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WINDS East to southeast at 10 to 15 knots. 85°F HIGH 75°F LOW Pre-departure COVID-testing and travel authorisation remains a requirement for all arriving stayover passengers, after government extended Cayman’s travel rules until the end of June 2022. - Photo: Alvaro Serey Man arrested after shots fired from car Police arrested a 25-year-old West Bay man, after responding to a report of shots fired from a car on Shedden Road, in George Town, early on Monday, 30 May. Shortly after 1am that morning, the 9-1-1 Communications Centre dispatched officers to a report of shots fired, just west of Printer Way. Police said, “It was reported that persons in a vehicle had brandished a firearm and discharged multiple shots into the air, before driving off in the direction of North Sound Road.” According to a statement issued by the RCIPS later on 30 May, officers subsequently located the vehicle at an address on Miss Daisy Lane, West Bay. A man at that address fled when he was approached by the officers. A second man, who was found near the vehicle, was arrested on suspicion of possession of an unlicensed firearm and remained in custody, police said in the statement. Cayman’s COVID travel rules extended Cabinet has extended the COVID regulations governing travel until the end of next month, according to an update posted on 26 May. The Control of COVID-19 (Travel) (No. 2) Regulations, 2022 stipulate that travellers arriving in Cayman have to provide a negative COVID-19 test “no earlier than the day prior to the departure of the person’s flight to the Islands”. They also require arriving stayover passengers to obtain travel authorisation through the Travel Cayman portal and impose quarantine on certain kinds of unvaccinated travellers. The COVID-19 rules enforcing a mask mandate were also extended earlier in May, but the limit on outdoor public gatherings was removed. There had been suggestions government may start to relax the remaining rules when the current regulations expired at the end of this month, following industry pressure, criticism of the disparity between travellers arriving via air and on board a cruise, and information prematurely posted – and subsequently removed – on the government website, which indicated the Travel Cayman authorisation would no longer be required for returning Caymanians and legal residents. The travel rules had been due to expire on 31 May and will now stay in place until 30 June. Eric Bush to take over as planning ministry’s chief officer Eric Bush is set to take over the reins as chief officer of the Ministry of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure from 7 June, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson has announced. Bush, who is currently the chief officer in the Ministry of Investment, Innovation and Social Development, which is led by Minister André Ebanks, replaces Alan Jones who retired last July after a career of 31 years of service. Bush’s shift in ministries follows a report by the auditor general, which found financial and legislative irregularities in planned funding for Cayman’s overseas offices and the Dubai World Expo - which fell under Bush’s remit at the time, as the chief officer for the Ministry of International Trade, Investment, Aviation and Maritime Affairs. However, Manderson, following an internal investigation instigated after that report, found that no breaches had occurred because the money was ultimately not spent or needed. Tamara Ebanks will take over as acting chief officer in the Ministry of Investment, Innovation and Social Development. She had been seconded to the Ministry of Investment, Innovation and Social Development from her post as deputy chief officer within Ministry of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure, and will continue to advance some of the key projects initiated under Bush’s tenure which commenced in 2019, Manderson said in a statement. Eric Bush will take up the chief officer role in the Ministry of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure, following his tenure as chief officer in the Ministry of Investment, Innovation and Social Development. - Photo: GIS news in brief cayman compass 2 N news THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022NORMA CONNOLLY nconnolly@compassmedia.ky Throughout the Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom, and in Overseas Territories and Commonwealth countries across the globe, celebrations are getting under way to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. As of 3 June 2022, the 96-year- old queen will be the third-longest reigning monarch in the world, having sat on the British throne for 70 years and 117 days. Only King Bhumibol Adulyadej, known as Rama IX, of Thailand, who reigned for 70 years and 126 days, before his death in 2016, and Louis XIV of France, who was king for 72 years and 110 days, until his death in 1715, have served for longer. She is the longest reigning British monarch, having surpassed, on 9 Sept. 2015, the 63-year reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. Elizabeth II, at the age of 25, ascended the throne on 6 Feb. 1952, the day her father King George VI died. Her offi cial coronation took place on 2 June 1953. An estimated 27 million people in the UK, out of a population of 36 million, watched her coronation on BBC television. Here in the Cayman Islands, which the queen has visited twice during her reign, a four-day public holiday weekend is being held to mark the celebrations. While several outdoor events had been planned, such as air shows, fi reworks, beacon lightings, concerts and an offi cial parade, some have now been postponed due to expected inclement weather. Two scheduled air shows – on Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac - which were seeing a return after 20 years, are not going ahead, offi cials confi rmed earlier this week, amid forecasts of heavy rain and lightning. However, even before the weekend gets under way, a number of events have already been held in Cayman in honour of the queen’s seven decades