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Box 74, KY1-1102 Tel. 949-8699 www.britcay.ky A member of Colonial Group International: insurance, health, pensions, life Call 949-8699 www.britcay.ky cgigrp GOV’T DEVELOPMENT BANK HOLDS $20M IN DELINQUENT LOANS BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com A government-funded development bank held $19.9 million in delinquent loans as of last year, and the amount of those unpaid loans was on the increase, according to a re- port provided to the Legislative Assembly. The Cayman Islands Development Bank re- ported to the Legislative Assembly in its finan- cial statements for June 30, 2015 that its de- linquent loans [more than three months past due] had risen from $18.3 million to nearly $20 million in one year. The delinquent loans made up about 56 percent of the bank’s total loan portfolio. “The high levels of delinquencies are mainly attributed to loans underwritten under outdated policies and the high-risk nature of the loans,” the bank’s annual report for the year noted. Business loan delinquencies and home MINISTER ANSWERS UTILITY REGULATION CONCERNS TAD STONER tstoner@pinnaclemedialtd.com In an eight-page response to Cayman Water Company CEO Rick McTaggart, government has sought to counter calls to withdraw and rewrite proposed legislation creating a single office regulating Cayman’s utility companies. Signed by Minister of Planning, Lands, Ag- riculture, Housing and Infrastructure Kurt Tibbetts, the 3,100-word letter released pub- licly Wednesday purports to answer Mr. Mc- Taggart’s worries that the bill is incomplete, and leaves his company largely at the whim of a nine-member board governing the new Utility Regulation and Competition Office, to be known as URCO. The new bill seeks to unify the host of sep- arate regulators that oversee the telecommuni- cations, electricity, water and fuel industries. As part of the proposed bill, three affiliated laws abolish the Information and Telecom- munications Office, the Electricity Regulatory NASA expert inspires students JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Just days after U.S. Presi- dent Barack Obama targeted a manned mission to Mars by 2030, one of the men responsible for making it happen was in the Cayman Islands to tell young students they could aspire to be part of it. Delivering the keynote ad- dress at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) conference, Dave Lavery, NA- SA’s program executive for solar system exploration, discussed some of the exploratory work already under way on Mars. Youngsters were shown pho- tographs taken just 12 hours earlier by the rover Curiosity, an unmanned exploratory ve- hicle which Mr. Lavery helped build and land on the red planet in a thrilling, nail-biting descent Cabinet approves sending landfill plan out for bids CHARLES DUNCAN cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new plan for the George Town landfill, including a waste-to-energy plant to incinerate waste. The new waste management strategy calls for capping the landfill, creating a new recycling facility on the site and reducing the amount of waste going into the landfill by 95 percent. Premier Alden McLaughlin announced the measure to put the plan out for bids while touring the George Town landfill Tuesday with other officials and members of the media. The proposal has been in the works for years as consultants drafted and redrafted waste management plans for the Cayman Islands. The premier said the landfill plan is “not simply a matter of ‘fix the dump.’” “We had to create a long-term solid waste management plan,” he said. The approved plan looks forward 25 years to use the existing site, plus some land bought around the landfill, to build the new waste-to-energy, recycling and com- posting facilities. Chief Officer for the Ministry of Health Jennifer Ahearn said the outline business case shows that the plan is possible and within government’s budget. “We’re not looking to reinvent the wheel,” she said, noting that the technologies in the landfill plan have been used around PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » Mark Rowlands, with the Department of Environmental Health, points out some of the changes in how waste is dumped at the landfill. - PHOTO: TANEOS RAMSAY PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 9 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » NASA robotics expert Dave Lavery talks to students at UCCI. - PHOTO: JAMES WHITTAKER2 LOCAL NEWS THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS Daily Matinees Every Day $8.00 Seniors, Mon-Fri Before 6pm Cayman Cinema@cbcinema6cbcinema6 640-FILM (640-3456) *Additional charges will apply per 3D ticket requested. 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. MASTERMINDS (PG13) 1:10 | 3:30 | 7:10 | 9:30 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (R) 12:50 | 4:10 | 7:20 | 10:00 THE BIRTH OF A NATION (R) 12:40 | 3:40 | 6:50 | 9:45 STORKS (PG) 12:30 | 3:30 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (PG13) 6:45 | 9:40 MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME (PG13) FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 3D 1:00 | 4:00 2D | 7:00 | 9:50 2D DEEPWATER HORIZON (PG13) 1:15 | 4:10 | 7:15 | 10:05 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th, 8PM BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH - THURSDAY - Lions keep an eye on vision health Each year on World Sight Day, the Lions Club of Grand Cayman, like many Lions Clubs worldwide, makes ded- icated efforts to highlight the importance of eye health. To bring awareness of blindness and vision im- pairment, Lions Club mem- bers have been visiting schools throughout Grand Cayman this week to help carry out vision checks on young students. Globally on World Sight Day, Oct. 13, Lions Clubs will be instrumental in con- ducting vision screenings, eyeglass donations, restor- ative surgeries and eye health education programs. For decades, the Lions Club of Grand Cayman has conducted annual vision screenings at public and pri- vate schools throughout the Cayman Islands. “This is just one way in which the Club is working to provide vision awareness and care to children,” a press re- lease from the Lions Club of Grand Cayman states. “Our program provides the op- portunity for children who might not otherwise have access to vision screenings [or] eyeglasses as it provides for glasses and follow-up care as needed free to chil- dren in need.” ‘Eye Care for All’ The theme of this year’s World Sight Day is “Eye Care For All.” “To show your support on World Sight Day and every day, we urge you to engage in discussions of eye health with persons in great need of eye care and those who seldom receive an eye exam- ination to discuss eye ser- vices,” the Lions Club said in its statement. Helena Cilliers, an oph- thalmic surgeon based at the Lions Eye Clinic, pointed out that according to the World Health Organization, about 285 million people have vi- sual impairment, of which 39 million are blind. “How fortunate you are, because if you are reading this, your