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Compass Centre, Shedden Road, George Town, Cayman Islands SEND US YOUR VIEWS OR NEWS: P.O. Box 1365 Grand Cayman, KY1-1108 Cayman Islands Telephone: (345) 815-0095 Email:newsdesk@compassmedia.ky ADVERTISE WITH US: T: (345) 949-5111 E: sales@compassmedia.ky W: caymancompass.com PUBLISHER KATHLEEN CAPETTA EDITOR IN CHIEF KEVIN MORALES Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with a 60% chance of morning showers and thunder. Forecast today 90°F HIGH WINDS East to southeast at 10 to 15 knots with higher gust. SEA STATE Slight with wave heights 2 to 4 feet. Caymancompass.com Facebook.com/Caycompass cayman_compass@cayCompassCayman Compass weather Cayman Islands 78°F LOW Cayman sees 1st local COVID transmission in more than 2 months The Cayman Islands on 21 Sept. recorded what is believed to be the first locally transmitted case of COVID-19 in more than two months. Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Lee confirmed the person who tested positive had no travel history and was asymptomatic. He said it appears the person may have contracted the disease some time ago but it has lingered in their body as the PCR test picked up inactive viral particles. Fourteen contacts have been tested, all of whom returned negative results. It had been more than 10 weeks since the last case of community transmission of the virus was reported. All the positive cases that have been found in that time have involved people who have travelled to Cayman from overseas. It was the lone positive case from 688 test results reported between 19 and 23 Sept. Police search coastline for drugs Police officers searched the shoreline and water for ganja packages that were dropped from a drug boat on Thursday morning. The police helicopter and several boats patrolled the coastline along North West Point in the early morning on the lookout for the drugs. Several bales of ganja wrapped in white packaging were recovered by police and members of the public as they floated to shore. Police recovered suitcases also believed to contain packages of the drugs. An unmanned canoe remained floating off North West Point on Thursday morning. Funding boost for early childhood assistance The Ministry of Education has approved an increase in funding for students in the Early Childhood Assistance Programme to help support parents and children negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. According to the ministry, the amount has been increased from $450 to $500 for supplementary funding and from $275 to $305 for basic funding. The allocations are determined by a financial means test. The programme, announced by the ministry on Wednesday, provides financial assistance to parents/guardians of Caymanian children who turn 3 years old before 1 Sept. and who meet the means-testing requirements. The funds cover or aid payment of enrolment fees for Early Childhood Education Centres. Police agree to support LGBTQIA+ residents Police will appoint a liaison officer for Cayman’s LGBTQIA+ community and will review officer diversity training, among other steps, following a meeting Friday that included representatives of Colours Cayman and the LGBTQ Foundation. An investigation has also begun into recent anti-LGBTQIA+ social media posts to determine if breaches of the Penal Code have been committed, the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service wrote in a press release on Wednesday. Messages leaked from a WhatsApp chat group, Cayman Caribbean Cause, created safety concerns among the LGBTQIA+ community for their violent and disparaging content. The initial RCIPS response, indicating complaints received about the messages were “not of a criminal nature”, provoked further concern and condemnation from Colours Cayman that safety threats were not being taken seriously. The outcome of Friday’s meeting indicated progress between law enforcement and the LGBTQIA+ community. Police Commissioner Derek Byrne described the meeting as productive, frank and honest. One of the bales of ganja that washed up on shore in West Bay on Thursday morning. Local and regional news briefs cayman compass 2 N news FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020cayman compass 3 FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020 SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE OUR OFFICE WILL CLOSE EARLY 2 OCTOBER, 12:00PM www.BritCay.ky | @BritCay British Caymanian Insurance Company Limited | BritCay House, 236 Eastern Avenue, P.O. Box 74, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1102 | 12 Kirkconnell Street, P.O. Box 254, Stake Bay, Cayman Brac KY2-2101 | A member of Colonial Group International Ltd. We thank you for understanding. We look forward to assisting you with your insurance needs.1234567 89 101112 13 1415 16 171819 20 212223 2425 1234567 89 101112 13 1415 16 171819 20 212223 2425 ACROSS 1 Tetanus (7) 5 Grossly stupid (5) 8 Traditionalists (3,6) 9 Be indebted to (3) 10 Nervously anxious (4) 12 Unfortunate (3-5) 14 Fundamental (6) 15 Elder (6) 17 Erudition (8) 18 Transaction (4) 21 Excessively (3) 22 Have an advantage over (2,3,2,2) 24 Greek island (5) 25 Stonework (7) DOWN 1 