and affirmation. ... They are in politics for the dopamine squirt that comes with total belief and immersion in like- minded company.” So, they are not unlike America’s Sandernistas and Trumpkins. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group GEORGE F. 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Risk Free 30 da ys Tr us t Mechanical G ua ran tee BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Cayman Islands Opposi- tion Leader McKeeva Bush has accused the Progres- sives-led government of “misleading” the public with the release of its 18-month budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Mr. Bush told the Legisla- tive Assembly on Friday that it was difficult to compare the projected results of the current financial year, which ends on June 30, with govern- ment plans for the upcoming 18-month period, which ends on Dec. 31, 2017. “It’s not a good process,” Mr. Bush said. The opposition leader noted that there had been $100 million-plus operating surpluses recorded in each of the last three government budgets, but in the 2016/17 spending plan the surplus had dropped to $48 million over the 18 months covered. Finance Minister Marco Archer has explained that the decline was due to the budget encompassing two lower rev- enue-earning periods during the tourism “slow season” – typically between August and December – and only one “high earning” period – between January and April, when government collects most of its annual fees. Mr. Bush asked why gov- ernment did not put out a 12- month surplus figure for the first year of the upcoming budget. “Isn’t it that the surplus would be greatly reduced and is therefore not being shown?” he said. Mr. Bush said, by his re- view of the budget, govern- ment has spent about $36 million more between its first budget in 2013/14 and the 2015/16 budget. “The reality is that as rev- enues have grown, they have allowed expenditure – as much as they say they have cut back – they allowed it to grow once again,” he said. Mr. Bush said new fees and taxes implemented by the former United Democratic Party government between 2010 and 2012 were needed to stave off the last round of overspending by the previous Progressives administration in 2005-2009. That govern- ment’s 2008/09 budget ended with an operating deficit of $81 million. “These revenue measures were very unpopular at the time,” Mr. Bush said of in- creases to work permit fees and added fees to the finan- cial services industry. “Did we want to implement them? No. “They have not rolled back any [of] these fees,” Mr. Bush said. “They have not rolled back any work permit fees, which we acknowledged should only last until the economy and finance turned around.” The administration has noted a number of tax breaks for consumers and busi- nesses in the past three years, including a 2 percent reduction in duty for licensed importers, reduction or elim- ination of trade and busi- ness licensing fees for small and micro-businesses, and a 50 cent per gallon reduction in stamp duty charged to Ca- ribbean Utilities Company on the import of diesel fuel. Minister Archer estimated the tax breaks had cost the government close to $30 mil- lion annually in revenues. Mr. Bush said the “tar- geted” tax cuts did not ap- pear to be making an impact for the average Caymanian. Minister hails tourist spending increase Cruise, air make similar contributions JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Growing tourist numbers added almost US$90 mil- lion in direct spending to the economy between 2013 and 2015, with the contribution split almost evenly between cruise and stay-over visitors. Delivering his budget ad- dress last week, Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell said the industry is thriving. He said the boom in vis- itors’ numbers led to more spending, new business op- portunities, more taxi li- censes and increased room- tax revenue for government. Cruise tourism increased by 341,000 between 2013 and 2015. Air arrivals increased by 40,000 in the same two- year period. Cruise tourists typically spend an average of $115 per day, meaning a net increase of just over $39 million from that sector. Stay-over visitors stay, on average, just under a week and spend $183 per day, which amounts to a net spending increase of just over $50 million. Mr. Kirkconnell said the even split in terms of eco- nomic contribution justifies the government’s dual focus on both sectors. Though stay-over tourists contribute significantly more individually to the economy, he said high-volume cruise tourism also represents an important spending block. “We should also remember that approximately three months of cruise travel brings roughly the same number of visitors to our shores as one year’s worth of stay-over guests,” he said. He acknowledged that in- creased numbers of tour- ists place stress