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EDITORIAL | PAGE 4 ‘PARADISE PAPERS’: PAGING ‘DR. PHIL’ High of 88 Low of 78 Moderate with wave heights of 3 to 5 feet ESTABLISHED 1965 www.caymancompass.com – 75 CENTS – FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 SEVEN MILE BEACH WATERFRONT WALKERS ROAD TOWN CENTRE PLAZA RED BAY Charges dismissed after 3 years and 22 court appearances CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Charges were dismissed Tuesday against a couple who had appeared before court 22 times over three years in rela- tion to a driving offense and re- lated charges of attempts to ob- struct justice. Shawn Abshire Bodden, a ser- geant with the Marine Unit of the Royal Cayman Islands Po- lice Service, was convicted, fined and disqualified from driving in 2015 after being found guilty of driving without insurance. He maintained that he was insured under a policy that covers an of- ficer on police business, but could not produce a document saying so. He had been stopped on his way to the marine base to repair a marine unit vessel in 2013. He and his wife Ruth Ann Bodden were charged in 2014 for attempting to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice in his trial. “I can only apologize on be- half of the system for this great TWO CHARGED IN ANIMAL SMUGGLING CASE Two people, including Jimel McLean, son of East End MLA Arden McLean, have been charged and ap- peared in court Wednesday in con- nection with allegations that they attempted to smuggle an exotic pet, a sugar glider, into the terri- tory on a plane. For more, see page 8. PARENTS SHUT DOWN EAST END PRIMARY MARK MUCKENFUSS mmuckenfuss@pinnaclemedialtd.com Parents at East End Primary have pulled their children from class in protest over a situation that placed an assistant teacher in charge of the Year 5 classroom for the past three weeks. The gate of the school was already closed and locked when parents and their children arrived on site Thursday morning at 8 a.m. Some parents said administrators had been warned of the planned demonstration. About 50 adults and as many children milled about in the street in front of the school. Three weeks ago, the Year 5 teacher (whom the Compass has decided not to name at this point) was pulled from the classroom over a complaint that was referred to Family Protection Services. An assistant teacher has been running the class while officials investigate the complaint. The ed- ucation department has said it is searching for a qualified teacher to take the class. Several parents said they are particularly concerned because a similar situation took place 18 months ago at the school. Students in the affected class were left without a qualified teacher for two months. “This is a critical time,” said Joy Vernon, 41, president of the school’s PTA. “Exams are approaching.” Ms. Vernon, who has a child in the affected classroom, said she and other parents had tried to let the Department of Education Ser- vices know their concerns, but felt there had not been an adequate response. “We wanted to allow our voices to be heard,” she said. “We’re not going to settle for an assistant teacher. It’s not fair.” An hour into the protest, Department of Education Services director Lyneth Mon- teith arrived at the school along with Gloria Bell, the department’s senior school im- provement officer. Camana Bay celebrates a decade of development TAD STONER tstoner@pinnaclemedialtd.com A decade of Camana Bay has wrought major changes in the Cayman Islands, and the pace is unlikely to slow in the next 10 years. Dart Real Estate’s most visible en- terprise, the increasingly sprawling, residential, commercial and recre- ational “new urbanism” community of Camana Bay, celebrates its 10th birthday this year. Groundbreaking occurred in April 2005 and the first business opened there in December 2007. PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 » An aerial image of Camana Bay shows the development under construction in 2007. From left, Stuart Dack of Cayman National Corporation; Dan Scott of EY; then-Governor Stuart Jack; Mark VanDevelde of Dart Enterprises; and Rankine McMillan of London & Amsterdam Trust Company cut the ribbon at 62 Forum Lane, the first office building to open in Camana Bay, in 2007. PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 6 » PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 »2 LOCAL&REGIONAL FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 • CAYMAN COMPASS Cayman’s Most Affordable Cimboco - A Caribbean Café 94-PASTA (947-2782) Located in the Marquee Plaza Brunch & Breakfast till 3pm Saturday, Sunday & Holiday Monday! Donations to the UCCI Performing Arts are appreciated. Visit: ucci.edu.ky/x/Junkanoo 12.9.17 7.00 pm Camana Bay JUNKANOO A CHRISTMAS SHOW Handmade ship joins Pirates Week MARK MUCKENFUSS mmuckenfuss@pinnaclemedialtd.com The crew of the Grosse Ile was desperate. On its way to the Cayman Islands, the 10-day journey the ship had made from Ber- muda to Inagua in the Ba- hamas had been rough, with high seas, daily squalls and a strong headwind as the crew skirted the backside of Hurricane Maria. The crew had been forced to run its diesel engine – also the ship’s source of electricity – almost constantly and the fuel tank was running dry. “We were supposed to stop in Turks and Caicos, but it was completely de- stroyed,” said crew member Giacomo Bruno, 26, of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Hurricanes Irma and Maria had left little standing there. So the ship moved on to Inagua. The crew found things hardly better in Matthew Town. “It was like a ghost town,” Mr. Bruno said. “They were trying to charge us a lot for fuel.” Then the ship was chased out of port, being told it had to make way for an arriving barge. It turned out, to the crew’s relief, that the barge had fuel available. “They still charged us US$6.50 a gallon,” Mr. Bruno said. It was one of the many challenges the Grosse Ile (in English, “Big Island”) faced – bitter cold off Nova Scotia, intense thunderstorms off Haiti that broke the bow- sprit – before cruising into Grand Cayman Oct. 11, two months after leaving Canada and nearly a month before Pirates Week, which was the main purpose of the journey. The ship will be part of Friday’s pirate invasion of George Town. Didier Epars, 62, the cap- tain of the Grosse Ile, is no stranger to piracy. He was prowling the deck of his ship on Wednesday in a black T- shirt with “Sea Shepherd” printed on the back and a skull and crossed weapons over the left breast. The Sea Shepherd belongs to Green- peace, the environmental group that often attempts to block vessels hunting whales and endangered sea life. The Sea Shepherd stopped in to Grand Cayman ear- lier this year. “They’re good pirates,” Mr. Epars said with a smile. “They