ESTABLISHED 1965 www.caymancompass.com – 50 CENTS – TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 High of 89 Low of 78 Slight with wave heights of 1 to 3 feet. WORLD | PAGE 8 BRITISH AIRWAYS FACES $229 MILLION FINE OVER DATA BREACH SPORTS | PAGE 13 CAYMAN TAKES PLATE TITLE IN RUGBY SEVENS NiCE workers hit the streets National Community Enhancement project workers paint kerbs at the junction of Shedden Road and North Sound Road in George Town on the first day of the NiCE summer project. Hundreds of workers, decked out in bright yellow vests, fanned out across Grand Cayman on Monday, painting roadside kerbs, tidying up cemeteries and cleaning beaches as the two-week programme began. – PHOTO: TANEOS RAMSAY Proposals sought for revamp of CINICO Approval of new CEO pending KAYLA YOUNG kyoung@pinnaclemedialtd.com The Cayman Islands govern- ment has issued a request for business case proposals to re- form its health insurance pro- vider, CINICO. One of the options on the table would be to make the Cayman Islands National In- surance Company the sole pro- vider for all Cayman Islands res- idents. Currently, membership is limited to categories including civil servants, civil service pen- sioners, seamen and veterans, staff and dependents of certain statutory authorities and gov- ernment companies, and low-in- come residents, among others. CINICO has long been a fi- nancial predicament for gov- ernment, as it grapples with substantial healthcare liability estimates in coming years. Healthcare costs represent 17% or $114.2 million of the core government budget for fiscal year 2019, according to the re- quest for proposals. While that percentage is down from previous years – such costs represented 19.3% of the 2015-2016 budget – government must still contend with billion- dollar healthcare liability fore- casts over the next two decades. The current request for pro- posals, due by noon on 30 Aug., TURTLE-WATCH PROJECT GETS GO-AHEAD Camera to be installed this week JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com A campaign to put one of Cayman’s most popular turtle nesting beaches under round- the-clock surveillance has hit its fund- raising target. Project Turtle Beach, led by Caymanian Mi- chael Ridley, raised $15,500 to lease a high- tech camera to be used at a key nesting beach at Sand Hole Road in Boatswains Bay for the duration of turtle nesting season. 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According to a police press release, the motor- bike left the scene, while the police car, a Chevy Aveo, sustained damage to its right rear side. The collision occurred around 5pm on Friday at the intersection of Man- grove Avenue and Orange Drive in Prospect. The motorcycle rider was later located and in- terviewed. Police said the motorcycle was determined to be properly licensed and insured. Not guilty verdicts rendered in child rape case SPENCER FORDIN sfordin@pinnaclemedialtd.com The case of a George Town man accused of raping his stepsister multiple times when she was aged between 5 and 15 ended in not guilty verdicts on Monday after- noon when the complainant was not able to continue her testimony. The Crown counsel elected not to further pursue the case. The Grand Court judge- alone trial before Justice Roger Chapple took more than a week to progress. The complainant, now 20 years old, entered her tes- timony in the form of four police interviews. She was cross-examined over the course of several days. The case was delayed for a week for procedural issues, and it continued Monday morning. The com- plainant was shaken emo- tionally and not able to con- tinue her testimony, resulting in a not guilty verdict on all counts. The assaults allegedly began in 2004 or 2005 and carried through all the way until 2015, but the com- plainant gave differing ac- counts of when it ended in her testimony. There was no physical evidence involved in the case, which hinged exclu- sively on the testimony of the complainant. The complainant alleged that the first time she told somebody about the assaults was in January 2014 when she spoke to a social worker, but she later admitted under cross-examination that she did not report sexual activity at that time. There was a gap of 2.5 years between the first disclosure of the sexual as- saults and her police testi- mony, which also contained several inconsistencies. The complainant admitted in cross-examination that there were errors in her po- lice testimony, and she indi- cated that the inconsistencies happened because she was under pressure. The complainant, who was born in Honduras, did not speak English when she first came to Cayman. She al- leged that the defendant had threatened her life in English but could not explain how she had understood him. The complainant’s mother was flown to Cayman from Honduras to testify in the case. She said that the com- plainant had also previ- ously accused her father of sexual assault. The complainant’s mother said that she believed her daughter had not told the truth about the sexual as- sault allegations against her father. “I think [the complainant] lied. Otherwise they would not have granted him cus- tody,” she said through an in- terpreter. “I think it was with regard to whether her father had touched her or not.” CAR CRASHES INTO AIRPORT BUILDING Police arrested a 31-year-old man for DUI on Friday night after a grey Porsche SUV crashed into a building at the airport. According to a po- lice, shortly after 10pm on Friday, officers responded to a report of a single ve- hicle collision on Owen Roberts Drive in the vi- cinity of the Owen Roberts International Airport. Po- lice said the building was damaged in the collision. The driver was taken to the Cayman Islands Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. When police arrived on the scene, they noted that the driver appeared intoxi- cated and took a roadside breath test, which showed a reading of 0.13%. The legal limit is 0.10%. They also found that the driver was using the ve- hicle without the owner’s permission. The driver, from North Side, was arrested on sus- picion of DUI, careless driving, unlawful use of vehicle, driving without being qualified and driving without insurance. He is now on police bail. The case was heard before Justice Roger Chapple in the Grand Court. Potential cyclone developing off southern US An unusual storm system that is expected to develop off the coast of the southern United States will have little or no impact on the Cayman Islands, meteorologist Allen Ebanks said on Monday. A low trough of pressure in mid-Georgia is expected to slide south into the Gulf of Mexico and develop into a low pressure system. On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- ministration said the system had an 80% chance of devel- oping into a cyclone, partly due to high ocean surface temperatures. The 87-de- gree surface temperature is three to four degrees warmer than normal. If the depression’s winds reach 39 mph, it would be- come Tropical Storm Barry, and NOAA stated that it may bring heavy rainfall along portions of the northern and eastern US Gulf Coast later this week. But Ebanks said any im- pact on Cayman is unlikely. “Once it gets up in the gulf there,” he said, “it’s very, very rarely that it comes back down toward us.” If anything, he said, the islands may feel a change in the wind, with an increased south, southeasterly flow. NRA to begin Shamrock Road paving work The National Roads Authority will be carrying out upgrades to the eastbound lane of Shamrock Road later this week and early next week. The work is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, 11-12 July, and again on Monday and Tuesday, 15-16 July, from 7am to 4pm daily. The NRA is advising drivers to keep watch for traffic diversions and to drive with caution to ensure their safety and that of the work crews. This Porsche SUV smashed into an airport building on Friday night.The islands’ most-trusted news source 3 CAYMAN