on public areas, particularly Cayman’s beaches, but said the pursuit of cruise tourism would not be at the expense of stay-over visitors. “We are working towards achieving a balance for the two sectors to coexist with ease, to benefit all who de- pend on both areas for their jobs and livelihood,” he said. Mr. Kirkconnell again de- fended government’s decision to pursue the construction of new cruise berthing facil- ities in George Town harbor. Engineers are working to find a more environmen- tally friendly design, while a funding model that can meet U.K. Foreign and Common- wealth Office approval has yet to be established. The tourism minister said the government believes getting the project done is important to the island’s eco- nomic future. He expects that opening of Cuba to cruise tourism will provide dual destination opportunities involving the Cayman Islands. But, he said, while cruise lines and their passengers may tolerate a lack of facilities in a new and novel destination like Cuba, they are “unlikely to accept an itinerary that includes two ports back-to-back where tenders are the only means of disembarkation.” On March 23, seven cruise ships brought 24,000 tourists to Grand Cayman. - PHOTO: TANEOS RAMSAY Bush: Gov’t ‘misleading’ public in 18-month budgetMONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS 6 DISTRICT DAYS District Days George Town In the June 8, 1966 edition of the Caymanian Weekly, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, news from George Town included: “On the 3rd of June, Members of the Legislative Assembly and representatives from the Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Board, Hotels Association and the air- lines assembled at the airport at 10 a.m. “They were taken on a conducted tour of the airport reconstruction ar- ranged by Mr. F.G. Cook, Mr. D.M. Rennie and Mr. F. Cartwright. “Starting at the quarry, the party were able to witness the setting off of a charge and see the quarry machinery working. Returning to the airport itself, they were shown all aspects of mixing, laying and testing the asphalt and con- crete and were particularly interested in the testing as they had not realized that so much went into this. “All were entertained to coffee break by the consultants and contractors and left feeling very grateful to them for a most interesting and informative morning. “It is understood that, following a suggestion from Mr. Craddock Ebanks, MLA for North Side, it may be possible from time to time, for small groups of the general public to be given an oppor- tunity to share in a similar exercise. “A scholarship to attend a college in Leicester, England for a three-year course in teacher training has been awarded to Mary Hurlston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hurlston of George Town. “Mary, who graduated from the Cayman Secondary Grammar School and has been on the staff of the school during the past few months, will commence her studies at the College in September.” 50 Years ago: Business representatives tour airport The good will behind Yolanni’s Place ALMA CHOLLETTE achollette@pinnaclemedialtd.com For local restaurateur Dar- lene Manzanares, running her own restaurant has been a dream of more than 30 years. After her place was burglarized and after several moves, Ms. Man- zanares, through the kindness of strangers, has managed to keep that dream alive. Now, with one bowl of free soup at a time, she is giving back to those in need. Born into a family of bakers and cooks, Ms. Manzanares, grand- daughter of the late Rupert George Moxam, said to be one of the first commercial bakers on is- land, opened Yolanni’s Place restau- rant on Main Street in downtown George Town on April 1. Ms. Manzanares’s daughter Yolanni, who is a budding chef and hospitality major, is the inspiration behind the restaurant’s name. Overcoming challenges The journey to Yolanni’s Place was challenging. Before the Main Street location, Ms. Manzanares was stationed on Shedden Road, a location at which she was able to serve a cross-section of customers. “We did [well] for the time we were there,” said Ms. Manzanares, but the place was burglarized seven times within 10 months. “After the last break-in, I had sus- tained a lot of damage to the struc- ture. They had actually broken into the kitchen area, stole commercial gas and the A/C,” she said, “and that alone had brought me into a finan- cial strain to replace those things.” The first Yolanni’s closed down within 10 months of opening. Ms. Manzanares didn’t quit. She soon started operating from home, taking orders and making deliveries. She also set up a food stall on Cardinall Avenue on Thursdays, as part of the Pirates Week Committee’s initiative to assist local vendors. Licensing issues With that initiative coming to an end, she moved her stand to North Church Street, but it was not