save the fish.” Mr. Epars saves ships. Well, he saved this one anyway, and it took him 17 years of painstaking work. The Grosse Ile, built by the Canadian military in 1951, is the last schooner produced in Quebec, Mr. Epars said, if not in all of Canada. It was origi- nally used to ferry materials to a weapons station on the island of the same name in the St. Lawrence River. When he found it in 1992, it was being used as a second home for its private owner and was a wreck. Virtually every part of it had to be re- placed, twice. His friends and family thought he was insane to buy the thing. He was a consul- tant on diesel engines for a Canadian university and had no shipbuilding experience. He found someone who did, Paul Mailloux, and the two went to work. “The first difficulty was the big wood,” said Mr. Epars, who emigrated from Switzer- land to Quebec as a young man, in his limited English. “It’s big and very long.” The shortest boards on the hull are 20 feet in length. Nothing like that was avail- able commercially, so he and Mr. Mailloux had to be- come lumberjacks and mill the wood themselves. He es- timates it took 800 trees to complete the project, count- less hours of labor and $1.5 million Canadian dollars. “Everything is made by his own hands,” Mr. Bruno said. “Someone else did the wood carving [on the figure- head], but he designed it. It’s his creation.” When Mr. Epars was di- agnosed with prostate cancer in 2003, he spent four years away from the schooner fighting the disease. Much of the work he had done on the ship deteriorated and had to be redone. It was finally seaworthy in 2013, he said. He sailed in and around Quebec and, last year, did whale watching tours out of Tadoussac. But, Mr. Bruno said there are only three good months for sailing in Canada and the win- ters are harsh. “We were looking for an alternative for the winter,” Mr. Bruno said. “Pirates Week invited us.” Mr. Bruno has a friend who spent time in Grand Cayman when his boat broke down, during which time he got to know Pirates Week di- rector Melanie McField. When she mentioned wanting to add another ship to the event, the connection was made. Mr. Bruno said neither he nor Mr. Epars knows how long the ship might stick around. They have had an offer to sail under a local tourism outfit. Or, he said, they may take to sea next week. That kind of freedom is a bit of vindication against those who doubted Mr. Epars and his grand challenge. “People thought I was a crazy man,” he said with a grin. “Pirates Week is a good place for a crazy man.” Pirates Week road closures The following roads and lane will be closed for the Pi- rates Week festival in George Town this weekend: Friday, Nov. 10 From 3 p.m. until 6 a.m. Saturday: Harbour Drive and South Church Street will be closed between Boilers Road and Fort Street. Shedden Road will be closed between Har- bour Drive and the RBC roundabout. Cardinall Avenue will be closed between Albert Panton Street and Harbour Drive. Saturday, Nov. 11 From 6 a.m. until 1 a.m. Sunday: Harbour Drive, North Church Street and South Church Street will be closed between Boilers Road and Mary Street. Boilers Road will be closed between Walkers Road and South Church Street. Goring Avenue will be closed between Louise Llewellyn Way and South Church Street. Shedden Road will be closed between Mary Street and South Church Street. Edward Street, Cardinall Avenue and Albert Panton Street will be closed. Fort Street will be closed between Edward Street and Harbour Drive. Also, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., South Church Street will be closed between Memorial Avenue and Boilers Road. From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Elgin Avenue will be closed between Hospital Road and Shedden Road. Sunday, Nov. 12 Harbour Drive will be closed from 6:15 a.m. until noon between Fort Street and Shedden Road for the Remembrance Day Parade. All other roads in the area will be open. Monday, Nov. 13 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesday: Harbour Drive, North Church Street and South Church Street will be closed between Boilers Road and Mary Street. Boilers Road will be closed between Walkers Road and South Church Street. Goring Avenue will be closed between Louise Llewellyn Way and South Church Street. Shedden Road will be closed between the Mary Street and South Church Street. Edward Street, Cardinall Avenue and Albert Panton Street will be closed. Fort Street will be closed between Edward Street and Harbour Drive. CORRECTION In a front-page story en- titled “900 arrested for immi- gration offenses,” the dates for those arrests was incor- rectly given, and should have read between July 1, 2016 and Nov. 7, 2017. ROAD CLOSURE: WEST BAY ROAD A section of West Bay Road will be closed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday next week as work on a new under- pass continues. The road closure, between Lawrence Boulevard and the Galleria roundabout, will be in effect while construction workers install the beams for the approved section of the underpass. Residents, employees and customers of businesses op- erating in the road closure zone will have limited access, gaining entry from the Gal- leria roundabout for prop- erties and businesses north of the underpass and from the Lawrence Boulevard en- trance for those south of the underpass. Didier Epars stands near the bow of his ship, Grosse Ile, which will take part in Pirates Week festivities. - PHOTOS: MARK MUCKENFUSS Crew members of the Grosse Ile, from left, Giacomo Bruno, Vincent Epars and, his father, Didier Epars.The islands’ most-trusted news source 3 CAYMAN COMPASS • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 ALAMO DR BIRCH WOOD RD RHYTHM LN ELLA RAY GDNS HALIFAX RD Halifax Road L IN F O R D P IE R S O N H W YThe 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. “Finally, I just took her hand and said, ‘Oprah, look at me, right now. You’d better wake up, girl, and wake up now. It is really happening. You’d better get over it and get in the game, or these good ol’ boys are going to hand you your ass on a platter.’” – Dr. Phil McGraw The above conversation between “Dr. Phil” and Oprah Winfrey took place in 1998 in Amarillo, Texas, where the talk show queen had arrived to defend herself against a $100 million lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen who alleged she had damaged the Texas beef industry by her remarks during a television segment relating to mad cow disease. Ms. Winfrey breezed into Texas cattle country on a Gulfstream jet, with an entourage of staff and two cocker spaniels. The scene soon became a media circus, fueled by celebrities (including John Travolta, Patrick Swayze and Celine Dion) who descended on the small Texas Pan- handle town to offer their support. Ms. Winfrey, acting