COMPASS • TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE DONORS KAREN AND MARTIN BURES DAVID EBANKS R D EBANK TURTLE BEACHThe islands’ most-trusted news source 4 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. TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 • CAYMAN COMPASS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY: Caymanian Compass Limited 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 PUBLISHER KATHLEEN CAPETTA EXECUTIVE EDITOR PATRICK BRENDEL A MEMBER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION “Give light and the people will find their own way” Even in money, competition is good It’s easy to project the flaws of Facebook onto Libra, the so- cial media giant’s cryptocur- rency project, slated to debut in 2020. What would become of financial privacy in the hands of a company that has done so poorly as a personal data steward? It’s a valid concern, and there are others. But none are so strong that we should reject the opportunities for choice and empowerment that come with new forms of money and finan- cial services. Criticism should test and shape the offering, but Libra should not be slowed or stopped. Most Americans have prob- ably never thought of money as a consumer product that could be subject to competition. But it can be, and it will. What do people look for in money? Well, it has to have reliable value. It has to be widely accepted. It has to be easy and fairly inex- pensive to transfer. Easy to se- cure. It’s nice if it can be trans- ferred privately. It’s also nice if it’s hard to steal or seize. Anything can be money. For much of humanity’s early his- tory, basic commodities such as salt, cattle, cowrie shells and precious metals served as essential lubricants of trade. Today’s bills improved on four-legged beasts and in- gots of metal. Originally redeemable for ‘real’ valuables, paper notes came to be treated as valuable in and of themselves. Growth in the extent of commerce, though, meant that counterfeiters were hard to discover and punish. Governments stepped in be- cause they could assure notes across wide areas. Times and technologies change. Most money move- ments have gone digital. And with the advent of blockchain technology, the anti-counter- feiting function is an auto- mated part of the software that maintains and transfers cryptocurrencies directly on- line. Money does not have to be government-provided. So how does Libra stack up as a consumer product? It will be backed by a basket of major government currencies, so its value and inflation-resist- ance should be on par with those currencies. That actually means continual losses of a few percent per year. It’s a standard practice of governments to de- base their currencies’ value. But using Libra will be great for people in countries with mis- managed currencies from A to Z: Argentina to Zimbabwe. With its tremendous user base, Facebook can help make Libra widely accepted. Unlikely to catch up with the dollar, it could easily eclipse projects such as Bitcoin, which has es- chewed day-to-day use in fa- vour of perfecting its decen- tralisation and security against censorship. Where Libra may really shine is in easy, inexpensive transfer. Facebook and its part- ners in the Libra Foundation understand ‘user experience’. They can build digital wal- lets and exchange platforms that are easy to use, another area where Bitcoin is lacking. Libra users may avoid ATM fees, bank service charges, and the fees merchants pass on to consumers for credit and debit card payments. Then there are the savings to people in parts of the world without our so- phisticated financial services industry. Remittance services charge double-digit percent- ages. In many parts of the global south, banks are hard to access, and their fees are high and unreliable. The result? A fi- nancial services system that ex- cludes 1.7 billion people. For financial outcasts, it’s harder to save, to start or ex- pand a small enterprise, to ed- ucate children, to provide for family healthcare and much more. The status quo in global financial services is a scandal. Part of the scandal is the surveillance system operated by the financial sector on behalf of governments worldwide. Man- dated customer background checks, suspicious activity re- porting, and high-value trans- action reporting impose costs disproportionate to their ben- efits, invade the privacy of the innocent, and undercut the in- centive to serve people in risky communities or countries. On this score, Libra will be a wash only with existing money systems, though. Face- book – no friend of privacy, ac- cording to many – has pledged that it and its Libra Founda- tion partners will obey the fi- nancial surveillance mandates that exist worldwide. That is not good for privacy or interna- tional development. But Libra represents an important step: competition among moneys. In the cryptocurrency world, there has been minor debate about whether Libra even counts as a true blockchain project or a true ‘cryptocur- rency’. It deviates from the pure versions of both. But Libra’s founding document says that it will begin to transition to an open, permissionless system – a real cryptocurrency – within five years. That second act may re- quire Libra to open a new front of competition – with itself. Competition is good. Let’s see what happens. - by Jim Harper Shut down Facebook’s currency plan before it begins Credit Facebook with this: The company sure is audacious. In June, Facebook an- nounced plans to start a new global currency. Think about that. If it sounds troubling to you, trust your instincts. Maintaining a monopoly over establishing the currency and making new coins is a de- fining feature of national sov- ereignty. Facebook wants to ab- rogate that right to itself – and do so on a worldwide scale. What could go wrong? A lot. In fact, the risks are so great that regulators around the world should shut down this new initiative before it gets off the ground. Let’s start with the easy-to- understand issues. Facebook has an atrocious record of pro- tecting consumer privacy. The Cambridge Analytica scandal made clear how little Facebook has done to protect privacy, but that is just one in a long list of examples. Why then would we trust Facebook with holding data on billions or even trillions of transactions around the world? Facebook says it’s creating a new subsidiary that will hold this data and not share it with other parts of Facebook. Why should we trust this? Fa- cebook is right now tearing down walls between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that it had previously said it would protect. Whether or not Facebook maintains this wall of sepa- ration, the new currency will enable it to glean even more information about its users, enabling it to engage in even more troubling advertising targeting and manipulation of consumers. There are broader con- sumer protection issues that arise, as well. With an inter- national platform using an in- ternational currency, it will be exceedingly difficult for regu- lators to crack down on bad actors who do business in the new Facebook currency. What happens when a lender in, say, Ukraine – perhaps failing to disclose where it is from – il- legally tricks people into bor- rowing from them and then imposes improper fees, charges and super high interest rates? How is a US regulator going to do anything about that? Even more, what chance does a reg- ulator in, say, Kenya have of preventing such abuses? There are serious ques- tions that do not involve tradi- tional scams, too. For example, will Facebook and its corporate partners be able to gain infor- mation enabling them to price discriminate against users? How might that exacerbate ra- cial inequalities? The proposal also seems almost certain to exacerbate Facebook’s excessive market power and undermine compe- tition. The risks are too great that Facebook will pull con- sumers into a closed Face- book ecosystem that will