sight enables you to discern print and to see probably so much more once you start looking at the world around you,” she said. “You will then notice that some people are struggling with their vision in everyday life, being part of the 4.25 percent having to deal with their visual impairment.” Dr. Cilliers said 80 per- cent of visual impairment is treatable by correcting vision with glasses; having cataract surgery; and by having one’s eyes checked and treated for glaucoma. In Cayman and the Caribbean, where diabetes is prevalent, special attention needs to be given to eye care, as cataracts and glaucoma are more prevalent in dia- betics, she said. “Depending on the du- ration and control of [dia- betes mellitus], diabetic reti- nopathy, if managed actively, can prevent the sight-threat- ening complications associ- ated with this disease,” Dr. Cilliers said. Annual screening for diabetics She said the Lions Eye Clinic aims to establish an annual diabetic retinopathy screening service based on the WHO objective of saving sight. “By following the in- ternational guidelines set by this program, we will be able to significantly reduce visual impairment,” she said. “Annual diabetic reti- nopathy screening for each person diagnosed with dia- betes mellitus will be a long- term project, as this is in the early stages of planning and finding dedicated funding.” For more information on how to obtain assistance for eye care or to donate used eyeglasses, contact the Lions Eye Clinic at 244-2818 or a Lions member at president@lionsclubgcm.ky. Flow upgrading off-island connection CHARLES DUNCAN cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com This weekend, telecoms company Flow plans to install new hardware for a major up- grade to the undersea fiber connection to Jamaica, one of the two “pipes” that allow In- ternet users in Cayman to con- nect with the rest of the world. The cable, connecting Grand Cayman to Cayman Brac and Jamaica, will get an added 100Gbps capacity. To put that in perspective, a home user will have a 10Mbps to 100Mbps connection. The new capacity can handle 1,000 of those high-end 100Mbps home connections or 10,000 of the 10Mbps connections. In a statement, Flow repre- sentatives said, “This increased capability is designed to com- plement our increased Maya-1 cable system capacity.” Maya-1 is the other cable that connects to countries in Central America, Mexico and Florida. The new capacity makes it easier to route Internet users in Cayman through dif- ferent cables. If the bigger cable goes out, as the Maya-1 system has twice this year, more traffic can be sent through to the Jamaica cable. In an interview, Cable & Wireless spokeswoman Julie Hutton said, “Everything has been put in place” to avoid In- ternet slowdowns and out- ages during the work. She said crews will be working over- night so they can make the up- grades when the volume of In- ternet use is lower. She asked that drivers be cautious on Eastern Avenue as crews work in manholes on the road over the weekend. Cable & Wireless, the parent company for Flow, has come under fire from customers and in the Legislative Assembly for slow Internet speeds. In a press release, Cable & Wireless’s Paul Scott said, “C&W Networks is pleased to support the continuing growth and diversity of capacity needs of our wholesale customer base in Grand Cayman. Haiti relief flight scheduled for Sunday CHARLES DUNCAN cduncan@pinnaclemedialtd.com More than $500,000 worth of supplies, collected in Cayman over three days last week, are scheduled to be flown to Haiti Sunday. The supplies were orig- inally scheduled to be air- lifted to Port-au-Prince earlier in the week, but government in Cayman has been negotiating with the Haitian presi- dent’s office to make sure the supplies end up in the right hands. Matthew Leslie, who headed the collection ef- forts, said the supplies will be given to Opera- tion Blessings in Haiti, the same organization that helped with relief efforts in Cayman after Hurricane Ivan. “We are confident that handing it over to a repu- table organization will en- sure that the assistance reaches the people most in need,” Mr. Leslie said. He said the goal was to have the supplies ar- rive Wednesday, but permit requirements in Haiti and negotiations with government have caused the delays. More than 500 people have died in Haiti since Hurricane Matthew hit a week ago. The U.N. has appealed for $120 million in donations to help with the relief effort. The Category 4 storm leveled towns and caused serious damage across the country, especially in the south. Haiti is still recov- ering from the 2010 earth- quake and a subsequent cholera epidemic. CHIROPRACTOR’S SENTENCING POSTPONED CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com The sentencing hearing for Cayman chiropractor Jemal Khan has been post- poned to Oct. 26. It had been set for Oct. 12. Khan, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 to nine counts of indecent assault on female patients, remains in custody. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of insulting behavior, taking photo- graphs of individuals without their consent. The offenses occurred between 2013 and 2016. A court memorandum indicated that the matter was adjourned because of lack of time in the court diary, and because of the schedules of defense at- torney Laura Larner and Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Patrick Moran. Lions Club of Grand Cayman members visit First Baptist school to carry out eye screenings: From left, teacher Maylene Gangway, Dr Joanna Soutter, Lions Carmin Godfrey, Andrew Hulse, Colleen Burke and Adrian Neblett, with student Elijah Bain. CAYMAN CONFIRMS 10TH IMPORTED ZIKA CASE The number of imported cases of the Zika virus has in- creased to 10, while locally transmitted Zika cases re- main at 17, according to the latest Public Health De- partment figures. Since the last update on Sept. 26, five results were re- ceived from the Caribbean Public Health Agency in Trin- idad. Four were negative and one was a positive imported case, health officials noted in a press release issued Wednesday. There are no additional cases of pregnant women testing positive for Zika in the latest statistics. One pregnant woman tested positive last month. The government, health officials and the Mosquito Research and Control Unit are holding public meetings about the virus throughout the Cayman Islands. The next meeting will be at the Bodden Town Civic Centre on Tuesday, Oct. 18. For a list of upcoming meetings, see the Community Calendar on page 10.The islands’ most-trusted news source 3 CAYMAN COMPASS • THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 20%-70% OFF ALL NEW & DEMO INVENTORY & DWELL SALE Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 15-16 9 AM – 6 PM FURNITURE, OUTDOOR, ART, LIGHTING, ACCESSORIES 30% - 70% off ‘less than perfect’ condition items used in model homes and 20% off all new and current fl oor stock 119 Dorcy Drive (behind Airport Foster’s Food Fair in Dwell Warehouse) Tel. 745-4310 119 Dorcy Drive (behind Airport Foster’s