more like a diva than a defendant, appeared bored and offended that someone of her status should have to endure the complaints of a group of crude cowboys. Dr. Phil McGraw, a psychologist whose firm had been hired to help in jury selection, knew that wealthy Texas cattlemen were nobody to mess with, nor would they be the least impressed or intimidated by a “big city” talk-show host like Ms. Winfrey. Dr. Phil, who did not know Ms. Winfrey, did know she was in for the fight of her life – and that she was not up for it. He took it upon himself to clear up her mispercep- tions and toughen her up for trial. Against significant odds, Ms. Winfrey won the case. Dr. Phil became a regular guest on “Oprah” before moving on to host his own enor- mously popular eponymous daytime television show. — What does this have to do with the release of 13.4 million stolen documents from the Appleby law firm, known collectively as the “Paradise Papers?” Precisely this: As the Cayman Islands financial sector faces a perhaps existential threat from European regulators, left- leaning politicians, and increasingly irresponsible journal- ists, our country’s response has been underwhelming, if not blasé. It resembles Oprah in Amarillo – pre-Dr. Phil. There is one notable exception: prominent attorney Anthony Travers, chairman of Cayman’s stock exchange. Think of Mr. Travers as Cayman’s “Dr. Phil” or, perhaps even more apropos, as “Rocky.” In his earlier days, Mr. Travers was an amateur boxer, when he learned to take a punch and, more importantly, to throw one. Lately, he’s been throwing many of them in the direction of ill-informed interviewers foolish enough to get into the ring with him on the subject of Cayman’s role in offshore finance – a topic most journalists know virtu- ally NOTHING about and, frankly, Mr. Travers knows nearly EVERYTHING about. (He’s written or been consulted on much of the legislation that underpins Cayman’s financial sector). Addressing the matter in the Legislative Assembly, Cayman’s Minister of Financial Services Tara Rivers offered the following assurance: “The reporting on the Paradise Papers does not provide any evidence of wrong- doing. The long-standing position of the Cayman Islands is that the effective implementation of global regulatory standards helps to enhance the socioeconomic contribu- tion of the financial service industry.” At the same time, Mr. Travers was bluntly telling the BBC the Paradise Papers were “fake news” and the jour- nalists who trafficked in the stolen documents “should be in prison.” (Mr. Travers may have won a pugilistic trophy or two, but it’s unlikely he has ever held the title of “Mr. Congeniality.”) Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., expressed a similar view: “With the latest leak of interna- tional financial records comes evidence of an unambig- uous crime that won’t be investigated – the theft of the papers themselves from Appleby, a global law firm based in Bermuda.” It is highly likely that Cayman laws protecting the privacy and confidentiality of lawful financial transac- tions have been violated. We would encourage Attorney General Samuel Bulgin to pursue vigorously all possible prosecutions – not only for the sake of those who have been victimized but also to protect the future of offshore finance in these islands. ‘Paradise Papers’: Paging ‘Dr. Phil’ FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 • CAYMAN COMPASS US must confront China to achieve 4 percent growth So far, the Trump economy is a resounding success. Un- employment is down, wage gains are stronger and stocks are setting new records, but a lot more than tax and regu- latory reform will be needed to deliver the economic growth Americans should ex- pect and deserve. The IMF predicts 2018 will be a banner year for global growth – 3.7 percent – but the U.S. economy is predicted to post 2.3 percent. Tax cuts will help – the one-time boost in household income and con- sumer spending should add half a percentage point to GDP for a year or two – and a 20 percent reduction in busi- ness taxes should perma- nently boost investment and growth to around 2.6 percent. China continues to re- port official growth num- bers better than 6.5 percent and though western analysts raise questions about exag- gerated statistics, even critics concede the Middle Kingdom is accomplishing at least 4 percent growth. That is the figure America must match or indeed beat. China’s Communist Party is touting a better model for progress. As western democ- racies remain mired by di- visive infighting, indecision and slower growth, its state- directed capitalism is taking aim at the industries of the future – technology products, artificial intelligence and electric vehicles. We can no longer dis- miss China’s significantly stronger growth merely to the dividend gained when a formerly closed economy opens to trade and absorbs western technology. China is on an enduring superior growth trajectory – its export industries and investments in urban infrastructure, manufacturing and worker productivity often match or exceed many western na- tions, even if its rural areas still lag for now. Asian nations and the more troubled regions of Europe are taking heed and questioning whether lib- eral democracy, free-market capitalism and open glo- balization will best ac- complish national security and prosperity. For example, the Czech Republic is in the process of forming a new government that would give broad execu- tive powers to its new prime minister – a man with very unfriendly ideas toward the EU and the West generally, and whose goals generally mirror troubling develop- ments in critically strategic NATO ally Turkey. With a population more than four times larger, it is in- evitable that China will have a bigger economy than the United States. Maintaining American technological supe- riority and at least matching Chinese growth will be ab- solutely necessary for en- suring the United States can make democracy attractive around the world. And that it has the military and counter- insurgency assets necessary to deal with challenges from China, Russia, Iran and ter- rorism that will continue after ISIS’ final demise in Syria and Iraq. China’s game plan is me- thodical and well-disciplined – close markets to imports with high tariffs and admin- istrative controls, force for- eign companies to transfer critical technology for the privilege of producing in China to access its domestic market, subsidize exports with never-repay loans from state-owned banks, and use the proceeds from the re- sulting trade surpluses to buy up western companies developing other critical technologies. That is not how trade and investment among WTO members is supposed to work, and the Trump adminis- tration strategy of bargaining with China industry by in- dustry – for example in beef, credit cards and solar panels – is like chasing an infestation of rats with a hammer. Decades of bilateral talks – like those launched by Pres- idents Trump and Xi Jin- ping at Mar-a-Lago in April – have proven nearly worth- less. The trade deficit with China is on track to exceed $330 billion in 2017, up from $309 billion in 2016. Either China commits to opening up its markets to U.S. goods and invest- ments on a fully reciprocal basis and balancing bilat- eral trade over three years, or the United States should unilaterally impose a system of import licenses. Exporters should be granted transfer- able rights to import equal to their sales in the Middle Kingdom, and the United States should limit Chinese investments in sectors of the U.S. economy to mirror re- strictions imposed by Beijing on western investments. After that if China wants to talk more – fine. The boost in the demand for U.S. made goods and ser- vices and investments in U.S.