dis- advantage competitors and consumers. It’s easy enough to imagine, for example, Face- book and its partners disfa- vouring competitors, including by excluding them, offering discounts to Libra partners, or punishing those using al- ternative private currencies. If Facebook’s plans get to scale, then exclusion of competitors would be utterly devastating. Even more profound than the consumer protection and antitrust issues are matters of national sovereignty. For smaller countries, the Facebook currency could displace the na- tional currency, undermining the ability of national govern- ments to maintain control of their monetary policy. If coun- tries’ currencies come under attack, the Facebook currency could exacerbate the problem. Even bigger countries will face seemingly insurmountable problems: the Facebook cur- rency seems designed to en- able money laundering and to facilitate tax evasion and tax fraud. It also seems to provide a mechanism to facilitate eva- sion of economic sanctions. In announcing the currency proposal, Facebook has made a number of claims and prom- ises that would address some of the possible problems with its plans (though not most of them). But Facebook’s promises are not worth much at all. Even if Mark Zuckerberg and Face- book executives truly intend to honour the commitments they are making right now, there is nothing preventing them from changing their minds in the future. And that is a problem that speaks to fundamental problem with this whole scheme. Facebook is a corpo- ration with no public account- ability and, like other corpo- rations, a singular focus on generating profits. It has no business taking over govern- mental functions like issuing currency, precisely because it is not accountable and because its mission is to make profits, not advance the public interest. Facebook’s plans may well fail on their own. But they may not. The corporation’s global reach makes it possible that its new currency could gain wide- spread usage. Once that hap- pens, it will be exceedingly difficult to prevent the very identifiable dangers inherent in the concept. Regulators should shut down this idea right now. – by Robert Weissman About the writers: Jim Harper is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Robert Weissman is the president of Public Citizen, a non-profit consumer advocacy organisation that champions the public interest in the halls of power. Both wrote these pieces for InsideSources.com. Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency – the arguments for and against Jim HarperRobert Weissman5 LOCAL®IONAL CAYMAN COMPASS TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 Shetty sees digital future for healthcare New members for Rotary Sunrise Jim East passes away Four new members were inducted last week to the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise. The inductions were done at the first meeting of the club under its new president, Patricia Steward. Joining the club are Takeyce Palmer, Marlon Bodden, Bruce Smith and Kurt Walton. “Rotary success comes from connecting our membership to the local community. By growing our family, we can continue to do projects that impact community needs in the Cayman Islands and internationally,” Presi- dent Steward, said. Rotary Sunrise focusses on local projects in literacy, youth and community service. The club meets every Wednesday at George Town Yacht Club at 7am. Jim East, formerly of Boatswains Bay, West Bay, passed away on 29 June in Quincy, Illinois, after a brief illness. He was 81. For many years in Grand Cayman, he operated the maintenance and repair company, The House Doc- tors, which he started with James Merren and later ran with Sidney, Ronnie and Nigel Miller. East and his wife Susan came to Cayman in 1977 when he first worked at Kirk Motors. During his years in Cayman, he was a member of the Cayman Islands Ro- tary Club and the Cayman Islands Gun Club. JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@pinnaclemedialtd.com From a suite at Grand Cayman’s Marriott Beach Resort, Dr. Devi Shetty does the rounds. Tapping into an app on his smartphone, the heart surgeon monitors cardio- grams, absorbs X-ray results and keeps tabs on patients 10,000 miles away in Banga- lore, India. “This is a tool we de- veloped with Microsoft,” Shetty explained during an interview with the Com- pass on his recent visit to the islands. It is a kind of medical WhatsApp – a secure plat- form for medical records to be instantly shared between hospital staff. “We believe any pa- tient with a medical history should have medical records in their own phone,” he said. Every four hours, his smartphone buzzes with a new reading from a patient’s cardiac monitor, a blood re- port or a chest X-ray. “The moment the techni- cian touches the button on the X-ray machine, it appears here on my phone,” he said. Shetty, the entrepreneur behind Cayman’s Health City and a chain of hospi- tals in India and Bangla- desh, believes such digital tools will help make medi- cine cheaper and safer over the next 10 years. He holds the US patent for the technology and is piloting it at his hospital in Banga- lore before bringing it to the Cayman Islands. “Our entire group is working on this,” he said. “We want to develop extremely modern cloud-based elec- tronic medical records to be available to every hospital on the planet. The technology helps or- ganise the hospital, prevents delays in the transfer of in- formation or test results, and makes patient management easier, Shetty said. “One of the main reasons mistakes happen in health- care is paper and pen. We have to replace that with dig- ital tools,” he added. He said the technology will also help doctors mon- itor patients at home rather than keeping them in hos- pital for longer than neces- sary. He believes this could be particularly important in the Caribbean. “This is the best region to pilot these things. Each is- land has a small population. No cardiologist or neurolo- gist wants to live in those is- lands but people are going to have a heart attack, they are going to have a brain stroke, so we can treat them [in Cayman] and monitor them remotely once they have the data in their phone,” he said. He believes Health City will be the regional centre for critical care, with technology helping doctors monitor pa- tients remotely through Skype and smartphone tech- nology after the patients return home. He said smartphone tech- nology had already proven more effective than tradi- tional methods in moni- toring and managing blood sugar levels for diabetics. He believes it can be far more widely used in the future. “Healthcare in the future will be dramatically different than what you think,” he said. “In Bangalore, we have en- gineers who have worked for Google, Microsoft, Fa- cebook. We have 150 engi- neers working full-time and some in San Francisco devel- oping this.” “ One of the main reasons mistakes happen in healthcare is paper and pen. We have to replace that with digital tools.” DR. DEVI SHETTY Newly inducted Rotarian Takeyce Palmer is pinned by her sponsor, Past President Deirdre McFarlane, during a meeting of the Rotary Club Grand Cayman Sunrise on Wednesday, 3 July. Clean-up crew plucks 540 pounds of trash off beach More than 50 volunteers removed 540 pounds of rub- bish from Sand Hole Beach in West Bay on Saturday morning as part of a Plastic Free Cayman clean-up. The 53 volunteers were joined by Cayman Miss World contestants who helped with the clean-up. This year’s pag- eant has a strong emphasis on the environment. Department of Environ- ment Conservation Officer Casey Keller also came along to talk to the volunteers and edu- cate them about turtle nesting. Kerwin Ebanks of art collective STOAK’D also at- tended, to gather waste for an art project. Plastic Free Cayman’s next targeted cleanup will be held on 4 Aug. in South Sound. Jack Alan and Linda Clark sift for microplastics during Saturday’s beach clean-up. - PHOTO: AMANDA NICHOLLS NTSB TAKES OVER INVESTIGATION OF BAHAMAS HELICOPTER CRASH MIAMI (AP) – US officials have taken over the inves- tigation of a Bahamas heli- copter crash that killed bil- lionaire coal magnate Chris Cline and six other people. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss confirmed Monday that the wreckage has been moved to a secure site in the United States. He says a preliminary re- port should be available in about two weeks. The full investigation could take up to two years. The Bahamas Air Acci- dent Investigation Depart- ment says flight and data recorders have been re- covered and shipped to the NTSB in Washington for analysis. Bahamian officials say cranes pulled the 15-pas- senger Augusta AW139 from the ocean over the weekend. Investigators re- mained onsite Monday doc- umenting wreckage to de- termine the complete craft was recovered. The heli- copter crashed Thursday after taking off from a re- mote private island. Billionaire Chris Cline, pictured here in 2014, was among seven people killed on board a helicopter that crashed in the Bahamas on Thursday, 4 July. - PHOTO: AP Jim East Dr. Devi ShettyThe islands’ most-trusted news source 6 Community CALENDAR ■ COMMUNITY CALENDAR is published TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS. It is available to charitable or non-profit organisations. Items should be submitted at least three working days before publication. Information must include name of sender, signature and contact number. ■ Items may be brought to the Cayman Compass office on Shedden Road or emailed to cwinker@pinnaclemedialtd.com at least three days in advance of publication. TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 • CAYMAN COMPASS TUESDAY, 9 JULY ROTARACT CHARTER NIGHT: All are welcome to join Rotaract Blue for an evening of karaoke, in celebration of their 12th Annual Charter Night. The event starts at 7pm at the Lodge, located in the Strand. There will be happy hour specials and food for purchase. RSVP on Facebook at facebook.com/rotaractblue. THURSDAY, 11 JULY THATCH PLAITING CLASS: 7-9pm, Heritage House, Cayman Brac. Cost is $5. Contact bracautumnfestival@gmail.com. FRIDAY, 12 JULY NAU CLOSURE: The Needs Assessment Unit’s offices on Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac are closed today for a staff meeting. Normal hours will resume on Monday, 15 July. TUESDAY, 16 JULY SEAFARERS MEETING: The Cayman Islands Seafarers Association will hold a General Meeting today at 7:30pm in the Seafarers Hall, 11 Victory Ave. Prospect. Three buses will leave from West Bay Town Hall at 6pm. The Barnes Bus route in George Town will leave the Public Library parking area at 6:45pm, stopping at the Cayman Compass building and the Airport Fosters. The bus marked Bobo $1 Public transport, blue in colour, will pick up from British Caymanian, Uncle Bill’s, Walkers Road, Shedden Road and Crewe Road. The bus from East End will pick up at the school parking lot, gas station and Wreck of the Ten Sail, starting at 5:45pm. North Side pick-ups at Chisholm’s Store and the soccer field, starting at 6:15pm. Bodden Town pick-ups at Lorna’s gas station at 6:45pm, Savannah pick-up at gas station at 7pm. THURSDAY, 18 JULY HUMANE SOCIETY QUIZ: Monthly trivia to raise funds for the Humane Society. 7pm at Fidel Murphy’s. Ann Ghezzi will be hosting. Entry fee is $10 per person, six people per team. Call 949-5189 to book a table. SATURDAY, 20 JULY WOMEN’S DIVE DAY: Divetech will attempt to break its own record of the largest number of women taking part in a single dive today as it celebrates Women’s Dive Day 2019. The event will take place at Divetech’s shore diving site, Lighthouse Point and is a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Society. The aim is to have 100 women take part, to break last year’s record of 86. Spaces are on a first-come, first-served basis. $25 to secure a place. Call 946-5658, 7:30am to 5pm, or visit the dive shop. WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG STROKE AND STRIDE: The first of a three-series fundraiser race to support young triathletes and community charities will be held today for swimmers and runners. The swim distance increases each week while the run stays the same at 2 miles. Participate in 1, 2 or 3 of the races – individually or as a team. Race 1 is held today and consists of a 400-metre swim and a 2-mile run; Race 2 is on 14 Aug., a 600-metre swim and 2-mile run; and Race 3 is on 21 Aug., an 800-metre swim and 2-mile run. All races begin at 5:45pm at Sunset House. Entry fees are: Individuals, $15 per race/$35 for all 3; Teams, $25 per race/$60 all 3. Triathlon Association Membership required and is available for $15 at registration. GENERAL INTEREST YMCA SUMMER CAMPS: Camps will take place from 2 July to 23 Aug. across three locations – Field of Dreams, Camana Bay Sports Complex and the Youth Centre at the Cayman Islands Baptist Church in Savannah. For more information, visit www.ymcacayman.ky. On-site registration is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm at the Field of Dreams. The Day Camp team can also be reached at ysummercamp@ ymcacayman.ky. To find out about financial assistance, which is available for families in need, email info@ymcacayman.ky. COUNSELLING SERVICES: The Family Resource Centre and the Counselling Centre have moved. They are now with the Department of Counselling Services at their new home on Mary Street, at 87 West Apollo House. Hours are Mondays and Fridays from 9am to 1pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am to 7pm, and Wednesdays 9am to 4pm. SQUASH CLUB: The Cayman Islands Squash Club hosts a social evening for women on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm, and holds squash beginner lessons for adults every Monday at 7pm. For more information, email info@squash.ky. PIRATES WEEK VENDORS: Food and craft vendors interested in participating in the upcoming Pirates Week Festival can reserve stalls. Food Festival dates are 8, 9 and 11 Nov. A valid DEH Food Handling Certificate must accompany completed application forms. All food vendors must use biodegradable containers and utensils (available from Pirates Week Festival office – limited supply). Space is limited, please register early. Download the application form at www.piratesweekfestival.com/ participate. To learn more call 949-5078 or info@piratesweekfestival.com. LOCAL HARVEST MARKET: Local farmers sell their produce and farmed goods at Camana Bay on Wednesdays from 10am to 3pm in Heliconia Court (located next to Scotiabank). COMMUNITY CHESS: Tuesdays 5-8pm, West Indies Wine Company. Join the Cayman Chess Club for a complimentary chess class and open challenges weekly. Anyone can learn to play and enjoy chess, even beginners. ART OPEN CANVAS: At KARoo Restaurant in Camana Bay, Wednesdays 7-11pm. Artists of all levels are welcome to come and enjoy painting and socialising with other artists. Includes use of easels, lights, space and a beverage ticket. No fee. For more information, contact info@visualartcayman.com or jar.was@gmail.com. VISUAL ARTS SOCIETY: Adult Open Studio available to those who want to work independently in an inspiring atmosphere. Wednesdays for adults, 9am till noon. Thursdays Adults and Youth, 10am till noon. Watler House Art Studio, Pedro St. James. Fee is $5/$15 pp for ceramics. $15/$25 pp non-members. Includes use of studio, glazes and ceramic tools. Clay available $30 per bag/fee for kiln usage. To register, call 546-9422 or email info@visualartcayman.com. SEAFARERS HALL: The Cayman Islands Seafarers Association wishes to inform the community that the hall is now available for rent every day of the week, including Saturdays. THRIFT SHOP: Cayman Islands Humane Society Thrift Shop. Located in Venetia Plaza, next to China Village. The Thrift shop is open Tuesday – Saturday 9am to 2pm. Closed on Sunday and Monday. The phone number is 945-5596 THRIFT SHOP: One Dog at a Time’s New To U shop is now located at JJT Warehouses, Row 2, Unit 2 on Industrial Way. Open Saturdays 8am to 5pm and Wednesdays 10am to 2pm. Variety of items available, including men’s, women’s, children’s and baby clothes, shoes, household, electrical items, CDs, DVDs, books, home furnishings, toys, baby cribs, car seats, dog beds and more. BETHESDA COUNSELLING CENTRE: Caters to all who seek help. Open Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 5:30pm at 68 Mary Street. Appointments available Saturdays and late evenings. Owned and operated by the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Call 946-6575. HUMANE SOCIETY BOOK LOFT: North Sound Road. Open Monday 12:30- 4pm; Tues-Fri 9:30am to 4pm; Sat 9:30am to 4:30pm. Volunteers are needed for front desk a few hours per week. For more information, email humanesocietybookloft@ candw.ky or call 946-8053. Donations of books, games, CDs, stationery, cards, etc., in good condition needed. CLUBS, ORGANISATIONS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Meets daily to help with drinking problems. Call 926-9044 or visit www.caymanaa.org. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Is available for substance abuse help. Call the info line at 929–NANA (6262). AL-ANON GROUP MEETING: Are you troubled by someone’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups can help. Call 928-8843 or email caymanalanon@gmail.com for meeting times. OVERCOMERS OUTREACH: A Christ-centred 12-step recovery group addresses addictions and those affected by them. Meetings at Cayman Islands Baptist Church, Pedro Castle Road, Tuesdays, 7:15pm. For details, contact Vanessa Gilman at 946-2422, or visit www.overcomersoutreach.org. DEMENTIA/ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUP: This group meets on the last Wednesday of each month at ADACI’s office, 4th floor, Cardinall Plaza, 30 Cardinall Ave., George Town. Call 924-4170 or email info@adacayman.com. GRAND CAYMAN TOASTMASTERS: Club meets each Thursday 6-7:15pm on 3rd Floor, George Town Public Library. Visitors and guests welcome. Contact George R. Ebanks at 322-9369 or Grand Cayman Toastmasters club on Facebook. Email info@ toastmastersclub2686.org. EMINENT ORATORS TOASTMASTERS: Want to be a better speaker or leader? Join a Toastmasters Club. The Eminent Orators Toastmasters Club meets every second and fourth Monday at Cayman Academy Canteen, Walkers Road, 6-7:30pm. Contact Sashoy Duncan at 939-8847 or email eminentoratorstoastmasters @gmail.com. Visitors and guests welcome. THE LIONS CLUB OF GRAND CAYMAN: Meets every first and third Thursday 7:30pm at the Lions Community Centre. Email lionsclubgcm@hotmail.com. THE LIONS CLUB OF TROPICAL GARDENS: Meet every first and third Tuesday at 6:30pm at Elizabethan Square (corner unit). Members of the public are invited to attend. ROTARY CLUB OF GRAND CAYMAN SUNRISE: Service club meetings 7am every Wednesday at George Town Yacht Club, 612 North Sound Road. Visit www.rotarysunrise.ky or info@rotarysunrise.ky. KIWANIS CLUB OF GRAND CAYMAN: Meets first and third Wednesdays of the month, 12:30pm, at The Wharf Restaurant. Projects include promoting well- being of children in the community and schools. Email president@kiwanis.ky or view www.kiwanis.ky. RELIGIOUS SERVICES EL MINISTERIO HISPANO: de la Iglesia Bautista Cayman Islands te hace una cordial invitación a nuestro culto en español cada Domingo, 6:30pm, Pedro Castle Road, Savannah. Para transporte, llamar al teléfono no. 946-2422, email: cibaptist@candw.ky. SPANISH WORSHIP SERVICE: First Baptist Church, Crewe Road, 6:30-8:30pm. Third Sunday of each month. HARBOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH: Meets for Divine Worship and Fellowship at South Sound Community Centre, South Sound, Sundays at 10am www.safeharbourlc.com. For more Community Calendar events, visit www.caymancompass.com/events. The Cayman Islands Seafarers Association will hold a General Meeting on Tuesday, 16 July, at 7:30pm in the Seafarers Hall, 11 Victory Avenue, Prospect. - PHOTO: TANEOS RAMSAYThe islands’ most-trusted news source 7 CAYMAN COMPASS • TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 seeks analyses of viable, short-listed options for CINICO, first identified in a September 2014 review by EY. These recommendations were used to create a strategic out- line case approved by Cab- inet in September 2016. There are five short- listed options identified in the request: ■■ Status quo: Government remains CINICO’s pri- mary customer, pro- viding discounts and premiums to CINICO. CINICO continues to operate at a deficit. ■■ Outsource to private sector: CINICO’s health insurance business is outsourced to the pri- vate sector over the next 24 months. CINICO no longer exists as a gov- ernment-owned com- pany, “thus enabling the Government to receive better health insurance premiums and value for money”, according to the request for proposals. ■■ Partial outsourcing: Cov- erage of some member categories is outsourced to the private sector to reduce operating costs. Services that are not out- sourced are assessed to determine viability. ■■ Financial sustaina- bility: CINICO becomes more commercially vi- able and is given the power to eliminate pre- mium discounting, im- prove premium collection methods, expand prod- ucts and services, and increase membership. ■■ Sole provider: CINICO becomes the sole na- tional insurance pro- vider for all residents of the Cayman Islands. This option was approved by Cabinet following the September 2016 stra- tegic outline case, ac- cording to the RFP. Business problems The 2014 EY report iden- tified premium discounting by government as one of the key business problems facing CINICO. “Discounting health insur- ance premiums reduces the revenue that is available to CINICO for the prompt set- tlement and administration of medical claims and case management and results in operating deficits, the reduc- tion of CINICO’s cash flows and the exposure to opera- tional, credit and liquidity risks,” the report states. CINICO’s limited mem- bership and scope of prod- ucts was another problem that EY identified. “Expan- sion would give CINICO an opportunity to earn addi- tional revenue, reduce outpa- tient costs and unnecessary utilization services, reduce the Government’s health- care costs and respond to the changing needs in the health- care market in the Cayman Islands,” EY states. The 2014 report called the identified problems a matter of urgency due to the impact of CINICO’s operating deficits on core government’s finan- cial performance. Currently, $75.7 million of government’s $114.2 million total healthcare spending goes towards insurance pre- miums for civil servants, civil service pensioners, seamen, veterans and their depend- ants, according to the RFP. An additional $28.6 million is paid to the Health Ser- vices Authority for indigent care and uninsured children. The remaining $9.9 million is paid to overseas institu- tions and local private sector healthcare providers for ter- tiary care provided to indi- gents, uninsured, seamen and veterans. Vacant CEO position In October 2018, CINI- CO’s CEO Lonny Tibbetts was fired without public explana- tion. Since then, two individ- uals, Chief Financial Officer Frank Gallippi and Gen- eral Manager Dana Brandon, have been acting in the role, according to the Min- istry of Finance of Economic Development. While the CINICO Board of Directors has selected a CEO to replace Tibbetts, the decision is pending regula- tory approval. “As CINICO is a regulated insurance company, the ap- pointment of the CEO re- quires the approval/support of CIMA [Cayman Islands Monetary Authority]. The Board is currently in the pro- cess of obtaining CIMA’s ap- proval and providing WORC [Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman] with the necessary requested infor- mation for immigration pur- poses,” a ministry statement said on Monday. “Upon the approval of CIMA and Immigration, the Board aims to appoint the se- lected CEO – hopefully for 1 