long before she was forced to leave the area after getting three no- tices from the Department of Com- merce and Investment. She believed her paperwork was in order, including a Department of Health certificate, and a renewed trade and business license. “I realized shortly after [moving] that some competitors in the area, some [which were] restaurant owners, were troubled or disturbed that I was operating there,” she said. “So then I started to come under at- tack,” after complaints were made about her establishment. Ms. Manzanares was invited to go to a premises across the street – “ [and] pretty much to set up my business there,” she said. However, things did not work out there and she moved out. Once again she set up shop as a vendor on the street, only to be served notice once again by the De- partment of Commerce and Invest- ment, who informed her that she had to move in February. The issue with licensing from the DCI has came up most re- cently in regard to vendors on Seven Mile Beach and West Bay Public Beach, but the regulations apply to all vendors. DCI Director Ryan Rajkumars- ingh recently told the Cayman Com- pass that vendors are required to obtain a license if they wish to sell their wares on public property. According to section 18 of the Trade and Business Licensing Law: “Where the applicant will be car- rying on business in a public place, [he or she must have] evidence of approval of the relevant authority to carry on business in such a place.” Fourteen days after receiving her first notice, Ms. Manzanares re- ceived a letter informing her that she had to leave the premises, and 14 days later, DCI officers served her a third and final notice of eviction. “I was saddened that I may have [had] to shut down,” she said. “It was embarrassing to me [because] it felt like the end of the road, after being pressured time and time again.” A surprise gift The morning she was served the final notice, some regular customers were having a meal. The customers, who were doc- tors from a Carnival Cruise ship, made a contribution Ms. Man- zanares did not expect. On the evening of her eviction, she received a call inviting her to check out a space on Main Street, and despite thinking it was a joke, she met with an agent there the fol- lowing morning at 11 a.m. The following week, a payment of two months’ rent, a utility de- posit, a refrigerator and new sup- plies had been presented on be- half of Ms. Manzanares, who said the contribution was valued at $10,000. The three doctors, who wish to remain anonymous, are the Good Samaritans behind her dream. Giving back through ‘Soup Days’ Now, at Yolanni’s place, every Monday since April 4, Ms. Man- zanares has featured “Soup Day.” The charitable venture grew out of her experience of moving to North Church Street, where she would encounter those who were hungry on a daily basis. She started giving them the food she had not sold on that day. “And this is why [Soup Day] came about,” she said. “It may not be a lot I can offer, but if someone can take a value [from] a bowl of soup the way I took value [from being] pulled off the street, then I know [I’ve done something] good.” Although at times she offers more than soup, as Ms. Manzanares says, “sometimes a bowl of soup isn’t enough for somebody.” During her second week of hosting “Soup Day” back in April, when the Cayman Compass sat down with Ms. Manzanares, she mentioned five people who showed a genuine need at the time. A month later, she was serving soup to 11 people in need. The thought of one individual in particular, Ms. Manzanares recalled, kept her awake at night. “He was a wreck,” Ms. Man- zanares said. “He said [to me] ‘Ms. Darlene, you know, it’s been two days since I didn’t eat.’” The man, according to her, sur- vived on eating green mangoes, and as a result had blistered lips. Having fed the man, who walked in with only $2 for food, Ms. Man- zanares recalled having trouble falling asleep that night, as he had broken down in her restaurant and told her of his troubles. “This is what we have to do,” she said, “we have to help one an- other. “Every Monday morning, I look forward to serving soup; it’s really rewarding to the point where I see someone having a bowl of warm soup.” According to the Bodden Town resident, who wishes to encourage those in need to come forward, “As long as I have a food business, none will go to the garbage.” “[Never] in my wildest dreams did I think I would get the help I re- ceived,” said Ms. Manzanares, who said “Soup Day” will continue as long as she’s there. Darlene Manzanares, the owner of Yolanni’s Place restuarant in downtown George Town.7 LOCAL NEWS CAYMAN COMPASS • MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 7 LOCAL Isy B.’s fashion show at Sand Angels featured ‘Formal daytime’ and ‘Cayman night’ lines. Elegant fashions for day and night were