-based production and intellectual property would easily exceed those from the tax cuts and boost growth by 1.5 percentage points – enough to get America growing at 4 percent again. Peter Morici is an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, and a national columnist. © 2017, The Washington Times. PETER MORICI 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”The islands’ most-trusted news source 5 CAYMAN COMPASS • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 186802-Ad-Full-Page-CaymanCompas1 111/8/17 3:21:25 PMThe islands’ most-trusted news source 6 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 • CAYMAN COMPASS Thursday afternoon’s “birthday bash” at the crescent was a festive reminder of how far the billion-dollar commu- nity has come. In 1995, Dart Enterprises founder Ken Dart purchased Seven Mile Beach’s Coral Caymanian Hotel and 236 adjacent acres, the founda- tion of a vision for an intimate, pedestrian-linked community mixing quiet residential apart- ments, select retail and ser- vice outlets, offices and recre- ational facilities. Planning for that vision of a 65-acre project, dubbed “Ca- mana Bay,” stretching from North Sound to Seven Mile Beach, began in 1996. In April 2004, Mr. Dart con- verted the old West Indian Club, adjacent to the Royal Palms, into his personal resi- dence, followed in May 2005 by groundbreaking for the first commercial buildings – on a site comprising rubble and mud. In November 2007, the first office building, 62 Forum Lane, opened with Ernst & Young, Cayman National Bank and financial house London & Amsterdam as anchor tenants. The following month, the Paseo took shape as Books & Books and the cinema were the first businesses to open. Dart Enterprises CEO Mark VanDevelde told one in- terviewer at the time, “the de- mand for Class-A office space” had been a “significant sur- prise” to the developers. More than half of 62 Forum Lane had been leased while the building was still under design, he said, “and that gave us an indica- tion that there was strong de- mand out there” for top-tier of- fice accommodation. The uptake reflected a years-long lack of investment in George Town’s central busi- ness district; Mr. VanDevelde jumped at the opportunity. Quickly, Dart built its head offices – and Ogier’s and CIT- GO’s – at 89 Nexus Way, fol- lowed by 94 Solaris Avenue, headquarters for Mourant Ozannes and Aon. Next was 18 Forum Lane with Pricewa- terhouseCoopers in residence, and today builders are put- ting the finishing touches on its 86,000-square-foot One Nexus Way neighbor. Two more commercial and residential buildings are in de- sign for ”block 7,” as part of the new Dart headquarters sched- uled for a late-2021 opening. Initially, residential con- struction lagged, but as global economies picked up after 2009, demand recovered, re- sulting in 63 furnished apart- ments for lease at The Terraces. Mr. VanDevelde promises re- newed focus on residential de- velopment in the next 20 years, beginning with creation of more than 200 for-sale condomin- iums and town houses on more than 500 acres from North Sound to Seven Mile Beach. A residential tower, 10 North, between seven stories and 10 stories, will rise north of 94 Solaris Ave., with two-bed and three-bed condominiums for sale, while a site dubbed “The Big Box” will combine of- fice and residential facilities to the south. The Big Box will abut a 60,000-square-foot Foster’s su- permarket and a home-goods store, surrounded by smaller retail businesses topped by 60 studio and one-bed apartments, known as Market Street Flats. “The Cube,” near block 7, will offer for-lease apart- ments – studios through two- bedrooms – and the for-lease “Liner” will add as many as 150 residences to the Camana Bay portfolio in the next four years. Long term, Dart is thinking about “Central Island,” in “The Harbour,” for development, and creating another four, small, linked islands with three- story and four-story town- house apartments. The company has spent nearly US$1 billion on Ca- mana Bay’s Town Centre and its 700,000 square feet of of- fice, residential, retail and other commercial space. In the next decade, Dart will spend another US$1.3 billion on developments that will include a new five-star hotel and road infrastructure, already apparent in the rebuilt Esterley Tibbetts Highway – and its new airport connector road – and an underpass near the Galleria shopping center. Ulti- mately, the underpass will help support an ambitious elevated platform reaching to Seven Mile Beach, enabling further Camana Bay expansion. Already, the group has built the Cayman International School and a series of playing fields, including tennis and bas- ketball courts, and the adjacent Arts and Recreation Centre. The community now boasts 130 residents, 40 retail out- lets, 15 restaurants and 45 of- fices, employing more than 1,700 people. Addressing Wednesday’s Town Centre birthday party, Jackie Doak, president of Dart Real Estate, thanked Ken Dart “for his vision and de- sire to invest in a town where life blossoms and businesses thrive – enhancing the quality of life and experiences,” and both Dart Enterprises Man- aging Director Jim Lam- mers and Mr. VanDevelde “for starting and leading us on this journey of developing and nur- turing Camana Bay.” She added, “We are grateful to live in a country where, over our years of develop- ment, we have strong, stable governments which support sustainable economic growth and development. “So today, as Camana Bay turns 10, let’s raise a glass to continuing the Camana Bay journey, a town where life blos- soms and businesses thrive, en- hancing the quality of life for generations to come.” TIMELINE OF CAMANA BAY DEVELOPMENT ■■ 1995: Ken Dart buys the Seven Mile Beach-front Coral Caymanian Hotel and 236 adjacent acres, Ca- mana Bay’s