August 2019.” For more information about the request for proposals, visit government’s public purchasing portal at https://cayman.bonfirehub.com. Centre, with internet capa- bilities supplied by Logic, will supply a 24/7 live feed to a security monitoring sta- tion, allowing for Depart- ment of Environment of- ficers to be dispatched when a nesting turtle arrives at the beach. The project seeks to as- sist the DoE in monitoring the beach and in providing additional protection from poaching. The camera will be installed in the coming days and is expected go live early next week. Ridley said, “We are all very excited and confident that the data obtained from this project will prove in- valuable in assisting the De- partment off Environment in their conservation efforts.” Janice Blumenthal, DoE marine research officer, said the camera would assist the DoE’s islandwide moni- toring efforts. “The Department of Envi- ronment is extremely grateful to Mr. Ridley, property owners, sponsors and com- munity donors for making this project possible,” she said. “Sand Hole Road is a critically important nesting beach and poaching poses a constant threat to the sur- vival of the sea turtles that nest there. “We believe that this camera will greatly as- sist in the DoE’s efforts to protect them.” Ridley added thanks to sponsors and collaborators, The Grove, Logic, The Se- curity Centre and Moore & Moore Investments Ltd. Michael Ridley, front, second from right, and a group of Department of Environment officials and corporate sponsors celebrate the fundraising milestone. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Turtle-watch project gets go-ahead Proposals sought for revamp of CINICO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The CINICO headquarters on Dorcy Drive in George Town. - PHOTO: STEPHEN CLARKE CHILD DIES IN FALL FROM CRUISE SHIP IN PUERTO RICO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A 1-year-old girl appar- ently slipped from her grandfather’s hands and fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, po- lice said Monday. Police Sgt. Nelson Sotelo told The Associated Press that the family of the child will remain in the US terri- tory until the investigation is complete. He said officers have not been able to inter- view any relatives yet. “They’re in shock,” he said. Authorities said the girl was travelling with her parents, two siblings and two sets of grandpar- ents aboard the Freedom of the Seas, which docked in Puerto Rico on Sunday after a week-long trip through the Caribbean. The death occurred Sunday afternoon at the Panamerican dock in the capital of San Juan. Sotelo said the tod- dler’s maternal grandfa- ther, Salvatore Anello of Val- paraiso, Indiana, is under investigation. He said the rest of the family is from Granger, Indiana. The South Bend Police Department said in a state- ment that the girl was the daughter of Officer Alan Wiegand and asked “the community to pray for the entire Wiegand family as they grieve and to respect their privacy”. The police chief of South Bend, Indiana, Scott Rusz- kowski, disputed the state- ment issued by Puerto Rico police that the girl was being held out of a window in an interview with WSBT television. Puerto Rico Port Au- thority spokesman José Carmona told the AP that the family was gathered in or near a dining hall on the 11th floor and that the grandfather sat the toddler on the edge of a window. He said officials are investi- gating whether the window was already opened or if someone had opened it. Royal Caribbean Cruises called it a tragic incident and said it was helping the family. A spokeswoman said the ship departed Puerto Rico on Monday for St. Maarten on a new itin- erary and declined fur- ther comment. The 1-year-old child fell from the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship. - PHOTO: FILE MEXICO EXTENDS $100 MILLION REFORESTING PROGRAMME TO HONDURAS MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico said Monday it will extend a reforestation programme to Honduras, and increase funding to $100 million to create jobs in Central America and stem migration from the region. Mexico had already an- nounced a $30 million tree- planting programme for El Salvador and that money is presumably part of the $100 million total effort. Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s foreign relations secretary, said Honduras’ president is expected to finalise details in a visit to Mexico this month. Ebrard said creating jobs will do more to stop the flow of migrants than border en- forcement measures. It is unclear whether Guatemala will also join Mexico’s refor- estation programme. A similar plan to plant fruit and lumber trees is al- ready being implemented in southern Mexico; it is one of the pet projects of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Ebrard also said that 327 Central American mi- grants awaiting US asylum hearings have found jobs in northern Mexico, and that companies had offered a total of 3,700 positions. Under the Remain in Mexico programme, 16,714 Central Americans who ap- plied for asylum in the United States have been re- turned to Mexico so far this year to await the resolution of their US cases. Critics claim the pro- gramme, also known as the Migrant Protection Proto- cols, leaves migrants in Mex- ican border cities with no in- come or housing.The islands’ most-trusted news source 8 TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 • CAYMAN COMPASS UN ‘appalled’ at conditions for US migrants The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has challenged Trump administration policies and said Monday she is ‘appalled’ by the conditions facing detained migrants and refugees in the United States. UK moves to limit fallout from envoy’s leaked memos on Trump Prime Minister Theresa May moved to contain the diplomatic fallout with the US, following the leak of memos written by the UK’s ambassador in Washington describing President Donald Trump’s administration as “inept”. The Cabinet Office is leading an investigation into the leak after the Mail on Sunday reported the content of cables written by Kim Dar- roch, a career diplomat who’s been his country’s top rep- resentative in the US since 2016. May’s spokesman, James Slack, told reporters on Monday the British gov- ernment has contacted the US, calling the leak a “matter of regret”. He stopped short of saying the UK has apologised for the content of the memos. “The leak is absolutely un- acceptable and as you would expect contact has been made with the Trump admin- istration saying this is unac- ceptable,” Slack said, adding that while May doesn’t share Darroch’s views, she retains “full faith” in him. “The prime minister has a good relationship with the president,” Slack said. Trump reacted angrily to the diplomatic commu- nications – known as dip- tels – on Sunday. “We’re not big fans of that man, and he has not served the UK well,” he told reporters. “I can say things about him, but I won’t bother.” International Trade Secre- tary Liam Fox, who is due to meet Ivanka Trump in the US on Monday, told BBC Radio there’s no reason Darroch should not remain in post, and called for the person re- sponsible for the leak to be punished. “I don’t see frankly that this is an impediment to the ambassador being able to work in Washington,” Fox said. “Malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional, they’re unethical and they’re unpatriotic because they can actually lead to damage to that relationship which can therefore affect our wider se- curity interests.” The most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office, Simon McDonald, told a com- mittee of lawmakers in Par- liament it is too early to tell how significant the impact is on the UK-US relationship. “There is clearly significant damage that we must as- sess over the days and I sus- pect weeks and months to come,” he said. Darroch, 65, is a former na- tional security adviser to the UK government. His memos, and those of other ambassa- dors around the world, are sent via government email to relevant civil servants and politicians, with a classifi- cation level set according to their content. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan told Parliament the circulation list could exceed 100. The Mail on Sunday re- ported that Darroch de- scribed the current White House as “uniquely dysfunc- tional” and given to “knife fights”. In the memos seen by the paper, Darroch didn’t rule out Trump being in- debted to “dodgy Russians”, yet said that the president had frequently overcome a life “mired by scandal”. Trump may “emerge from the flames, battered but intact, like [Arnold] Schwarzenegger in the final scenes of ‘The Terminator’”, Darroch wrote, according to the newspaper. “Do not write him off.” The leak comes after Trump travelled to the UK in early June to meet Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Min- ister Theresa May, a visit in which he was treated to a state dinner. Darroch said Trump and his team had been “dazzled” by the pomp and circumstance sur- rounding the visit but re- mained self-interested. The response to Darroch’s commentary cleaved along partisan lines. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, a close ally whom the president once said would make a “great” ambassador to the US, called the incumbent envoy “totally unsuitable for the job”. On Monday, Farage told BBC Radio that he himself would not be the “right man” to be ambassador but that he could be “very useful” in strengthening British ties with the Trump administra- tion. The author of the Mail on Sunday report – Isabel Oakeshott – ghost-wrote “The Bad Boys of Brexit” for Arron Banks, a key donor to the Leave.EU campaign led by Farage. “Experienced, capable and patriotic diplomats doing their jobs well by writing un- varnished analysis for their governments,” political sci- entist Ian Bremmer, head of Eurasia Group, said on Twitter. “Farage wants him sacked; he’d rather be lied to.” © 2019, Bloomberg The most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office, Simon McDonald, told a committee of lawmakers in Parliament it is too early to tell how significant the impact is on the UK-US relationship. Leaked diplomatic cables from British Ambassador Kim Darroch about the Trump administration were featured in a British newspaper. - PHOTO: AP British Airways faces $229 million fine over data breach LONDON (AP) – British Air- ways is facing a 183 million- pound (US$229 million) fine over a breach that compro- mised information on half a million customers – the big- gest penalty to date under new, tougher regulations and one that is likely to be seen as a test case for com- panies that fail to secure big data caches. Britain’s Information Commissioner proposed the fine on Monday, months after BA revealed it had been the victim of a hack. The scam saw customers diverted to a fake website where credit card details were harvested by the attackers. “People’s personal data is just that – personal. When an organisation fails to protect it from loss, damage or theft it is more than an inconven- ience,” Information Commis- sioner Elizabeth Denham said. “That’s why the law is clear – when you are en- trusted with personal data you must look after it.” The regulator said that the proposed fine – equiva- lent to 1.5% of the airline’s annual revenue – is the big- gest it has ever imposed. It comes about a year after European Union member states began implementing the most sweeping change in data protection rules in a generation. The General Data Pro- tection Regulation, or GDPR for short, is designed to make it easier for EU resi- dents to give and withdraw permission for companies to use personal informa- tion – but also forces compa- nies that hold data to be ac- countable for looking after it. Authorities can fine com- panies up to 4% of annual revenue or 20 million euros (US$22.5 million), which- ever is higher, for breaching the rules. The Information Commis- sioner’s Office says its in- vestigation of BA found that “poor security arrangements” compromised login, payment card, and travel booking de- tails as well as name and ad- dress information. The parent company of BA, International Airlines Group, said it would fight the proposed fine. It has 28 days to make its case in the first step of the process, which could take some time to complete. “We intend to take all ap- propriate steps to defend the airline’s position vigorously, including making any neces- sary appeals,” said IAG CEO Willie Walsh. The proposed fine is the largest for the ICO since telling Facebook to pay 500,000 pounds (US$663,000) for allowing the political con- sultancy Cambridge Ana- lytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook users. But the Facebook matter took place before the new GDPR rules came into ef- fect and was the max- imum penalty at the time of the incidents. Monday’s announcement is a watershed moment for Denham’s office, in that it marks the first major foray into what happens under the new legislation when in- formation authorities accuse well-meaning companies of falling short in data protec- tion regimes. The proposed BA fine could particularly worry companies that use lots of data, even though their busi- ness concerns something else, such as flying planes. These companies have to re- ally open themselves to se- curing their data despite the cost or face scary fines, said Emily Taylor, CEO of Oxford Information Labs, a cyberse- curity consultancy. “[The information com- missioner’s office] are going for a very big signal to the entire marketplace,” Taylor said. “This is the message: Get your information security house in order.” “ People’s personal data is just that – personal. When an organisation fails to protect it from loss, damage or theft it is more than an inconvenience.” INFORMATION COMMISSIONER ELIZABETH DENHAM British Airways has been hit with a massive fine over a data breach that compromised information on half a million customers. – PHOTO: AP9 WORLD®IONAL CAYMAN COMPASS • TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019 The Family of the Late Edward Clarke-Blagrove regret to announce his passing on Wednesday, 3 July 2019. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at West Bay Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Viewing will be from 2:00 p.m. prior to the service. Interment will follow at the Boatswain Bay Cemetery. Condolences can be registered at www.boddenfuneralservices.com & Bodden Funeral Service Facebook page STRONG QUAKE CAUSES PANIC IN EASTERN INDONESIA JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – A strong subsea earthquake late Sunday night caused panic in parts of eastern Indonesia and triggered a tsunami warning that was later lifted. There were no immediate re- ports of major damage or casualties. The US Geological Survey said the magni- tude 6.9 quake was cen- tred 115 miles southeast of Manado in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 15 miles. The national dis- aster agency said the tsu- nami warning issued for North Sulawesi and North Maluku was cancelled just after midnight, about two hours after the quake hit. It said it was still gath- ering information but was hampered by loss of com- munications with disaster officials in North Maluku. A hospital in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, was damaged and patients evacuated, according to a local disaster official. The quake caused panic in the city of Ternate in the Maluku island chain, where people ran to higher ground, a witness told The Associated Press. The disaster agency said residents in Manado ran out of their homes in panic. It said residents in North Sulawesi and North Maluku should return to their homes. Indonesia, a vast ar- chipelago of 260 million people, is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis be- cause of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of