Inexact (5) 2 Important food fish (3) 3 Knave (4) 4 Without limitation (6) 5 Loss of nerve (4,4) 6 Not a moment too soon! (5,4) 7 Gracefully thin (7) 11 Manage by oneself (2,2,5) 13 Hateful (8) 14 Judicious (7) 16 Apprise (6) 19 Tall and thin (5) 20 Smaller amount (4) 23 Cooking vessel (3) The Compass Crossword Puzzle The Compass universal kakuro Puzzle 16493 The numbers in the black cells are clues. Numbers above the slash are across clues. Number below the slash are down clues. The goal is to enter digits 1 - 9 in the white cells to add up to the number clues. You cannot enter any digit more than once when adding up to clue. TODAY'S SOLUTIONS Puzzle 16493 ACROSS: 1 Lockjaw, 5 Crass, 8 Old school, 9 Ore, 10 Edgy, 12 Ill-fated, 14 Primal, 15 Senior, 17 Learning, 18 Deal, 21 Too, 22 Be one up on, 24 Crete, 25 Masonry. DOWN: 1 Loose, 2 Cod, 3 Jack, 4 Wholly, 5 Cold feet, 6 About time, 7 Slender, 11 Go it alone, 13 Damnable, 14 Politic, 16 Inform, 19 Lanky, 20 Less, 23 Pan. cartoon Hate - By Caymanman New COVID case is likely community transmission Until a vaccine is found, COVID isn’t going away. Just have to learn to manage it; bring back the masks, etc. – Steve Smith It’s still going around if the person has no history of travel. – Jean Flores We stopped wearing masks. Bad idea. – Jasmin Nadia 1 in 3 government emails unanswered, investigation finds I can’t understand why the deputy governor keeps insisting that the civil service is performing as required. He needs to get with reality and do something about the poor customer service and inefficient business and technical processes that are creating major headaches for the public. – Bruce Smith They can be so unaccountable that they don’t even answer emails but yet they have high-paying jobs and pension. – Jadie Forbes Cayman’s LGBTQIA+ allies ‘let the sun set on hate’ Well, wouldn’t that be nice. Hate, abuse, insults, pain, hard- ships, trauma, death, destruction, and attacks is all I’ve known for TEN years now. – Richard Riedel Where is the picture in the paper of the Caymanians (real, native and many elderly ones) who turned up and formed a human chain from Legislative Assembly building to government building? – Megan Elizabeth Just a note: the governor called on BOTH SIDES to dial it down. – Charles D. Bush Woman cut free from crashed car Yes, most roundabouts need to be reviewed or have police patrol- ling them so that people can use it properly. Stop lights is also a good idea. Please note that most lanes don’t have the little reflecters to alert the driver that they are going to the other lane. This used to be a guide from bright lights, as well. I guess the whole point is all road laws need to be reviewed. ‘Cause I’m also scared if something happens to my child while in the car (God forbid). – Perla R. Allen Hope she is safe. Wouldn’t it be safe for everyone if all the roundabouts, especially the one by Hurley’s and the Butterfield round- about, were converted to traffic lights instead? – Sangeetha Prabhakar The roundabout at Hurley’s has always been awful, now it is even worse. The straight road leading from Shamrock to South Sound Road needs to be closed completely and all traffic use the roundabout lanes to turn to go to South Sound. My opinion. – Leonie Merren- Ebanks These trucks drive so badly and way too fast. Somebody is going to be killed. They also drive so fast through the Hurley’s roundabout area (both ways) and use their engine brakes (to save their actual brakes from wear) which is so loud. The whole of the Grand Harbour area can hear these engine brakes all day. Engine brakes should not be allowed to be used in residential area. – Allan James Holdsworth The police need to do some- thing about these trucks on the road, they go at such a speed sometimes and don’t give way at the roundabouts, so if you expect them to, you’re in trouble. Also the Hurley’s roundabout is a mess, don’t have a clue how it works. It’s a tragedy waiting to happen. Something needs to be done. – Keisha Stephenson I was nearly run off the road today by one of these trucks too. Driving SO fast round the round- about, it nearly tipped! – Emma Kendall Learn to drive, that’s the plain truth! In Europe they have and are continuing to take away traffic lights and replacing them with round- abouts – no problem. But people drive with their heads. You keep the traffic flowing so much better. – Bo Lennart Hansson That Hurley’s roundabout was bad enough, but it’s much worse now. The new Tomlinson one go- ing east, right lane is another death trap waiting to happen. – Alex Johnson Constant changes to the round- abouts and roadways without proper public education is not helping. If you don’t drive some of these roads regularly, you’d never know how drastically they’ve changed recently. – Cas Barnett NRA carries out drainage work on edge of landfill This is good news but where will the ‘water’ be drained to? Surely this cannot be drained into our sea? – Allan James Holdsworth You don’t want to know how much toxin is probably in that drainage water. We need a better solution to our garbage problems. – Kendra Smith Another way for Dart to get the dump moved? – Steve Kro DEH puts dent in derelict car problem Also charge the last owner. – Marjorie Ranjeet-Bancroft Issue fines or this will be a recurring dumping problem. – Amar Sheow What they’re saying Online Police inspect the scene where a car collided with a cement-mixer truck as the Honda Civic was entering South Sound Road from Shamrock Road on Monday morning. A woman was cut free from the car and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. 