foundation. ■■ 1996: Dart Realty creates a 26-acre nursery, cultivating 600 species of native plants to landscape the Town Centre. ■■ 1996-2005: Planning, archi- tecture and design studies, building applications, en- vironmental assessments and coastal engineering lay the groundwork for Ca- mana Bay development. ■■ 2005: May groundbreaking launches Town Centre develop- ment as construction starts on Cayman International School. ■■ 2006: Cayman Interna- tional School opens. ■■ 2007: The first Town Centre office building, 62 Forum Lane, opens in November, fol- lowed in December by the first retail operations, the cinema and Books & Books. ■■ 2008: A series of public planning meetings start in April, gauging opinion on development priorities. ■■ 2010: Camana Bay wins the first “Governor’s Award” for sustainable, innovative de- sign and construction. ■■ 2016: Cayman’s first building to gain Leader- ship in Energy and Environ- mental Design gold certifica- tion, 18 Forum Lane, opens. ■■ 2017: As part of the Esterley Tibbetts Highway rebuild, Dart opens Cayman’s first under- pass, which will support an overhead Town Centre-West Bay Road platform, enabling Camana Bay expansion. Jet back in action as older plane ‘retires’ JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Cayman Airways’ newest jet, a Boeing 737-800, is back in service nearly two months after mechanical issues forced an emergency landing at Owen Roberts Interna- tional Airport. The airline’s CEO Fabian Whorms said the plane had to be fitted with a new en- gine, while mechanics in Germany investigate and at- tempt to repair the damage to the original. “We had to lease an en- gine. It is not like they are just sitting there waiting,” said Mr. Whorms, explaining the delay between the in- cident on Sept. 14 and the plane returning to opera- tional duty last week. He said the engine had been sent to a shop in Germany for repairs and the airline had leased a replacement from the same operator. He said he had no infor- mation on the cause of the engine damage which led to a Tampa bound flight KX200 being turned around. The aircraft was manu- factured in 2003 and previ- ously operated by Norwe- gian Air Shuttle. Cayman Airways acquired the plane in November through a two- year leasing agreement as a placeholder for two new B737-8 Max airplanes, ex- pected to be delivered in November 2018. Mr. Whorms, speaking at a Legislative Assembly Fi- nance Committee hearing on Cayman Airways’ budget on Wednesday, acknowledged the incident would leave the airline out of pocket. Though the plane is on lease, he said the contract left Cayman Airways with responsi- bility for repairs. Because the airline has only operated the plane for 20 percent of the time since its last engine overhaul, however, he said, they would only be required to pay 20 percent of the repair cost. The national carrier is slowly transitioning its fleet to B737-8 Max airplanes, the latest, most fuel-efficient model from Boeing. Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Whorms, along with board members, manage- ment and staff of Cayman Airways, bid farewell to one of the four Boeing 737-300 aircraft, VP-CKY, in its fleet. The plane’s final flight was flown by Captain Perry Panton and Captain Steven Coe to the Goodyear main- tenance facility in Phoenix, Arizona, where Cayman Air- ways’ lease will terminate and the aircraft will be re- tired from service by its leasing company. Mr. Whorms said in a press release that the 737- 800, which came into ser- vice in December, was the replacement for the retiring plane, part of Cayman Air- ways’ fleet since 2003. “At this point, the 737- 800 introduction program is complete in all respects, and the 737-800 aircraft will remain in the fleet as a bridge aircraft until De- cember 2018 when it will be replaced by the airline’s first, state of the art, Boeing 737-8 Max aircraft,” Mr. Whorms explained. “Over the next few years, the three re- maining 737-300 aircraft in the current fleet will be re- tired and replaced by three 737-8 Max aircraft between 2019 and 2020.” TWO CHARGED IN ANIMAL SMUGGLING CASE JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Two people, including the son of a prominent Cayman Islands politician, have been charged and appeared in court Wednesday in connec- tion with allegations that they attempted to smuggle an exotic pet into the territory. Jimel McLean, son of East End legislator Arden McLean, and Sabrina Wil- liams have been charged with importing a live an- imal without a license. Mr. McLean is also charged with importing a biological product without a license. The pair appeared before Magistrate Valdis Foldats in Summary Court Thursday morning for an administra- tive hearing. The case was adjourned until Nov. 30. The charges stem from an incident in June, when a possum, known as a sugar glider, reportedly got loose on a Cayman Airways jet. Ellen Peguero, supervisor, Airport Customer Care, signs a farewell message to the retiring plane on behalf of the airline’s airport staff. The national carrier is slowly transitioning its fleet to B737-8 Max airplanes, the latest, most fuel-efficient model from Boeing. Attending a birthday celebration for Camana Bay on Wednesday night were, from left, Kerry and McKeeva Bush, Dart Real Estate President Jackie Doak and Governor Helen Kilpatrick. - PHOTO: MAGGIE JACKSON CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Camana Bay celebrates a decade of development7 LOCAL NEWS CAYMAN COMPASS • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Coral relocation for piers to begin next year Chief officer: Pier construction to begin early 2019 JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com The feasibility of relo- cating live coral reefs to make way for new cruise piers in George Town harbor will be put to the test in a trial excava- tion next year. Stran Bodden, chief of- ficer in the Ministry of Tourism, said an applica- tion had been submitted to the Department of En- vironment to begin a “trial relocation” of coral reef in the harbor. The planned port project has proved controversial with dive industry and en- vironment advocates con- cerned about the potential destruction of 15 acres of reef, the loss of the historic Balboa shipwreck and sedi- ment impact on a large sec- tion of adjacent reefs. An environmental im- pact assessment suggested the corals could be moved, but warned the costly pro- cess came with no guar- antee of success. Speaking during a Fi- nance Committee hearing Wednesday, Mr. Bodden confirmed part of the $1.8 million budget for the cruise berthing project in 2018 would go toward the trial relocation. He said, “We put an ap- plication in to make sure the methodology we are proposing actually works before doing large-scale coral relocation …. “What we would like to