Food Fair 119 Dorcy Drive (behind Airport Foster’s Food Fair 119 Dorcy Drive (behind Airport Foster’s Food Fair in Dwell Warehouse) Tel. 745-4310 10,000 sq. ft. Showroom and 25,000 sq. ft. WarehouseThe 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. THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS Uh oh. Just when the Cayman Islands government put a lid on popular outrage over the proposed development of land abutting Smith Cove, a new set of construction plans for property in Barkers could reignite public emotions. Though the specific details vary between the Smith Cove and nascent Barkers controversies, the fundamental issue is the same. At root, both situations involve privately held unde- veloped land that the community values for its pristine condition, that successive governments have targeted for “protection” and “public use,” and that, nevertheless, government has never actually gotten around to pro- tecting, or making public. In the case of Smith Cove, the land in question had been owned by a series of private entities, including until last year, the Dart Group. McKeeva Bush’s United Democratic Party govern- ment had attempted to acquire the property from Dart but failed to finalize the deal. When Alden McLaughlin’s Progressives took control in 2013, the government took that land swap off the bargaining table and never offered to acquire the land from Dart in a stand-alone agreement. Last September, Dart sold the property to private group TFG Cayman Ltd., which with Bronte Development sub- mitted the condo development proposal that caused the public outcry. In response, the Progressives talked TFG and Bronte into selling the land to the government, using money from the Environmental Protection Fund to pay for it. In the case of Barkers, the property has long been owned by Cayland Group Ltd., a private entity which has proposed building a 49-room development with a bar and a pool. That sparked calls from the Department of Envi- ronment for government to forestall the development by purchasing the property, again using monies from the Environmental Protection Fund. Although the fund does contain what appears to be a formidable amount of money — nearly $60 million — that balance will evaporate rapidly if the government repeatedly pursues the strategy of “buying under duress.” Additionally, what happens if the government encoun- ters a private developer who is less charitable than TFG/ Bronte, who refuses to sell their property to the govern- ment and who intends to exercise their lawful right to develop their property as they see fit, regardless of how many people may become upset at the loss of (or loss of public access to) a natural beauty spot? In regard to the Smith Cove situation, we laid the bulk of the responsibility at the doorstep of this Pro- gressives government — because they had chosen not to take advantage of a previously identified opportunity to acquire the land from Dart. In regard to Barkers, the blame can be spread around to several different govern- ments over the past two decades. As we noted in Wednesday’s front page story, officials have touted the idea of a “Barkers National Park” since the 1990s. They even enticed Britain’s Prince Edward into participating in a christening ceremony for the imagined park in 2003, and have put up signs calling the area a national park — even though, of course, it is not. (Rather, the area is owned by various interests, including govern- ment, Dart, Cayland and several other private entities.) While many people use and enjoy the area, Barkers has been consistently plagued with litter, potholes and criminal activity — indications of government disinterest and neglect. Bringing the matter home to this Progressives gov- ernment, lawmakers passed the National Conservation Law in late 2013, stating that haste was required in order to prevent the imminent destruction of Cayman’s trea- sured pristine areas. Then months and years passed, and it was only recently – nearly three years later — that offi- cials finalized all sections of the law, including the legal process by which to protect locations like Barkers. The announcement of the “Barkers National Park” was an empty proclamation. Cayman’s voters should exercise particular caution against such substanceless statements with the advent of the political campaign season. Now is the time when sitting lawmakers (and their challengers) are tempted to unveil grand plans, pro- posals and promises — with the caveat that the fruits of their labors are contingent upon election results, and funding from as-yet-unidentified sources. Remember, that no deal is ever really “done” until the check clears or, put another way, the cash register goes “ka-ching!” Barkers: Our ‘national park’ that isn’t 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 EXECUTIVE EDITOR PATRICK BRENDEL A MEMBER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION “Give light and the people will find their own way” Bracing for the next financial crisis Deutsche Bank’s troubles are just beginning To listen to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the U.S. economy has recov- ered miraculously from the financial crisis, and another jolt of left-wing economics will hoist Americans into a new golden age. Yet, growth remains an anemic 2 percent at best. In Europe, prospects are even worse and down- right menacing. The U.S. Justice Depart- ment has proposed Deutsche Bank pay US$14 billion to settle its role in a mortgage securities scandal that con- tributed to the 2008-09 fi- nancial meltdown, and other European banks still await their medicine. Even a set- tlement one-third that size would require the bank to sell stock to replace lost cap- ital, and it is not well posi- tioned to do so. The most funda- mental problem is that the largest bank in Eu- rope’s largest economy is not run well or very profit- ably. It keeps dodgy books and has wide interconnec- tions that threaten other banks in Europe and around the globe – including in the United States. Virtually all European banks are suffering from slow-growing economies and ultra-low interest rates that make moving bad loans off their books tough and earning profits on new loans even tougher. About 17 percent of loans held by Italian banks are underwater, whereas at the height of the financial crisis the figure for U.S. banks was only 5 percent. The picture is pretty bleak elsewhere on the continent, too. We are told over and over again, Deutsche Bank is no Lehman Brothers – it can’t pull down the global finan- cial system, because the Eu- ropean Central Bank stands ready to lend virtually un- limited amounts of cash against the bank’s assets. However, as was the case with Greek banks during their recent crisis, the Eu- ropean Central Bank likely will require the German government to cosign for those loans – that is, un- derwrite the kind of bailout Chancellor Angela Merkel and her finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, have railed against. More impor- tantly, many of Deutsche Bank’s assets are derivatives and securities that may not