on the throne. In the time-honoured tradition of English tea parties, the National Gallery in the grounds of its building, bedecked by Union fl ag bunting designed by local students, hosted its own tea party last month, where eight fi nalists of the Youth Services Unit’s all-island high school majesty-themed poetry competition were announced. Meanwhile, local bakers took part in a culinary competition to determine whose cake would be featured at the Queen’s Birthday Party at Government House on Monday, 6 June. Home baker Anne Frawley was chosen as the winner for her ‘Cayman Sunshine Cake’. Cayman will also be issuing its own Queen’s Platinum Jubilee stamp this year. In a social media post, Governor Martyn Roper, the queen’s representative in Cayman, said the planning committee that put together the weekend’s events, led by Cabinet Secretary Sam Rose, “has done us proud”. “I am confi dent no other OT has the quality or quantity of events planned as Cayman,” he said. UK events In the UK, unsurprisingly, many celebrations are planned for the jubilee weekend. The long tradition of beacon chains to mark royal events continues across the country, with the main one involving The Tree of Trees (a 70-foot high ‘tree’ constructed of 350 smaller trees), which is due to be lit at Buckingham Palace on Thursday night, 2 June. Thousands of other beacons will be lit by communities, charities and other groups throughout the regions of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories, as well as at all 54 capital cities of the Commonwealth. In Cayman, weather permitting, beacons, or bonfi res, were planned to be lit at Pedro St. James and Cayman Brac. Also in the UK, a ‘Platinum Party at the Palace’, which airs live on the BBC, will feature a night of musical tributes from many famous artists. More than 22,000 people are expected to attend. Street parties have been long associated with celebrating royal events, and more than 60,000 people in the UK have registered to host big jubilee lunches over the weekend, with bunting-laden events ranging from world record attempts for the longest street party to back-garden BBQs and everything in between. Similar lunches are also being planned throughout the Commonwealth. Pageantry always plays a major role in royal events and this year is no different. On Sunday, 5 June, a Platinum Jubilee Pageant will be led by the gold state carriage, which carried the queen from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey on the day of her coronation in 1953. Queen Elizabeth II will not personally travel in the carriage at Sunday’s event (she has previously described travelling in the 260-year-old carriage as a “horrible” experience). Instead, original fi lm footage recorded on Coronation Day, evoking the image of the young queen on that day, will be shown on the carriage windows. As part of the celebrations, the new 73-mile Crossrail railway line in south-east England, which opened on 24 May, was renamed the Elizabeth Line. The queen visited Paddington, one of the stops along the route on 17 May, to unveil a plaque marking the opening of the line, which was completed three- and-a-half years late and £4billion over its budget. The Elizabeth Line stretches from Essex in the east of the country through to Berkshire in the west, and comprises an underground section in central London. Ten new stations have been built for this section, connecting Paddington, Bond Street, Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf. A renaming ceremony in honour of the queen will also be taking place in Australia over the weekend, when on Saturday, 4 May, Aspen Island on Lake Burley Griffi n in Canberra, Australia, will be given its new moniker - Queen Elizabeth II Island. beacon lightings, concerts and an “I am confi dent no other OT has A tea party at the National Gallery was held in May to celebrate the queen's platinum jubilee. - Photo: GIS Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning British monarch, having surpassed on 9 Sept. 2015 the 63-year reign of her great-great- grandmother, Queen Victoria. READ MORE: Queen made two trips to Cayman – Page 16-17 Platinum Jubilee weekend events – Page 26 Platinum Jubilee celebrations happening worldwide NORMA CONNOLLY nconnolly@compassmedia.ky Platinum Jubilee celebrations happening worldwide Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne Celebrating cayman compass 3 news N news THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 20221234567 89 101112 13 1415 16 171819 20 212223 2425 1234567 89 101112 13 1415 16 171819 20 212223 2425 ACROSS 1 Draw level (5,2) 5 Formulate (5) 8 Ineffective (2,2,5) 9 Casual (3) 10 Hard steady work (4) 12 Autocrat (8) 14 Decapitate (6) 15 Edible flatfish (6) 17 Permanently (3,5) 18 Grumble (4) 21 Residue of fire (3) 22 Independently (2,4,3) 24 Unit of weight (5) 25 Melancholy (7) DOWN 1 Thwart (5) 2 Silvery-white metal (3) 3 To cure (4) 4 Unruffled (6) 5 At top speed (4,4) 6 Not too soon (5,4) 7 Ratify (7) 11 With the exception of (5,4) 13 Pay attention (4,4) 14 North American bison (7) 16 Give support to (6) 19 Ultimate (5) 20 Authentic (4) 23 Clumsy stupid person (3) The Compass Crossword Puzzle The Compass universal kakuro Puzzle 17021 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 17021 ACROSS: 1 Catch up, 5 Frame, 8 Of no avail, 9 Odd, 10 Slog, 12 Dictator, 14 Behead, 15 Plaice, 17 For keeps, 18 Beef, 21 Ash, 22 On one’s own, 24 Ounce, 25 Doleful. DOWN: 1 Cross, 2 Tin, 3 Heal, 4 Placid, 5 Full tilt, 6 About time, 7 Endorse, 11 Other than, 13 Take note, 14 Buffalo, 16 Uphold, 19 Final, 20 Real, 23 Oaf. Think traffic is bad now? Imagine rush hour 2036 Time to carpool, people! And bring your lunch to work; lunch traffic is mostly awful. – Sigrid Menschaart Do the people in the eastern districts enjoy commuting or would they prefer to work locally and use a public transport service? The money they save on a car/fuel and what they gain in quality of life and more time with family is priceless, just saying… – Melanie Carmichael Spread our infrastructure, allow for more flexible working arrangements, reduce