trial is actually taking up a block of seabed that has coral on it and trans- porting that to a donor site, as opposed to snip- ping coral and moving it. We have to trial that meth- odology to make sure the block doesn’t crumble and that methodology works before we do large-scale coral relocation.” Several members weighed in again on the wisdom of the dock project, but Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell insisted the decision had already been made. Outlining a timeline for the project, Mr. Bodden said coral reloca- tion trials would take place along with the procurement process early next year. He said a contract should be awarded in August 2018, with “pre construction” be- ginning early 2019. He acknowledged the coral relocation could delay the project and would add costs, projecting a total three-to-four-year con- struction timeline. Former Premier and cur- rent Speaker of the House McKeeva Bush gave his support for the project but urged government to “get on with it.” He said other suggested locations had been knocked back and it was time to get the job done. “If someone believes we can’t lose [cruise] business, they are making a big mis- take. The longer we pro- long this, the worse off it is going to be. We also do the region some damage when we prolong this, the way we have over many years now. We have a dock. What do people expect the dock to be? A dive site too? It can’t be,” he said. “We are prolonging be- cause we have bent to ev- erybody’s wishes – now you are going to move coral and plant it back somewhere else?” George Town Central legislator Kenneth Bryan also questioned the coral relocation element of the project, asking if there was any guarantee that it would work. His question went unanswered because of a procedural issue. The original environ- mental impact assessment suggested that corals af- fected by dredging for the project should be moved, but accepted there was no guarantee of success. A later consultants’ anal- ysis put the price tag for moving corals somewhere between $8 and $25 million. Relocating 15 percent of the hard corals in the con- struction zone would cost between $8 million and $10 million, according to the report by consultants W.F. Baird & Associates. That price rises to be- tween $15 million and $18 million if a third of the corals are relocated, and could cost as much as $25 million if 45 percent of the corals are moved. Moving the historic Balboa shipwreck would cost an additional $800,000 to $1.5 million, the con- sultants said. The amount of dredging required has been reduced from original estimates, ac- cording to Tourism Min- ister Kirkconnell, who said government had taken an extra year in the planning phase to ensure the de- sign got the best economic value for the least environ- mental impact. Cruise piers in George Town would mean ship passengers would no longer need to be transported to land by tender boats. Government plans to carry out a coral relocation trial early next year in preparation for construction work. - PHOTO: TANEOS RAMSAY An environmental impact assessment suggested the corals could be moved, but warned the costly process came with no guarantee of success.The islands’ most-trusted news source 8 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 • CAYMAN COMPASS We have been asked to announce the passing of Mr. Clinton Albert Blake of Young World Fashions and Savannah, who passed away on Saturday, October 28, 2017. A Thanksgiving Service will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 2:00p.m. at St. George’s Anglican Church, off Eastern Avenue. Interment follows at the Garden of Re ections Cemetery. We have been asked to announce the passing of Mr. Clinton Albert Blake of Young World Fashions and Savannah, who passed away on Saturday, October 28, 2017. A Thanksgiving Service will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 2:00p.m. at St. George’s Anglican Church, off Eastern Avenue. Interment follows at the Garden of Re ections Cemetery. We have been asked to announce the passing of at St. George’s Anglican Church, off Eastern Avenue. Condolences can be registered at: www.churchillsfuneralhome.com In Lovin g Memory of In Lovin g mory of Our precious Husband, Dad & Grand-dad August 17, 1940 – November 11, 2013 Today marks four sad years since you left us, to be with the Lord. However, when the lord calls our Loved ones’ home, he leaves a Gift of memories in exchange, Because memories are the legacy of God’s love. Forever loved and remembered Loving Wife, Children & Grandchildren The Family Of The Late Condolences can be registered at boddenfuneralservices.com & Bodden Funeral Service Facebook page. Rodney L. Lamb regret to announce his passing on Saturday, 4 November 2017. Mr. Lamb will be repatriated to the U.S.A. The family of the Late Grace Lillian Jackson regrets to announce her passing on Sunday, November 5, 2017. Condolences can be registered at www.boddenfuneralservices.com & Bodden Funeral Service Facebook page Funeral services will be announced at a later date. Divine peacefully passed away surrounded by sisters and children in Quezon City, Philippines. Left to mourn, her husband Ron, her children Eric and Trisha, her stepson Bronson, sisters, brothers, coworkers at Blackbeard's and many, many friends. A memorial service will be held at Smith Cove on Sunday, November 12, at 10:00 AM. All are welcome. Divina (Divine) Hunt nee Laconsay December 18, 1970 - October 7,2017 Ms. Monteith said she shared the concerns of the parents, acknowledging that her department lacks ad- equate resources when it comes to such situations. There are a limited number of qualified teachers who can take over a classroom in such circumstances. “Our pool is very thin,” Ms. Monteith said, adding that the strategy has been to “ask around to find someone who’s willing to come in.” So far, she said, the de- partment has not been suc- cessful in finding a quali- fied candidate. “We aren’t looking for just anybody,” she said. “We’re looking for someone who has the skills to go in there.” Ms. Monteith spent about 30 minutes addressing the parents and answering ques- tions. She offered as a tem- porary solution having Ms. Bell, a former principal at Prospect Primary, take over the class. The parents were not sat- isfied. Some asked Ms. Bell how long it had been since she had been a classroom teacher. She did not an- swer the question directly, but said her work as both a principal and as a school improvement officer put her in the classroom as an ob- server and adviser on a regular basis. “As an educator,” she told the group, “I should be able to step into a classroom [as a teacher] at any time.” Kenia McFarland said, de- spite Ms. Bell’s assurances, she and other parents would keep their children out of the school at least until Tuesday. She