4cayman compass 5 FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020 “Kadejah, it was a sincere pleasure to work with you during your reign as MCIU this past year. You phenomenally represented our Islands at the Miss Universe pageant in December 2019 and throughout 2020 you continued to shine, especially as we endured the global Covid pandemic. We are truly proud of you. Thank you for finding creative avenues to express yourself and to inspire others to reach for the stars. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors - no doubt, you will accomplish many amazing things.” - Best wishes, Your MCIU Committee Bodden Miss Cayman Islands Universe 2019/20 en Islands 9/2Ritz-Carlton and Kimpton Seafire resorts impacted JAMES WHITTAKER jwhittaker@compassmedia.ky The Dart group is scaling back operations at The Ritz-Carlton and Kimpton Seafire resorts in a move that will impact hundreds of jobs. Around 400 employees who had left the island but who received relief pay through the end of May and were being kept on contract, will now be let go. Dozens of workers still on island will also receive severance packages. Caymanian and expat employees will both be affected. Neither hotel is closing completely and both will maintain a core staff to service staycation guests and diners, the company said. Some of the restaurants are expected to reduce hours, while Avecita at the Seafire resort and Blue at The Ritz-Carlton are already closed. Managers at both hotels were meeting with staff Thursday morning to relay the news. Dart CEO Mark VanDevelde said the hotel portfolio had been running operational losses of around $3 million a month since March, even before accounting for relief payments, staff meals and other benefits for impacted employees. He said that could not continue without any sign of a significant reopening for tourism on the horizon. VanDevelde said the company had paid its staff throughout the crisis, including making relief payments to non-working employees and funding repatriation flights for foreign staff to return to their home countries. Deciding to let staff go at this stage is one of the toughest decisions the company had had to make during its history on the island, he said. But with the COVID-19 numbers escalating again around the globe and Cayman maintaining a 14-day quarantine period for arriving visitors, he said there is no current opportunity for sustainable hotel tourism on the island. Staycations While staycations have been strong, particularly at Seafire, neither resort has achieved more than 20% average occupancy, and room rates have been averaging less than half of what they were a year ago. “Both hotels have embraced the opportunity to welcome local guests, but the staycation market is simply not sustainable as a business model,” VanDevelde said. He said the hotels would go into a “limited service mode”. Exactly what that entails is still being worked out but it is likely to involve reduced hours at some restaurants and potentially closing off blocks of rooms at each resort. VanDevelde confirmed that employees currently on leave of absence because of COVID would not return to work and that each hotel would reduce staff numbers locally. Anyone affected will get severance packages and, in the case of foreign workers, repatriation flights. He said Dart had helped its employees as much as possible since the airport closed in March in the hope of “bridging the gap” to a return of tourism in Cayman, but with no certainty about if and when that can happen, he said tough decisions had to be made. “If we had a fair idea that we could be back to some level of normal in the next six months, we might not have had to make this decision,” VanDevelde said. “The international situation is not helping out right now and everything is getting pushed back.” He expects Cayman’s tourism product to be focussed on long-stay residents and second-home owners for the short-term future. If a vaccine comes on the scene or the situation changes more swiftly than imagined, he said the hotels would staff up again. Long-term outlook more optimistic Long term, he remains optimistic about the Cayman Islands as a des- tination and believes the handling of the COVID crisis could actually stand the island in good stead once the immediate impacts of the pandemic subside. Dart has taken the decision to bring forward renovations to The Ritz-Carlton to January 2021 and the hotel will close for several months in the summer of that year as work progresses with a view to reopening for a more normal high season in October 2021. Work is already under way on a refurbishment and rebrand of the Comfort Suites and the developer maintains an interest in at least three other hotel projects, includ- ing a long-planned five-star project and a smaller eco-friendly resort. “We are very optimistic about what the Cayman Islands has to offer,” said VanDevelde. “Everything that made these last three years so successful is still in place. [The question of] when the pandemic ends is an area of signifi- cant uncertainty, but when it does end, I think the island will rebound very quickly.” New jobs blow as Dart scales back hotel operations Neither hotel is closing completely and both will maintain a core staff to service staycation guests and diners . Dart CEO Mark VanDevelde The Kimpton Seafire resort, pictured, and The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, both owned by Dart, are scaling back operations. 