count for much in a crisis. In the end, Deutsche Bank may have to resort to a “bail-in,” as recent European bank reforms more generally require – namely forcing bondholders to accept much- depreciated stock to replace their claims and take huge losses in the bargain. As panic spreads among bondholders elsewhere in Europe – and don’t think it can’t – the potential for economic collapse is enor- mous. In Italy, ordinary de- positors have been encour- aged to purchase bonds in the manner that Ameri- cans invest in certificates of deposits. Similar bail-ins there would impose huge losses of savings and pur- chasing power, and a con- tagious recession that could easily undo Europe’s fragile welfare state economy once and for all. At the core of this mess is Europe’s inability to accom- plish meaningful growth and clean up both the books and practices of its chroni- cally shaky banks. Economic leaders on the Continent and in the United States preach, as if to con- vince themselves as much as voters, that getting the right mix of monetary stim- ulus and new government spending could somehow re- store more robust growth and eventually return banks to good health. However, Europe’s exten- sive and America’s growing social safety nets discourage citizens from improving their skills and filling jobs in emerging industries. Along with governments’ blind faith in free trade, those schemes send invest- ment and jobs to Asia. Regarding European bank practices, fraud may be endemic as German bank executives appear intent on exporting their bogus prac- tices. For example, former and sitting Deutsche Bank executives were recently in- dicted by Italian prosecu- tors for helping Banca Monte dei Paschi, the world’s oldest bank, grossly overstate 2008-12 profits. In the United States, new regulations require big banks to write living wills that specify how they would sell off assets in a crisis and to build up capital to help cushion the process. But like Deutsche Bank and U.S. banks in 2008-09, most of their assets and capital would prove unmarketable and nearly worthless should the economy turn south. Mrs. Clinton, quick to ensure Mr. Obama’s legacy, promises even more so- cial programs and bogus bank reforms, and will likely revert to free trade once elected. We are told the great fi- nancial crisis can’t happen again – Deutsche Bank won’t fail and can’t pull down the system. Brace yourselves. Sooner or later, history repeats itself, and the banks will fail again. Peter Morici is a professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. He served as chief economist of the U.S. International Trade Commission from 1993-1995. He tweets @pmorici1. © 2016, Washington Times PETER MORICI At the core of this mess is Europe’s inability to accomplish meaningful growth and clean up both the books and practices of its chronically shaky banks.5 LOCAL NEWS CAYMAN COMPASS • THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 The Committee of Hope in support of Hedge Funds Care Cayman would like to thank all attendees as well as the following sponsors for making our 3rd annual Oktoberfest a huge success! For more information email: committeeofhope@queensgate.com.ky All profits will go to Hedge Funds Care, Cayman, a charity whose sole mission is preventing and treating child abuse THANK YOU Committee of Hope’s 3rd Annual Oktoberfest Gold Sponsor: Media Sponsor: Silver Sponsor: Trial begins for man accused of immigration scam Defendant invokes names of Deputy Governor Franz Manderson, former Premier McKeeva Bush CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Trial began Wednesday for Paul Anthony Hume Ebanks, charged with 27 counts of obtaining prop- erty by deception. The property was a total of $164,700. The deception was that sums of cash were required as payment for a legitimate grant of Cay- manian status or perma- nent residency. Crown counsel Toyin Salako opened the case to the jury of five women and two men. She said it was the prosecution’s case that Ebanks had represented that he was working on be- half of various government officials to recruit persons to whom status or resi- dency would be awarded in exchange for cash pay- ments of $2,000. The period of alleged offending was between July 2012 and December 2014. Ms. Salako emphasized that there was no such scheme and Ebanks was not employed by govern- ment to recruit members of the public for grants of resi- dency or status. She said jurors would hear from various witnesses that Ebanks had told them that (former West Bay MLA) Cline Glidden was godfather to his son or that Deputy Governor Franz Manderson was godfather to his son. No such relationship ex- isted, but the claim helped convince people that he was in a position to facili- tate the grants. First witness The first witness, Siri Russell, told the court that she knew Ebanks from school. She ran into him in 2012 and they exchanged phone numbers. He came to see her and told her he was working with Mr. Glidden and McKeeva Bush and they were looking for people to get status in order to vote in the upcoming elections. She understood that Mr. Bush and Mr. Glidden were politicians, but she did not know them personally. Asked later if Mr. Bush was premier at the time, she said she did not know. She said she believed Ebanks because he would get phone calls and then tell her he had been speaking to Mr. Glidden. When she had questions about the scheme, Ebanks would phone and get answers. Ms. Russell said Ebanks told her that people did not get receipts for their cash because it was not going into the government itself, it was going to Mr. Bush. She said she asked how people could get status just by giving their name and de- tails. He told her that Mr. Bush had granted some sta- tuses some years before and it was basically the same process. Jury questionnaire Before jurors were chosen this week, they were given copies of a question- naire to fill out. Two of the questions were: Were you or any close relative granted Caymanian Residency under the 2003 Government scheme? Do you know of anyone who paid cash for Caymanian Residency? The questionnaire also asked if the potential juror or close family member had a personal friendship or close association with Franz Manderson, Cline Glidden Jr., Charles Glidden or Wil- liam McKeeva Bush or their immediate families. Another question was whether the potential juror was a member of the United Democratic Party or the People’s Progressive Movement or any other po- litical party. STUDENTS TAP INTO PROGRAM ABOUT WATER Cayman Water Company recently launched a program to educate students in sev- eral schools on island about tap water and the desali- nation process. The company’s project en- gineer in business develop- ment, Karlene Singh, has made presentations at four schools in George Town and West Bay. The presentations include subjects such as the historical means of obtaining drinking water in Cayman, a step-by- step description of the desal- ination process, reverse os- mosis and water conservation. To help explain the osmosis process, Ms. Singh enlisted the help of gummy