featured on the runway. Isy B. launched her new collection at Sand Angels in Camana Bay on June 2. - PHOTOS: MATT LAMERS Harriet Martin and Amy StrzalkoJohn Broad Sarah Broad and Joannah Small Monette Windsor, Odette Samson and Trinda Blackmore Rosie Twohey and Charmaine Richter Cayman Islands fashion designer Isy B. launched her new collection on a runway in front of Sand Angels in Camana Bay on June 2. The collection, available at Sand Angels, will be released internationally later this year. The show featured Isy B.’s “formal daytime” and “Cayman night” lines. Proceeds from ticket sales went to the NCVO Caring Cousins Lunch Support Program, which provides school lunches to children in need across Cayman. The islands’ most-trusted news source 8 MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS deficit. Rather, it congratulates fund managers for “strong in- vestment performances” in re- cent years. However, those strong earnings were offset by re- tirees living longer than ex- pected, the cost of benefits provided and the lower con- tributions made on behalf of employees. “For many years, the con- tributions made to the plan have been very low relative to the cost of benefits that have been accruing under the plan,” the Mercer report states. “The [defined benefit] plan has reached a mature stage where the benefit payments being paid out of the fund are expected to grow rap- idly and will begin to exceed the contributions being made into the defined benefit part of the plan. “By 2024, benefit payments are projected to ex- ceed contributions by about $15 million per year and by 2024, this difference will have grown to $35 million per year.” The pensions board re- ported just last month that unless government increases employee contributions to the main civil service retirement fund, the defined benefit pen- sion plan would be depleted by 2024. Public Service Pensions Plan actuaries have estimated that the civil servants’ de- fined benefit retirement plan was underfunded by between $166 million and $226 mil- lion, meaning the plan’s as- sets would be significantly lower than its liabilities when estimated over a 20-year pe- riod. This is why the $16 mil- lion per year contribution from government has been recommended. It is not a debt or shortfall that government has to pay immediately. However, actu- aries were concerned enough about the status of the fund to determine that: “A contin- uation of the current level of contributions to the defined benefit plan is projected to re- sult in the depletion of the de- fined benefit allocated fund by the year 2024.” That comment was in the Public Service Pen- sions Board’s annual report for government’s 2014/15 budget year. The financial evaluation of the fund recommends that government increase its 12 percent of salary contribution toward civil servant retire- ment plans to between 16 per- cent and 19 percent of sala- ries. If such action were taken, it would represent a 4 percent to 7 percent pay cut for civil servants. Cayman’s 20-year pension bill: $320 million Free anti-bullying camp for kids offered KELSEY JUKAM kjukam@pinnaclemedialtd.com As government considers whether to enact a legislative or policy-based anti-bullying strategy, one man is taking matters into his own hands to help equip kids with the skills and knowledge they need to defuse or avoid bul- lying situations. This summer, Krav Maga Cayman owner Ronnie James Hughes is offering a Kids Krav Maga Anti-Bullying camp as a crash course in safety, security and aware- ness, and to boost kids’ con- fidence. He is offering the training for free to those whose parents cannot afford to pay for a summer camp to make sure that all kids, re- gardless of their economic situation, have access to this opportunity. Kids can train for free if they or their parents are as- sociated with any care homes, shelters or other nonprofits such as the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre or Big Brothers Big Sisters. The camp is also free to kids if their parents can afford to pay a fee. “There’s a big class divide in Cayman, and so there are many young kids that don’t have the sort of funds to go to these summer camps be- cause they’re too expensive,” Mr. Hughes said. Mr. Hughes said that growing up, he “didn’t re- ally have much either,” so he wasn’t able to go to summer camps like other kids. How- ever, he did have the oppor- tunity to train with a boxing coach at a gym. “That stuck [with] me all my life, and so I just wanted to give the kids that really need it more than anyone else the opportunity to come and enjoy something, and also to give their parents a break,” Mr. Hughes said. “It’s just fun if you can take a group of kids and teach them some- thing in the space of like a month, and it’s life-changing for them.” The camp will teach kids ages 4 to 12 the elements of Krav Maga, an