6cayman compass 7 FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020 TheRupertMcCoyMemorialEducationGrantprogrammeisoneofthemanybenefitsofferedtoCreditUnionmember-ownersandtheirimmediatefamily membersandisintendedtoprovideanopportunityforourmemberstofulfilltheireducationalandcareergoals. InAugust2020,theCreditUnionawardedKYD$200,000ineducationgrantsto226studentstoassistwithachievingtheirpost-secondaryeducational goals. 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The notice, issued on 17 Sept. by the General Registry’s Head of Compliance Paul Inniss, gives the school 14 days to comply in order to avoid sanctions. Inniss declined to confirm or deny if an investigation was being carried out into the financial operations at the school, telling the Cayman Compass via email, “The Registrar is unable to comment on any investigation it is undertaking.” St. Ignatius has been registered since 2018 as an non-profit organisation and is listed as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands under the category of ‘Religious and Educational Organisation’, Inniss told the Compass. He indicated that both the school and church are registered together as one entity. A number of other issues regarding the school have arisen recently. They include the resignation of principal Emily Alexander and the abolition of the School Advisory Board, which has since been replaced by a School Advisory Committee. This week, parents launched an online petition calling for more transparency at the school. That petition, which by Thursday afternoon had more than 330 signatures, will be delivered to the Archdiocese of Detroit, which oversees the operations of the church and school. The Compass reached out to the Archdiocese late Wednesday for comment on the non-compliance notice and was advised that a statement would be issued. “The Archdiocese of Detroit is working closely with St. Ignatius Parish and School and looks forward to assisting you with your story. As your inquiry involves legal matters relating to the Cayman Islands, it is to be expected that we would need time to properly develop a response. We will respond fully as soon as possible,” the Archdiocese said on Thursday via email. NPO legal obligations The Compass has obtained a copy of the NPO registrar’s notice issued to school administrators, which points to their continuing failure to adhere to the provisions of the NPO Law. “As per section 15 of the NPO Law, all NPOs are required to file an annual return with the Registrar within six months after the end of the entity’s financial year. There has been no submission of an annual return from your NPO since registration,” the notice stated. It also advised that “controllers can be personally sanctioned for non-compliance with section 15 of the NPO Law”. Under the law, Inniss said, NPOs are required to be registered and submit annual returns and, where applicable, reviews of financial statements. The law also requires NPOs to provide information and access to records to the registrar when being subjected to an inspection. Inniss explained that the penalty for not submitting an annual return is $3,000, with an additional $100 a day fine for each day that the entity fails to comply with this requirement. Another area flagged in the non- compliance notice to the school was the non-notification of administrative changes. Under the NPO Law and regulations, NPOs are required to file with the registrar of NPOs notification of changes within 30 days of the changes taking place, the notice said. “We understand there have been changes to the management structure of the NPO, kindly provide these changes along with the supporting information,” the notice stated. Those changes include the resignation of Alexander, who is set to leave on 11 Nov., the dissolution of the School Advisory Board and the creation of a new School Advisory Committee, which was announced by the administrator of St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Father Naveen D’Souza. St. Ignatius under the microscope Non-profits registrar issues compliance notice, parents demand transparency “We are requesting from the entity the following documents/ information: Copies of bylaws that relates to the governance structure of the NPO to include the PTA and roles and responsibilities of the various committee and committee members.” Non-compliance notice issued to St. Ignatius administrators by the NPO registrar cayman compass 8 news N news FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020BMLMBF>?HK: A>:KMMHA>:KM Discover your Cardiac Risk with our special offer in honour of World Heart Day on Saturday, 3rd October. Early assessment of cardiac risk is a key factor in the prevention of heart attack and stroke. We are celebrating World Heart Day with a Cardiac Risk Assessment Special Offer. Dedicated cardiology experts will be available to discuss your results and help you adjust your lifestyle to improve your long-term heart health. SPECIAL OFFER INCLUDES: • Vitals • Blood Work • CT Calcium Scoring • Cardiology Consult For a discounted cost of US$299 *!,-."2-.