bears, immersing the chewy sweets in water to help prepare the students for a talk on reverse osmosis, the pro- cess used on island to remove salt from seawater. Each student received a goodie bag that included a pack of gummy bears so they could conduct their own os- mosis experiments. Each school also received a poster on the desalination process. Gregory S. McTaggart, vice president of Cayman opera- tions for Consolidated Water, which owns Cayman Water, said, “Water can be a pretty dry subject for kids, but Cayman is quite special in where it gets its drinking water and we thought it was important for kids to know that.” Presentations have been given in Cayman Water’s ser- vice areas for grades five and six at Cayman International School, Sir John A. Cumber Primary School, Grace Chris- tian Academy and Wesleyan Christian Academy. The com- pany plans to expand the pro- gram to include more schools in this school year. Sir John A. Cumber Primary School students and the Water Company’s Karlene Singh, after a presentation on desalination. He came to see her and told her he was working with Mr. Glidden and McKeeva Bush and they were looking for people to get status in order to vote in the upcoming elections.DISTRICT DAYS 6 District Days Bodden Town THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS 50 years ago: Concerns raised over road paving plans In the Oct. 12, 1966 edi- tion of the Caymanian Weekly, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, Bodden Town correspondent Haig Bodden wrote: “A son was born to Mrs. Evy Solomon on Thursday at the hospital, the child weighed 8½ pounds. “The taxpayers of Bodden Town are much per- turbed to hear that a move is under way to resurface the roads starting from West Bay. If this is the case, the money will probably run out at Crewe Road as is customary. “If the rumour has no truth in it, that will cer- tainly be good news as it will show a departure from the hard and fast rules laid down by every administra- tion since the days of Com- missioner Cardinal. “Would it not seem to be more sensible and rea- sonable to start the road construction from Col- liers or Rum Point and work towards Crewe Road? Then all the heavy equip- ment could be kept moving down ahead of the new road instead of tearing up freshly laid tarmac. “As we have already wit- nessed the apathy of the su- pervisors of these jobs once the capital city is taken care of, and as we know that these people can even im- pute personality to their equipment, we are certain that no good will come to us if work starts in the west. “News has been received that Miss Chris Bodden is now happily settled at the University of Toronto. She is taking a course toward a Di- ploma of Education. “Mr. Leon Hull of the Lighthouse Club is now back on the island. “Miss Janice Watler of Bodden Town, Secretary of the Board of Education, left for Jamaica for training in stenotype at the Ja- maica Civil Service Centre. We wish Miss Watler all success in her studies. She expects to be away approx- imately one year.” In the Oct. 19 issue, Mr. Bodden wrote: “I would specially fea- ture Mr. A. James Miller. Born in the depression years of the late twenties, this young man has raised himself by his own ef- forts to a very comfortable level, the level where he cannot only make a living but can also help others with their problems. Miller in his youth had dreams of becoming a chemist, and has made a study of many chemicals. “The chemicals which most interested him are the ones which can be used for the extermination and control of termites and in- sects which destroy the works of man. “In an interview with Mr. Miller, he expounded on the many varieties and uses of the large stock of chemi- cals at his command. Miller who now operates an is- landwide spray business for termites and insects is conversant with the ex- termination business, and will always advise on the treatment of any problem in the field. “Mr. Miller who is a former MLA will prob- ably seek a seat in the next election if he has not been exterminated, as he wittily put it.” Students make candies the old fashioned way JEWEL LEVY jlevy@pinnaclemedialtd.com It was truly a sweet day for students at Bodden Town Pri- mary School recently, thanks to a visit from confection maker Rose Myles. She came to teach the youngsters how to pull peppermint candy. Throughout the morning on Tuesday, Year 6 students joined Ms. Myles in making about 600 peppermints, which were quickly gobbled up by students and teachers alike, just as soon as they were finished. Ms. Myles, who has been making peppermint candies for 28 years, en- joys sharing her know-how with the younger genera- tions about the old ways of making local sweets so that the tradition is kept alive. She passes on skills and tech- niques she learned from her mother Lorna Rementa and her aunt Laline. “I started [making pep- permints] before my mother died, and after she died I just took it over because I wasn’t doing anything at the time,” she said. “But it’s getting to me now, the sugar is hot and just penetrates the body and I don’t sleep good at night,” said Ms. Myles, now 62. “But I like going to the schools to teach the children how to make it, despite the heat, and they enjoy it,” she added. “[Though], the young people said they are afraid of the hot sugar.” At the school, the children tried their hand at pulling the pliable, hot, sticky sugar, slung over a nail fastened to a piece of wood, until it turned white. Once that happened, it was stretched and rolled out on a floured table, then cut into pieces with scissors. During Ms. Myles’s visit, students recorded the candy process along with the recipe in their heritage workbooks, some saying they were ex- cited to get home to try making peppermints with their families. Rose Myles’s peppermint recipe ingredients: ■■ 8 oz water ■■ 5 lbs sugar ■■ A few drops of fresh lime juice ■■ 3 drops of peppermint oil. Candies are either con- sumed straight away, or bagged for sale. Students watch Rose Myles pull the hot sugar slung on a nail. Ms. Myles cuts the candies into bite-sized pieces as students stretch the hot sugar. Students gobble up the sweet rewards of their labor. – PHOTOS: JEWEL LEVYDISTRICT DAYS 7 District Days Bodden Town CAYMAN COMPASS • THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 GOING ORGANIC: A FAMILY AFFAIR A passion for farming bears fruit JEWEL LEVY jlevy@pinnaclemedialtd.com When farming is in your blood, it’s hard to keep your hands out of the dirt. That is the case for Bodden Towner George Bodden, who cannot help going back to the land. “For me, it takes a whole lot of patience and a touch of insanity, but I love it,” said Mr. Bodden, who thinks farming is one of those things you have to love and can’t hurry, despite it being hot and hard work. Mr. Bodden got into farming when he built his first home in Prospect and wanted plants. Instead of buying them, he planted his own. He loved the experience so much, he opened a nursery. He said business was booming, but then everyone seemed to be getting into the nursery busi- ness and the