said she was uncertain whether that boycott would be extended if the situation is not resolved. “We want a teacher to be placed there, or we want back [the teacher who was re- moved],” Ms. McFarland said. “He’s an excellent teacher. You could say he’s the back- bone of the school.” His class of 20 is not the only one impacted by his ab- sence, Ms. Vernon said. “All 95 students are af- fected,” she said. Ms. Monteith said she could not discuss the de- tails of the complaint or the investigation in- volving the teacher, but said things are proceeding as quickly as possible. As for finding a replace- ment teacher, she said she had few options. The de- partment, she said, will be “just redoubling what we’ve done before.” She denied the sugges- tion by some parents that the East End school was being treated differently. “It is the Cayman Islands education system,” she said. “Our goal is always to act in the best interest of our chil- dren and their education.” George Williams, 41, who has two daughters at the school, was not convinced. “The school is neglected in a way,” Mr. Williams said. “We really can’t get what we need.” He was frustrated that the parents had to resort to mounting a protest be- cause they could not get a re- sponse otherwise. “It shouldn’t have to come to this point,” he said, ad- dressing Ms. Monteith. “Our children are out of school because of the Department of Education. I hold you responsible.” East End MLA Arden McLean was on hand and ac- cepted a petition signed by parents and concerned citi- zens. He said he would de- liver it to the minister of education, Juliana O’Connor- Connolly. In addressing the crowd, he said the failure to find a qualified teacher for a class where the regular teacher had been removed or had quit was not unique to East End Primary. “They do it to other schools,” Mr. McLean said. “They complain of the same thing. The only difference is you are brave enough to stand up and I applaud you for doing that.” He said the only way things would change would be if more parents took similar actions. inconvenience that has hap- pened in your life for the past three years,” Magistrate Angelyn Hernandez said on Tuesday before she dis- missed the charges. The obstruction charge had been set down for trial, with Tuesday as the final date, but defense attorney Amelia Fosuhene said the Crown had reviewed doc- uments sent to them and would be offering no evi- dence because documents pertaining to Mr. Bodden being covered by insurance were correct. Senior Crown counsel Candia James had spoken to Deputy Commis- sioner Kurt Walton about the matter, the attorney said. The magistrate asked if it had taken three years for the authorities to find out what the insurance policy was. Ms. Fosuhene replied that the government department that held the document had eventually provided a copy. “Officer Walton was the first officer to do anything about it,” she said. “So, yes – three years.” Ms. Fosuhene added that some of the police of- ficers she had spoken to had been not only un- helpful but rude: one had insisted there was no such policy; another had put the phone down on her. “The Office of the Di- rector of Public Prosecutions went back to them time and time again at my be- hest,” she said. Ms. Fosuhene explained that Mr. Bodden’s copy of the insurance policy was on his computer at work, but he did not have access to it. He had been suspended from duty in May 2014. She noted that Mr. Bodden will have to go to the Court of Appeal to get his driving conviction quashed. Details of the obstruction charge were that the defen- dants caused information relating to the motor insur- ance policy obtained from a named company, which they knew or believed to be false, to be submitted to the pros- ecutor in a bid to prevent prosecution for the offense of driving without insurance. Crown counsel Kenneth Ferguson confirmed that in light of the new infor- mation, the outcome of the earlier trial and the age of the matter, the Crown would be offering no evi- dence. The magistrate re- plied, “Really because there is no evidence.” She said that the Bod- dens had had the situa- tion hanging over their heads since 2013 and had been coming to court since 2014, “and all this time the police did not know their own policy?” The magistrate said it was shocking that a doc- ument was not known to senior officers: “I cannot begin to express the unsat- isfactory manner in which this has been handled. I have no words. This case is dismissed.” After court adjourned, Ms. Fosuhene said she would write to the Commis- sioner of Police to ask that Mr. Bodden be reinstated. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Parents shut down East End Primary East End Primary parent Joy Vernon, left, voiced her concerns to Department of Education Services director Lyneth Monteith, right, during a protest on Thursday that shut down the school. - PHOTO: MARK MUCKENFUSS Charges dismissed after 3 years and 22 court appearances CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 LOCAL NEWS CAYMAN COMPASS • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Dr. Frank Tran MD, FRCSC Arthroscopic Knee & Shoulder Reconstructive Surgery & Sports Medicine CAYMAN ORTHOPAEDIC GROUP PLEASE CALL 945-8380 FOR APPOINTMENTS will be at #1 SMITH ROAD PLAZA Monday, 13th November, to Friday, 17th November, 2017 The Department of Agriculture wishes to advise the public who are planning to use its abattoir services this Christmas season that during the month of November they should visit the Department’s Reception Desk at the John Bothwell Building in Lower Valley to schedule the appointment(s). NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. • The last day for the delivery of livestock for slaughter will be Thursday, 21 December 2017. • The last day of slaughter will be Friday, 22 December 2017. • The last day to deliver carcasses/meat is Saturday, 23 December 2017 Yvonne’s Back on Island! Call her 943-1313/936-1313 Prive’ Beauty Studio Split verdicts in cocaine conspiracy trial Defendants bailed until sentencing in February CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Three men facing var- ious charges of conspiracy to supply controlled drugs were found guilty of one or more charges after a Grand Court jury deliberated on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. Ian Duncan was found guilty on two charges by unanimous verdicts, guilty on two charges by a verdict of 6-1, and not guilty on two further charges. Wayne Carlos Myles was found guilty on one charge by a unanimous ver- dict and not guilty on a second charge. Ukel Dixon, who faced one charge, was found guilty by a unanimous verdict. Each man had been charged with conspiring with Alexander Adrian Ebanks, who pleaded guilty last year to various drug charges, based on