&-)-) *!,-."/-)&-)-) healthcitycaymanislands.com TO BOOK YOUR RISK ASSESSMENT APPOINTMENT, EMAIL WORLDHEARTDAY@HEALTHCITY.KY OR CALL 325-7271. Appointments will be offered from 9am to 12pm. Each appointment will take 30 minutes. Two cardiologists available: Dr. Ravi Kishore and Dr. Raghu Prasad. The non-compliance notice also advised that the registrar is authorised to conduct inspections of NPOs to ensure prudent best practices. “In keeping with this authorization, we are requesting from the entity the following documents/information: Copies of bylaws that relates to the governance structure of the NPO to include the PTA and roles and responsibilities of the various committees and committee members,” the notice to St. Ignatius administrators stated. Concerns voiced at meeting Parents raised their concerns about the changes at the school at a meeting on 14 Sept., which was attended by more than 200 parents. In response to parents’ questions, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit Reverend Arturo Cepeda wrote a letter dated 21 Sept. assuring them that their concerns about the administration of the school have been heard and a transition plan for the leadership of the school had been “carefully developed with the support of the Archdiocese of Detroit”. In the petition, the parents, who have formed a Home School Association Parents’ Governance and Transparency Sub- Committee to communicate with the Archdiocese, registered their concerns over the resignation of Alexander, the dissolution of the School Advisory Board and the creation of a School Advisory Committee in its stead. The Mininstry of Education’s involvement with private schools, such as St. Ignatius, is limited in scope. The ministry confirmed to the Compass that it had oversight “of health, safety and education provision at schools. While the Ministry does not have financial oversight, if a school receives funding from the Cayman Islands Government, then the Ministry has in the past requested to see financial records from the relevant schools to ensure the Government’s money is being used as intended and accounted for in the school’s financials.” Given the status of St Ignatius as a registered NPO, the ministry pointed out there are legislative mechanisms in place for oversight. “Through the Registration of Schools, the Ministry and Education Council also expect and check that schools adhere to other relevant legislation, such as Immigration, Health and Pension, etc. For those schools that are registered Non-Profit Organisations, the Non-Profit Organisations Legislation will apply to a school’s financials,” the statement said. St. Ignatius under the microscope ANDREL HARRIS aharris@compassmedia.ky Two government employees accused of defrauding the Health Services Authority of thousands of dollars found themselves on trial in the Grand Court earlier today. Sitting in silence, some 6 feet apart from each other in the dock, Nick Romano Smith and Dominic Fernando Dacres listened as Crown prosecutor Candia James-Malcolm laid out the case against them. “In simple terms, the Crown’s case is that two security officers, Mr. Dacres and Mr. Barnes, repeatedly submitted claims for overtime payments for shifts they had not worked,” James-Malcolm told the jury of five women and two men. Dacres has been charged with a single count of obtaining property by deception. The charge alleges that between 1 Jan. and 31 Dec 2017, he submitted fraudulent overtime forms. Smith, who worked in a supervisory capacity, is alleged to have knowingly signed off on the false overtime claim forms and then passed them onto the HSA’s accounts department for payment. He has been charged with two counts of false accounting and breach of trust. “You will hear that Mr. Smith was a public officer, was trusted by the managers to supervise the team and to effectively manage their attendance, leave and overtime,” James-Malcolm told the jury. “Management trusted that he carry out his duties honestly and with integrity and you will hear that he was given a great deal of autonomy and independence to do so; but that ultimately he went on to exploit this trust by deliberately mismanaging the security team.” Turning her attention to Dacres, James-Malcolm told the jury, “The Crown’s case is that he deliberately and dishonestly obtained property (that is to say, monetary payments for overtime not worked) by submitting false overtime claims.” Both men deny the allegations. The trial continues. HSA security staffers on trial for fraud cayman compass 9 news N news FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020Next >