company took a big fall. But that did not stop Mr. Bodden – he just uprooted, moved to Anton Bodden Drive in Bodden Town, and started all over again. “Once you have the bug, it’s hard to give it up,” he said. Since that time, his backyard garden has proved an irre- sistible draw. “There were times I wanted to give up but then I found myself placing one little seed in the ground, and then another, and it just takes off from there.” At the back of the family home are rows of different types of peppers, as well as fruit trees such as June plum, avocado and mango. Aloe, scallion, big leaf thyme, lemongrass and other fresh herbs and vegetables can also be found. Pumpkin vines snake among the many pots of flowering trees, and in the shade house are a number of seedlings in pots, waiting to be transferred to the ground. Mr. Bodden also raises birds including chickens, pea- cocks and white doves. “Farming comes with its challenges. It’s especially hard when you have your stuff stolen, having to compete with foreign imports, and de- struction from animals and insects, but the biggest pain of all is the chickens and the iguanas,” Mr. Bodden said. These days, he is ex- panding his business in- terests, working with his wife Jennifer. The husband-and-wife team own Life Managed Group, which consists of the Backyard Farmer, Sea- sonal Delights, Backyard Gar- deners and The Hair Studio Salon and Spa. “What we don’t sell from the garden, the wife uses in all her natural blends of pepper sauces, body scrubs and lotions, food dishes and cakes,” he said. Mr. Bodden tells his wife he will grow and harvest the plants, but “the magic that happens inside the home is her baby.” “Once you have the bug, it’s hard to give it up.” BACKYARD FARMER GEORGE BODDEN George Bodden repots a pepper tree in his garden. - PHOTOS: JEWEL LEVY Mr. Bodden with some of his plants in the shade house. Organic creations feature local ingredients JEWEL LEVY jlevy@pinnaclemedialtd.com Jennifer Bodden and her daughter Ariana love to cook. Their passion for cooking goes beyond food – the mother-daughter team is creating delightful scents and foods out of their kitchen on Anton Bodden Drive in Bodden Town. The products are made from natural organic ma- terials sourced from their garden, tended by backyard farmer George Bodden, Jenni- fer’s husband. The Boddens run the Backyard Farmer Seasonal Delights brand, which uses plants and other organic ingredients to produce a range of products. In the kitchen, a line of locally handcrafted soaps, scrubs and spa products made from all-natural and local ingredients line the counter. Skin-care bars made from homemade coconut oil and lemongrass, coffee soaps, soap “bombs” that fizz when placed in warm water, and salt and sugar scrubs are all on display, as are pepper jellies, sauces and relishes, carrot cakes, jams and mango jam ice cream. At the crock pot, Mrs. Bodden slowly stirs in fra- grances, coconut oil and other organic products which will be poured into waiting molds to make soaps. “We try to stay organic as much as possible,” said Mrs. Bodden as she flipped the lid on some locally sourced honey. “The bees made a hive in the root of a tree we had cut down at the back of the house. When the tree was moved, it was full of honey and honeycomb,” she said. All this started, she said, out of her passion for food and putting flavors together, and to find a cure for her daughter’s allergies. Attending a Florida fes- tival, they found a supplier of natural soaps which helped Ariana with her allergies. But when they returned to Cayman, they could not find a supplier on island, so they decided to make their own products. “Every one of us has de- veloped allergies over the years, and if we can go back to [nature]. it’s better for us,” she said. Mrs. Bodden said most of her friends are using her products and she now has a thriving new business. “We dabbled a bit here and there but never thought of doing it full-time. This year has been a year of experi- menting,” she added. While Mrs. Bodden con- centrates on her soaps and other items, Ariana creates her own products, including a colorful soap bomb that fizzes out in a rainbow of colors, which Mrs. Bodden says is a hit with the kids, and a variety of soaps fea- turing local scents. Creative packaging is part of the products’ appeal.Jennifer Bodden with her line of homemade organic products. Fresh-laid eggs are just one perk of being a backyard farmer. Along with chickens, Mr. Bodden keeps peacocks and doves.The islands’ most-trusted news source 8 THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2016 • CAYMAN COMPASS the world as part of modern solid waste plans. The centerpiece of the plan is a waste-to-energy plant that will burn waste sent to the landfill to create energy. The plant will reduce the volume of trash to 3 per- cent of its original size and the ash will go in a 4-acre landfill pit on the site, ac- cording to officials. Jim Shubert, senior project manager for the waste man- agement plan, said the new recycling facility will help create jobs in George Town. He said several pieces of heavy equipment for sorting and baling recyclable mate- rials should be at the landfill in the coming months, and the Department of Environmental Health will hire a private con- tractor to run the system. The new plan, Mr. Schubert said, “processes waste instead of landfilling.” He said the new recycling systems and waste-to-energy plant will create jobs because the landfill will need more people to run the equipment. The funding for the re- cycling equipment is in this year’s budget and the equipment has already been ordered. Mark Rowlands, assistant director for Department of Environmental Health, took the media, politicians and others on the tour through the landfill, showing off im- provements in traffic flow, facilities for workers and people dropping off waste, and described the ideas to improve the dump in the new management plan. He said any new mate- rial going into the landfill is being dumped only in one small area at a time, allowing landfill workers to compact it and cover it easily. He ex- plained that the waste was being dumped in 10-foot layers and covered regularly. Premier McLaughlin said government has already ap- proved the purchase of 112 acres of land around the dump, and probably needs to find another 20 acres. The additional land will help keep the landfill from getting to capacity before the waste-to-energy plant is in operation and will pro- vide space for some of the new equipment. Consultants with Amec Foster Wheeler estimate it will be five to six years before the landfill reaches capacity. If the tender process stays on schedule, a contractor could be hired by this time next year. The target to have the waste-to-energy facility and everything else online is in 2019 or 2020. mortgages granted in past years by the bank were in- creasing, according to the re- port. Also, the bank noted that student loan-holders were struggling to make payments. “The student portfolio has also suffered as jobs are not readily available for re- turning students and