Israeli martial art that Mr. Hughes describes as a “no-rules form of self-de- fense” that encompasses ev- erything from jiu jitsu, judo, kickboxing and karate to Muay Thai. The camp will focus largely on grappling, which is a way to use timing and leverage to neutralize an attack, rather than relying on strength or brute force. The camp also aims to educate kids on what bullying is and how to stop it, whether they are a victim of bullying, a bystander, or a bully themselves. Mr. Hughes said there will be plenty of games and lots of fun challenges for the kids in an environment that is not too “rigid” like some karate schools. “The camp itself is de- signed to be fun,” Mr. Hughes said. “It’s designed to teach kids non-striking forms of self-defense. By teaching them grappling and jiu jitsu and Krav Maga, we’re giving them the tools to be able to neutralize a threat without causing any real damage.” Mr. Hughes said he con- siders Krav Maga to be a form of “physical communication” which can be used as a last resort when verbal communi- cation fails to be useful. “If a bully doesn’t have the educational, or the logical or the cognitive ability to see what they’re doing is wrong, and they get frustrated, they’re just going to lash out and do something physical, so you need to learn how to speak that language, as well as being logical.” Mr. Hughes said he hopes to teach kids that abusive behavior is not acceptable, and ways they can protect themselves. The training, he said, is “very empowering.” Empowering those in need has become a regular part of Krav Maga Cayman’s opera- tions. Mr. Hughes has provided much support to the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre and is currently offering a free month of Krav Maga instruction to anyone who attended the crisis centre’s recent “Strength of a Woman” luncheon. “If you’ve got a facility, an opportunity and a good group of people, then why not?” Mr. Hughes said. “There’s no agenda behind it. I have a gym, there’s a lot of kids that need training and their par- ents need a break. I’m not here to make money. I’m here to make a difference.” For more information or to register for the summer camp, email Mr. Hughes at ronniejameshughes@yahoo.com. Krav Maga Cayman director and instructor Ronnie James Hughes is offerring free anti-bullying training to kids this summer. Obama scrambling to release Guantanamo detainees WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama ad- ministration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many pris- oners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some men to strike plea deals by video- teleconference and sending others to foreign countries to be prosecuted. But it looks to be little, too late to close the prison before President Barack Obama leaves office in January, denying him the chance to fulfill a cam- paign pledge. There’s the difficulty in transferring prisoners from the U.S. base in Cuba, questions about the legality of plea deals and solid opposition in Congress to anything that might help Obama achieve that promise. “The clock has struck midnight and the American people have won,” said Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., who has said he would oppose any ef- fort to move detainees to prison facil- ities in his state. “The president needs to admit that.” Later this month, lawmakers are on track to extend a ban on moving detainees to U.S. soil. That would leave the president with no way to make the January 2017 deadline, bar- ring an unexpected reversal in Con- gress or a politically explosive execu- tive order. The White House increasingly is pointed to a parallel strategy: trying to shrink the number of detainees in hopes of persuading lawmakers that Guantanamo is too expensive to sus- tain as a prison. Of the 80 remaining detainees, 30 have been cleared for an overseas transfer. Most will leave starting in late June and continuing into July, according to a U.S. official. Those prisoners will go to a number of countries, including at least one in Europe, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the administration had not authorized public release of the information. Seven additional detainees are facing trial by military commission, including five charged with planning and supporting the Sept. 11 attacks. Three others have been convicted. But commission proceedings have gone on at a glacial pace. In April, the Pentagon put forward fresh proposals for Guantanamo, but none has been incorporated into defense legislation moving through Congress. The remaining 40 were either at one time considered for prosecution or held as indefinite “law of war detainees” until the end of hostilities in the fight against terrorism that began after the 2001 attacks. The United States started using Guantanamo for suspects in Jan- uary 2002; at its peak, the facility held about 680 prisoners. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 A cell in Camp 6 at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Running out of time and options to close the detention center, the Obama administration is scrambling to release as many prisoners as it can. - PHOTO: AP9 LOCAL NEWS CAYMAN COMPASS • MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 General Mills and Essential Everyday products recalled Customers who have bought certain brands of flour, trail mix, protein bars, nut bars and lemon drops may be affected by a number of recent product recalls. Foster’s Food Fair IGA is pulling certain Essential Everyday brand products and from its shelves due to possible listeria contami- nation, the company an- nounced in a press release Friday. Customers who have bought 7.4-ounce bags of Essential Everyday Fruit and Nut Trail Mix or five- count boxes of Essential Ev- eryday protein bars should not consume them and should return the items to any Foster’s, Priced Right or Bay Market location for a full refund. Listeria can cause se- rious and sometimes fatal infections in young chil- dren, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals exposed to the listeria organism can suffer short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe head- ache, stiffness, nausea, ab- dominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria can also cause mis- carriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. SuperValu, which dis- tributes Essential Everyday products, is also recalling Essential Everyday Lemon Drops with a specific lot code, due to the product not meeting quality standards. Foster’s has not received any of these affected prod- ucts, the company said in a press release, but it is en- couraging customers who bought this product from any Foster’s Food Fair IGA to check both the “Best By” dates and lot codes. The affected product has the lot code PD1 and Best By date 01/18/17. Nature Valley bars General Mills is vol- untarily recalling select flavors of Nature Valley Pro- tein Chewy Bars and Nature Valley Simple Nut Bars. The recall is also listeria- related and is being issued due to the expansion of a SunOpta sunflower kernel recall for the potential pres- ence of the bacterium. All Foster’s Food Fair IGA locations carry the af- fected product. Consumers should check if they have bought the affected prod- ucts, which are: Nature Valley Pro- tein Chewy Bar – Honey, Peanut and Almond with Pumpkin Seeds, 5 count, Case UPC: 100-16000-47196, Package UPC: 000-16000- 47196; Nature Valley Pro- tein Chewy Bar – Peanut, Almond and Dark Choco- late, 5 count, Case UPC: 100-16000-45724, Package UPC: 000-16000-45724; Na- ture Valley Simple Nut Bar – Almond, Cashew and Sea Salt, 4 count, Case UPC: 100- 16000-46474, Package UPC: 000-16000-46474; Nature Valley Simple Nut Bar – Roasted Peanut and Honey, 4 count, Case UPC: 100- 16000-46475, Package UPC: 000-16000-46475; and Na- ture Valley Simple Nut Bar – Roasted Peanut and Honey, 16 count, Case UPC: 100- 16000-41308, Package UPC: 000-16000-41308. Flour recall Another recall is for sev- eral types of flour, in the wake of an ongoing outbreak of E. coli 0121 in the United States that may potentially be linked to Gold Medal flour, Wondra flour, and Signature Kitchens flour. Although E. coli 0121 has not yet been found in any General Mills flour products or in the flour manufacturing facility, and the company has not been contacted directly by any consumer reporting confirmed illnesses relating to these products, the com- pany says it is voluntarily re- calling the products “out of an abundance of caution.” E. coli 0121 is a poten- tially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The elderly, young children and people with compromised immune systems are the most suscep- tible to the foodborne illness. Individuals should not consume any raw products made with flour. Customers who have bought certain flour products from Foster’s, Priced Right or Bay Market, should check the “Best By” dates and lot codes, discontinue consumption and return the product for a full refund. The affected flour prod- ucts are: 13.5 ounce Gold Medal Wondra Flour, UPC 000-16000-18980, used by dates 25FEB2107 through 30MAR2017; 2 pound Gold Medal All Purpose Flour, UPC 000-16000-10710, used by dates 25MAY2017KC through 03JUN2017KC; 2 pound Gold Medal Self-Rising Flour, UPC 000-16000-11710, used by date 23AUG2016KC; 10 pound Gold Medal All Purpose Flour, UPC 000-16000-10410, used by dates 02JUN2017KC and 03JUN2017KC; 5 pound Gold Medal All Purpose Flour, UPC 000-16000-10610, used by dates 25MAY2017KC, 27MAY2017KC through 31MA Y2017KC , 01JUN2017KC, 03JUN2017KC through 05JUN2017KC through 14JUN2017KC; 5 pound Gold Medal Un- bleached Flour, UPC 000- 16000-19610, used by dates 25MAY2017KC, 27MAY2017KC, 03JUN2017KC and 04JUN2017KC; 