records of phone conversations with Ebanks. When he was ar- rested in 2015, his phones were seized and analyzed; messages were seen between his phones and phones at- tributed to the defendants. The jury of four men and three women had binders of material showing the dates, times and frequently the contents of the messages. For Duncan and Myles, each charge related to a spe- cific date. For Dixon, the one charge related to a period of about a month. The jurors in the case be- fore Justice Charles Quin took about five hours to reach their verdicts. Crown counsel Eleanor Fargin did not object to bail for the men pending sen- tence. She noted that Robert Cialon, who entered guilty pleas before the trial got under way, was scheduled to return for sentencing on Feb. 2, 2018. She suggested the same return date for these three men. Defense attorneys agreed and Justice Quin said he would order social inquiry reports for all three. Lydia Warren leaves legacy of medical advocacy The woman who in- spired a movement to le- galize medicinal cannabis in the Cayman Islands has died. Lydia Warren, 37, passed away Wednesday evening after a battle with lung cancer. She would have been 38 on Nov. 21. Husband Dennie Warren Jr. shared a public message on social media Thursday morning: “At 6:32 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2017 you left us to be with Jesus. We will miss you! Thank you for our two beautiful children! They are well on their way to being as intelligent and sweet as you were. I will continue to foster the love for learning that we want them to have. RIP my love.” The message produced an outpouring of support and hundreds of reactions from Cayman’s community and those touched by Ms. Warren’s life. Her fight against cancer inspired Mr. Warren to ad- vocate for medical cannabis before the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly. The petition proved successful and in October 2016, law- makers unanimously ap- proved cannabis oils and tinctures with a doctor’s prescription. Ms. Warren was active in the community and was honored as a Young Cayma- nian Leadership Awards fi- nalist in 2014. The Warrens have two children; Leah, 9, and Ashton, 4. Lydia Warren Errington Webster’s sentencing put off Trial attorney permitted to withdraw from case CAROL WINKER cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com Errington Webster, con- victed by a jury in June of in- decent assault and gross in- decency, had his sentencing adjourned again when he appeared before Justice Charles Quin on Thursday. The reason was to give Webster time to get a new attorney and provide in- struction after Justice Quin granted leave for trial at- torney Steve McField to withdraw from the case. The matter was set for mention again on Dec. 1. Webster has been in cus- tody since his conviction for offenses involving a young teenaged girl who gave evi- dence of three occasions on which the defendant had as- saulted her; she also pro- vided a cellphone video of him performing a grossly in- decent act in her presence. Crown counsel Darlene Oko said it was in the public interest for sentencing to take place within a reason- able time because of the impact on the victim and witnesses as well as the community that had taken interest in the case. The court was also ad- vised that Webster had ap- plied for legal aid. Mr. McField told the court that after the trial, he had talked with Web- ster and his family about the expenses of the case and the amount of research he would have to do for the sen- tencing hearing. They told him they did not have a lot of funds, but would arrange for monthly payments. He told them he would continue, and then he never heard another word. Not only did they not contact him, but he had in- formation that they had not done so because they were unhappy with the result of the trial, Mr. McField said. Justice Quin cited de- fendant/lawyer confidenti- ality and said he had no ap- petite to enter further into the dispute. “If they can’t re- solve their differences, I’m not going to force them,” he said later. Mr. McField said he was not prepared to do the case for legal aid rates, but it was not the funds – it was the fact that Webster and the people he put in the po- sition to look after his busi- ness had completely walked away from their responsi- bility “because the jury did not give them the result they wanted.” He declared, “If they paid me a million dollars, I would not stay in this case.” Mr. McField said he was seeking to withdraw for eth- ical reasons. His relation- ship with the defendant and his family had com- pletely broken down and he would not defend Web- ster ever again. Justice Quin said the fairest thing was to allow Mr. McField to come off record. Brac road paving continues No plans for asphalt plant to go back to Grand Cayman JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com There are no plans to bring road paving equip- ment back from Cayman Brac in the near future, de- spite concerns from legis- lators that the lack of sim- ilar machinery was driving up the cost of road develop- ment in Grand Cayman. District Administration Minister Moses Kirkcon- nell said the “asphalt plant” would stay on the Brac for at least the next two years to continue paving roads on the island and would then go to Little Cayman. “It is not my intention to send that paving equip- ment to Grand Cayman in the near future. There is still plenty work to be done in Cayman Brac and Little Cayman,” he said. East End legislator Arden McLean had raised con- cerns that the lack of sim- ilar equipment for laying asphalt in Grand Cayman meant that road projects on the island had to be de- layed until private sector contractors were available. He added that this was also driving up costs and ques- tioned how long it would take to complete the works on Cayman Brac. Road resurfacing on the Brac started in 2010. At the time it was said to be the first time the island’s roads had been repaved in 30 years. Concerns were raised in a 2012 Auditor General’s report that the equipment was being used without authorization from the Legislative Assembly, to pave private car parks and driveways. The issue of the paving equipment is a regular theme in the budget fi- nance committee hear- ings each year. Mr. McLean has raised the issue on numerous oc- casions and did so again Wednesday, saying govern- ment was “paying through the nose” to get paving done in Grand Cayman while the plant stayed on the Brac. Juliana O’Connor-Con- nolly, legislator for Cayman Brac East, said the equip- ment was providing much needed roadwork as well as labor for people on the Brac. The reason was to give Webster time to get a new attorney and provide instruction after Justice Quin granted leave for trial attorney Steve McField to withdraw from the case.Next >