guaran- tors themselves are facing fi- nancial hardships,” the annual report stated. For the past year, the bank reported that it had approved loans totaling less than $1 mil- lion, the vast majority of which went for 33 separate student loans. Other loans were paid out largely for legal fees and property valuations associated with home foreclosures. Loans for home mortgages and business ventures were put on hold in 2015. A government consultant’s report in 2014 urged govern- ment to consider three op- tions with regard to the op- erations of the development bank. The first option was that it could be sold to the private sector; the second, that govern- ment could recapitalize it; and, third, that it could be shut- tered permanently. The Progressives-led gov- ernment decided later in the year to inject more resources into the loss-making loan op- eration and refinance some $30 million in debt that it held. “There is no long-term ben- efit to [the development bank] continuing to operate in this existing state – which is ef- fectively a run-off of the his- torical loan book with a very small amount of new lending,” the Ernst & Young consultant’s review opined. In last year’s financial statements, the bank said de- pending on continued gov- ernment funding could lead to losses if another eco- nomic downturn occurs in the local economy. “It can be questioned whether or not depending on capital injections will make the bank survive as a viable institution,” the 2015 report stated. “A prospective instru- ment towards self-sustain- ability is becoming a deposi- tory institution.” The bank also posted about $670,000 in operating losses for the financial year ended June 30, 2015, although offi- cials said they hoped to put that figure back in the black within the next three years. About $4 million was in- jected by the bank board into two new loan programs during the year. One program aimed to help civil servants refinance higher-interest debt at more favorable rates. The second effort sought to pro- vide “bridge funding” for local businesses that had shown a record of profitability and which had been in operation for at least two years. “These two programs are expected to generate an addi- tional $400,000 in interest in- come once fully availed,” the bank estimated. Bank law amendments Proposed changes to the Development Bank Law were made public Wednesday seeking to ensure that ap- pointed bank board mem- bers have certain finan- cial expertise and that both board members and politi- cians stay away from loan decisions. The development bank bill states that five of the nine board members under the new law would have to have relevant ex- perience in accounting, banking, finance, economics and industry. In addition, the bill seeks to prohibit members of the Legislative Assembly, bank board members or se- nior bank officials from acting as a “personal guar- antor” in support of a loan from the bank. Cabinet approves sending landfill plan out for bids CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Cabinet approved the business case for the new solid waste management plan, which aims to reduce waste going into the dump through composting, recycling and an incinerator to convert waste to energy. - PHOTO: TANEOS RAMSAY Gov’t development bank holds $20M in delinquent loans CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ten inmates return to work in the community BRENT FULLER bfuller@pinnaclemedialtd.com Of the 20 Cayman Islands inmates who have completed the work placement scheme with the prisons service, 10 have gone on to work in the community, Premier Alden McLaughlin said Wednesday. Mr. McLaughlin said 20 inmates began the program during their sentence at Her Majesty’s Prison, Northward. Seventeen completed the course; three did not finish it. The work placement scheme, developed about two years ago by the prisons ser- vice, evaluates inmates, ini- tially placing those who qualify in unpaid work after their release on parole. That work can translate into paid employment if the former in- mate successfully completes the first phase. “To date, the vast ma- jority of paid occupations have been offered by the pri- vate sector, with the excep- tion of the fire service, which has offered some [jobs],” Mr. McLaughlin said. Mr. McLaughlin was re- sponding to a parliamentary question by George Town MLA Winston Connolly who asked what the prisons ser- vice was doing to reduce the territory’s re-offending rate. Mr. Connolly said he was concerned about reports he had received indicating the prisons service had “closed down” its vocational training program for inmates for the last year. The premier said the pro- gram had not closed down, but was operating “sporadi- cally” over the past few years due to lack of staff. “They’re still short of staff for the prison service gener- ally, and the main focus has to be the safety and security,” Mr. McLaughlin said. The prisons service is still struggling with overpopulation. On Wednesday, Mr. McLaughlin said the popu- lation at Northward – the main adult male prison – was 214, or nine above the stated capacity. The premier said the prison was averaging some 200 prisoners housed there over the past two years. Mr. McLaughlin said re-offending remains a problem. While there is an “ongoing debate” over ex- actly what Cayman’s “recid- ivism rate” might be, due to how that term is defined, Mr. McLaughlin said the prison recorded 16 percent of of- fenders returning within the past three years. In addition to the vo- cational and work place- ment programs under way at the prisons service, Mr. McLaughlin said the gov- ernment’s Department of Community Rehabilita- tion has been given an ad- ditional $500,000 in this year’s budget to hire four parole officers to assist in supervision of inmates re- leased on license. The probation officers provided services to 78 in- dividuals per month, the premier said. “Stable employment is a key element to reduce re-of- fending; however, it is but one aspect [of government’s social programs],” he said. 