10 pound Gold Medal All Purpose Flour-Banded Pack, UPC 000- 16000-10410, used by dates 03JUN2017KC, 04JUN2017KC and 05JUN2017KC; 5 pound Signature Kitchens All Purpose Flour Enriched Bleached, UPC 000-21130- 53001, used by date BB MAY 28 2017; 5 pound Signature Kitchens Unbleached Flour All Purpose Enriched, UPC 000-21130-53022, used by dates BB May 27 2017. Peru goes to polls in tightening race LIMA, Peru (AP) – Peruvians were choosing between two conservative candidates in a tight presidential election on Sunday that has become a referendum on the legacy of imprisoned ex-President Al- berto Fujimori’s iron-handed rule in the 1990s. Recent polls showed former World Bank econo- mist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski having erased the lead held by his better-organized and politically sharper opponent, Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru’s former strongman. A mock voting exercise Saturday by Lima-based Gfk put support for Kuc- zynski at 51 percent com- pared with 49 percent for Fujimori. With a margin for error in the survey of plus or minus 1.6 percentage points, it was still a statistical tie but a far better standing for Kuczynski than a week ago, when he was trailing by more than 4 points. Fu- jimori topped him in the first round of voting by al- most 20 points. A potential swing vote in a close race could be the 885,000 Peruvians eligible to vote abroad – about 3.8 per- cent of the electorate. Many had already cast ballots at embassies and con- sulates worldwide as voting began in Peru. The 77-year-old Kuc- zynski, who supported Keiko Fujimori in the 2011 runoff won by outgoing President Ollanta Humala, has nar- rowed the gap by aban- doning his above-the-fray, grandfatherly appeal and hitting Fujimori hard. “Peru is on the threshold of becoming a narco- state,” he told supporters at his closing campaign rally in Lima. The reference was not just to her father’s well-known ties to corruption, organized crime and death squads, for which he’s serving a 25-year jail sentence, but an attempt to draw attention to a string of scandals that have hob- bled Fujimori in the final stretch, most notably a re- port that one of her big fund- raisers and the secretary gen- eral of her party is the target of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation. Peru is the world’s largest producer of cocaine. Her running mate, Jose Chlimper, is also in hot water for orchestrating the broad- cast of a doctored audio tape in an attempt to clear the name of the party boss. “If Fujimori wins the big question is whether she’ll be able to control her party,” said Eduardo Dargent, a po- litical scientist at Lima’s Catholic University. PPK, as Kuczynski is al- most universally known in Peru, is also benefiting from a last-minute endorsement by the third-place finisher in the first round of voting, leftist congresswoman Ve- ronika Mendoza, the protag- onist of a massive anti-Fu- jimori demonstration this week the likes of which Peru has not seen since the turbu- lent end of Fujimori’s rule 16 years ago. Fujimori, who served as first lady in her father’s ad- ministration after her par- ents’ divorce, has tried to contain her rival’s rise by taking distance from her fa- ther’s crimes, even signing a pledge not to pardon him if elected. “I’m the candidate, not my father,” she has fre- quently repeated. At the same time, she has vowed to bring back the “iron hand” style of gov- ernment for which many still revere the elder Fuji- mori, who is credited with taming Maoist Shining Path rebels as well as the country’s hyperinflation. In- stead of rebels, Keiko Fuji- mori is promising to wield an iron fist against crime, a top voter concern. Among her proposals: build jails in high-altitude prisons in the Andes to punish and isolate dangerous criminals. She is also trying to cast her rival, the son of a Jewish- Polish immigrant who is married to an American and spent decades in business outside Peru, as part of the white elite establishment that has traditionally over- looked the needs of the poor. Regardless of who wins, Keiko Fujimori has already reshaped Peru’s political landscape. In April, her Pop- ular Force party won 73 of 130 seats in the unicameral congress, setting Fujimori up to be the first president since her father in the 1990s to govern with a legislative majority – something her de- tractors cite as a risk to Pe- ru’s already weak system of checks and balances. A potential swing vote in a close race could be the 885,000 Peruvians eligible to vote abroad – about 3.8 percent of the electorate. Electoral workers carry voting boxes to a polling station in Lima, Peru, on Saturday. The South American country is gearing up for a tight runoff between Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, and former World Bank economist Pedro Kuczynski. - PHOTO: APNext >