vol- canoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. Saudi carrier cancels troubled Boeing 737 order for Airbus DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A Saudi budget airline is or- dering 30 Airbus planes in a deal that replaces a $6 billion agreement it had with Boeing for its troubled 737 Max jets, which have been grounded after two deadly crashes. It’s the latest blow to Boeing as it struggles to win back the public’s trust after 346 people died in crashes involving the Max jet: a Lion Air flight that went down off the coast of Indonesia and an Ethiopian Airlines crash. Nearly 400 Max jets around the world remain grounded since mid-March with airlines unable to use the planes until regulators clear them to fly again. Flyadeal, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Airlines Corp., said Monday that its order means its fleet will consist of only Airbus A320s. It said the deal with the European plane maker includes options for a further 20 A320 Neo planes. The statement did not name Boeing and did not dis- close details of the cost, only saying it follows from an agreement signed during the Paris Air Show last month between Airbus and flyadeal’s parent company. Boeing, meanwhile, faces dozens of lawsuits over the crashes of its 737 Max. Pre- liminary investigations point to the role played by new soft- ware that pushed the planes’ noses down. The Chicago- based company said in a state- ment to The Associated Press on Monday that it does not comment on customer discus- sions. Rather, Boeing said it is proud of its long partner- ship with Saudi Arabia’s avia- tion industry. “We wish the flyadeal team well as it builds out its operations,” Boeing said. “Our team continues to focus on safely returning the 737 Max to service and resuming de- liveries of Max airplanes.” In December 2018, Boeing had struck an agreement with flayadeal for 30 of the 737 Max jets with the op- tion to purchase 20 more in a deal valued up to $5.9 bil- lion at list price. At the time, Boeing said flyadeal had con- ducted an evaluation for 50 narrow-body aeroplanes and had selected the 737 Max for the future. The 737 Max, which promised more seats and lower operating costs than its Airbus competitor, was Boeing’s fastest-selling aer- oplane, accumulating more than 4,800 orders worldwide. In April, Boeing reported a $1 billion charge against earnings because of higher production costs for the Max. Analysts expect more charges will follow, including com- pensation for families and for airlines that have lost the use of the planes until regulators clear them to fly again. Boeing has apologised for the loss of lives and recently announced an “initial invest- ment” of $100 million over several years to help families and communities affected by the crashes. Conservatives win Greek election, oust left-wing PM ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Con- servative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis com- fortably won Greece’s par- liamentary elections Sunday, delivering a stinging blow to leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after a tumultuous four years in office as the country struggled through a crippling financial crisis. With more than 90% of votes counted, Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party had 39.8% of the votes, compared to 31.5% for Tsipras’ left- wing Syriza party. The extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, founded by neo-Nazi supporters, nar- rowly failed to make the 3% threshold needed to enter parliament – a huge fall of support for a party that had become the third-largest in the Greek legislature during the country’s financial crisis. The results indicated Greek voters bucked a recent trend in Europe of citizens rejecting the political main- stream and turning to popu- list and eurosceptic parties. “I asked for a strong mandate to change Greece. You offered it generously,” Mitsotakis said in his vic- tory speech. “From today, a difficult but beautiful fight begins.” Mitsotakis. 51, vowed to abide by his campaign pledges to cut taxes, attract investment and improve the job market. He had been ahead in opinion polls for three years and managed to build a sizeable lead. “Greeks deserve better and the time has come for us to prove it,” he said. Mitsotakis was scheduled to be officially sworn in as prime minister Monday, and was expected to announce his Cabinet later in the day. Tsipras conceded defeat and phoned Mitsotakis to congratulate him. “The citizens have made their choice. We fully respect the popular vote,” Tsipras said in a speech from cen- tral Athens. He said his party now would work to protect the rights of working Greeks as “a responsible but dy- namic opposition” to the government. Tsipras said he hoped New Democracy’s return to government “will not lead to vengeance … particularly to- ward the significant achieve- ments to protect the social majority and the workers”. The election was the first since Greece emerged from three international bailouts that were dependent on suc- cessive governments im- plementing strict austerity measures, including major tax hikes and spending cuts. The financial crisis saw un- employment and poverty levels skyrocket and the economy shrink by a quarter. Mitsotakis, the son of a former prime minister, brother of a former for- eign minister and uncle to a newly elected mayor of Athens, fought during the campaign to shed the image of family privilege. He pledged to make Greece more business- friendly, attract foreign in- vestment, to modernise the country’s notorious bureau- cracy and to cut taxes. Tsipras, 44, called the election three months ahead of schedule after Syriza suf- fered a severe defeat in Eu- ropean Union and local elec- tions in May and early June. He had led his small Co- alition of the Radical Left, or Syriza, party to power in 2015 on promises to re- peal the austerity of Greece’s first two bailouts. But after months of tough negotiations with international creditors that saw Greece nearly crash out of the European Union’s joint currency, he was forced to change tack and sign up to a third bailout that imposed spending cuts and tax hikes. He also cemented a deal with neighbouring North Macedonia under which that country changed its name from plain “Macedonia.” Al- though praised by Western allies, the deal angered many Greeks, who consider use of the term by their neighbor to harbor expansionist aims on the Greek province of the same name. MEDIUM-SIZED QUAKE HITS SOUTHWESTERN IRAN, CAUSING INJURIES TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A magnitude 5.7 earth- quake jolted a town in southwestern Iran on Monday, injuring more than 100 people and dam- aging buildings. The semi-official ILNA news agency says seven out of the 112 people in- jured were hospitalised, and an older man died of a heart attack during the earthquake. Rescue teams were still combing the mountainous area around the town of Masjid Soleiman in the Khuzestan province bor- dering Iraq. Some 6,000 people live in 15 villages near the epicentre. State TV showed footage of damaged build- ings and piles of rubble. Iman Nazarpour, a local resident, told The Associ- ated Press that the quake damaged buildings in the centre of town. Rahim Za- heri, another resident, said some older buildings had collapsed while others showed cracks. Iran is located on major seismic faults and experi- ences one earthquake per day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southern Iran, killing 26,000 people. The US Geological Survey said Monday’s quake was centred 17 miles southeast of Masjid Soleiman, and at a depth of 6 miles. At least five after- shocks were recorded, and tremors were felt as far away as Kuwait. The town was the site of the first oil well in Iran and the Middle East. Greek opposition New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis waves to his supporters Sunday after winning parliamentary elections. – PHOTO: APNext >