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Putting a man on Mars within the next 20 years is definitely possible, according to Mr. Lavery, who is respon- sible for the management of the design and develop- ment of the next generation of Mars exploration space- craft. He said the barriers to meeting President Obama’s target would likely be finan- cial rather than practical. “At this point, we have good studies on a lot of the technology issues that need to be solved and we have a good idea on how we want to solve them. It really does come down to putting suffi- cient funding in place.” He believes there will be no new space race, however. “I firmly believe the first manned mission to Mars will be a huge international mission. There will be sev- eral countries involved. This is going to be about coop- eration, not competition,” he told the Compass. In his speech to students, Mr. Lavery described how his team helped create the Mars Exploration Rover vehicles and land them on the planet. The Curiosity Rover, which landed on Mars in 2012, is currently gath- ering temperature, atmo- spheric and radiation data, as well as rock samples on the planet. Its research has already established the ex- istence of ancient streams, suggesting the planet may have once been habitable and setting the stage for fu- ture missions to search for signs of past life on Mars. Putting the vehicle, the size of a Mini Cooper and packing some of the most sophisticated tech- nology ever created, on Mars was not without chal- lenges. Among them was the job of slowing the ve- hicle down for a soft landing after a 1,000 mile per hour journey from the edge of Mars’s atmosphere. Rocket thrusters, a sky crane and parachute so large it was impossible to test on Earth, were all part of the solution. Mr. Lavery said it was a nerve-wracking few mo- ments as the team waited for confirmation that the vehicle had landed successfully. “We knew if we got our math right, it would work. If it didn’t, we slammed into the planet at 1,000 miles per hour and put a $2.5 billion crater on Mars.” Since then, the vehicle has been slowly roaming the surface of Mars. Because of the enormous distance be- tween the vehicle and its operators in the U.S., there is a 25-minute communica- tion time lag, meaning the rover requires enough artifi- cial intelligence to navigate and troubleshoot on its own. NASA’s experts get just two 10-minute windows each day to give instructions to the vehicle, Mr. Lavery said. Tiyen Miller, head of STEM at Clifton Hunter High School, said it was thrilling for his students to hear about such cutting-edge use of technology from experts in the field. He said he would be bringing 100 students to the conference over the next few days. “This is an opportunity for students to see where they can get to with sci- ence and for them to get inspired, which is not al- ways possible on a small is- land,” he said. Roy Bodden, president of UCCI, said technology and robotics would provide the careers of the future. “The main focus of this event,” he said, “is to inspire young minds. We want to get them interested and in- volved in STEM, which is going to change the way we live and work in the future.” Authority and the Petroleum Inspectorate. Among Mr. McTaggart’s concerns – outlined in a Sept. 30 letter to Mr. Tib- betts’s ministry – was that no similar legislation has been brought to address water-sector laws or ad- dress the conflict of interest that has made the Water Au- thority-Cayman both the regulator and competitor of Cayman Water. Acknowledging Mr. Mc- Taggart’s concerns, Mr. Tib- betts said he was “mindful of the existing licensing ar- rangements” for Cayman Water, saying the lack of ac- companying legislation was “not an oversight,” and prom- ising that a “Water Supply and Waste Water Services Regulation Bill” would be in- troduced “simultaneously with the enactment of the relevant water-sector laws.” He said the four bills would be ready in the new year. Mr. Tibbetts did not ac- count for the delay, however, saying only that “a number of unexpected circumstances” had prevented the introduc- tion of legislation specific to the water industry. Mr. Tibbetts also acknowl- edged the ministry’s failure to consult with Cayman Water while drafting the 82- page URCO bill, but said “the ministry is using the 21- day period [statutorily pro- vided for consultation] dili- gently, and has considered and responded to all in- puts received, of which there have been a few.” The law allows interested parties three weeks to com- ment on a bill after publica- tion in the weekly Govern- ment Gazette. Mr. Tibbetts did not elaborate on how “in- puts received” might affect the legislation. Responding to Mr. Mc- Taggart’s observation that the URCO board did not in- clude an “executive director of water production and supply,” Mr. Tibbetts said that a single “Executive Di- rector for Energy and Utili- ties” would be adequate. “Competent and expert staff support will be needed in all sectors, which will be an organizational matter for the Board of the Of- fice,” he added. In his four-page letter to Mr. Tibbetts, Mr. McTag- gart had said that the legis- lation appeared to attempt a merger of complex regulatory regimes for each utility into a “one size fits all” scheme, de- spite, for example, the fuel sector’s competitive – and unregulated – pricing as op- posed to government’s close control over water and elec- tricity rates. While Mr. Tibbetts ac- knowledged the validity of the observation, he said the four “sector-specific bills” would “address the peculiar sector-specific issues and du- ties/functions of the office in the respective sectors.” Mr. Tibbetts promised to review the section on URCO control of mergers after Mr. McTaggart pointed out the potential impediments to open-market share pricing and sales, saying the ques- tion went “to the core of the concern for the preservation of competition.” The section allowed URCO to “reflect” on the impact “any such change may have on a competitive market and to make any in- terventions deemed appro- priate to mitigate any nega- tive impacts.” Mr. McTaggart pointed out the contradiction that URCO had power to halt any initiative it deemed “abuse of dominant position,” but gave, for example, monopoly provider Caribbean Utili- ties Company “the right to protect their legitimate business interests.” He could see “no reason- able justification” why all li- censees should not have equal treatment. Mr. Tibbetts admitted that the section was “not a particularly elegant treat- ment of the particular issue,” but offered no solu- tions, saying only that any other approach “would be a material change to agree- ments between the CUC and the government.” Finally, according to the proposed URCO law, the office allows appeals of any decisions “in its dis- cretion,” including simple requests by “a licensee to be heard.” The bill also would reduce from 28 days to 21 days the period for filing an appeal; it does not allow presentation of addi- tional information which might change an URCO de- cision, nor does it specify grounds for appeals or the powers of the court to inter- vene, leaving only, Mr. Mc- Taggart feared, a formal ju- dicial review. Mr. Tibbetts said the min- istry would seek amend- ments to the new law, in- creasing the appeals period to 28 days; that the level of fines was consistent with re- cent amendments to the In- formation and Communica- tions Technology Authority Law; that a formal URCO decision had to be preceded by a draft of that decision to allow affected companies to comment, providing a “basis for the office to reconsider its position prior to issuing a final decision.” “The ministry is of the view that this procedure af- fords affected parties suffi- cient opportunity to proffer arguments for ‘reconsid- eration,’” Mr. Tibbetts said, “and that the logical next step would therefore be ju- dicial review.” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 NASA expert inspires students Minister answers utility regulation concerns CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Mars Curiosity Rover explores the ‘Red Planet.’Next >