the number of vehicles allowed per household, enhance public transportation, control the amount of vehicles being exported to the island. – Faith Gealey Been saying for years that government should be moving admin staff to the eastern districts. This would help massively. – Lewis Wilson Improve public transport and implement no-driving day for private vehicles. – Jasmin Kendall Gee Just bite the bullet and start a public transport system run on schedule with a payment system. The government could start by leasing some of these many mothballed tour buses until they bring their fleet online, run the buses alongside the private buses and let the public decide. Lastly, just stop messing around and build a rail transit system. If we can subsidise Cayman Airways, we can afford Cayman rail. – Neil Bodden Have more retail and service businesses open in the evening to reduce the need for everyone to have their own vehicle at work to run most of their errands over the lunch hour. Then car pooling, ferry, can work in the mornings and after work, and some errands can be done in the evenings – similar to most other first-world jurisdictions. – Fiona McDougall Cayman’s COVID travel rules extended Requiring a negative COVID test and proof of vaccination make good sense. But applying for authorization to travel to Travel Cayman is unnecessary and pointless form filling. It achieves no purpose and will only succeed to discouraging tourism. Time to let these people find gainful employment. – Norman Linton I don’t understand. Those of us that hate cruises, and spend more money are penalized. How is it that I would cause someone to get sick any more or less than if I was on a cruse ship? Funny how a person I work with (remotely) got COVID from a cruise ship two weeks ago, and me, flying for work, am healthy. Oh well, maybe we will come back one day. We used to spend three weeks a year in Cayman. – Gara Asala Please, can these be lifted? We need to move on now. – Pauline Lambert Stingrays in plastic pollution campaign Well done, Coral and Jason. Beautiful shot. Great new shirt also. – Tana Kelly Amazing, Jason. Love the stingrays playing footie. Excellent work! – Sally Young Cayman expands Jamaican imports Great idea! Although the most environmentally friendly option is to grow locally. Cayman hasn’t the land space to feed our entire population, though it’s fantastic that more is being grown locally. Importing from Jamaica is a far better choice that shipping these items in from the US. Hopefully, in time, fresh fruit and veg can join the list. – Claire Fletcher Well, thank God someone has became ‘conscious’ and is taking us back to the original stuff we used to get back in the days. Why do we have to change from what we know is healthy stuff to those half-grown junk that tends to turn rotten before you can reach home from the supermarket? This is indeed good news! – Mary Rankine Suddenly there’s a shortage of ackees and plantains? Every Caymanian should have these in their backyard ready to harvest. It’s no secret that home grown is 100% better. – Carol Braggs pic of the week The former Stake Bay Baptist Church at Stake Bay in Cayman Brac is bathed in evening light under a dramatic sky. - Photo: Sean Smith Photography What they’re saying Online cayman compass 4 news N news THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022cayman compass 5 THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022NORMA CONNOLLY nconnolly@compassmedia.ky Members of the Public Accounts Committee have questioned Customs and Border Control officials on how a project to modernise the department’s IT system went from an estimated budget of $277,000 to $1.4 million – a cost overrun of 400%. The discrepancy was highlighted in an report by the Office of the Auditor General earlier this year. Auditor General Sue Winspear, in the February 2022 report, noted that the completion date of the project had changed, from the second quarter of 2021 to December 2022. Her report was a follow-up to past recommendations made by the Public Accounts Committee. Collector of Customs Charles Clifford, appearing before the committee at its meeting on Wednesday, 27 May, explained that the $1.1 million increase in the cost of the project was due to vastly expanded expectations of the system, following the merger of the Customs Department and the Immigration Department in January 2019. This meant the IT system now had to deal not just with customs-related matters, like import duty tariffs, but also with immigration-related elements, such as landing and entry components, he said. The new CBC also took on the responsibility of the Sister Islands customs and immigration elements, which previously had been the remit of District Administration, he explained. Another challenge was transitioning from Customs’ problematic legacy IT platform, the Total Revenue Integrated Processing System, known as TRIPS, to a more stable reliable system, he said. The initial $277,000 budget was envisioned as covering the costs of bridging the way from the TRIPS system, which Clifford said was “constantly crashing” and had a number of “vulnerabilities from a security point of view”, to a new Customs Information Management System, known as CIMS. He explained, “This project is significantly different today than how it started.” Clifford told the committee that he expected the IT modernisation project would be mostly completed by the end of this year. Both he and the chief officer of the Ministry of Border Control and Labour Wesley Howell acknowledged that, if they’d had the time and ability to plan better, there would have been a project manager for modernising the IT system in place from the beginning. Howell said there had been no business case drawn up in relation to the IT modernisation project, but that CBC had now been asked to provide one for the 2022-23 budget. “If we were able to rewind the clock and go back to the days when Customs started their work, if [a business plan] was done, I don’t think we’d be discussing cost overruns,” he said, “because we would have been able to proportion the project in such a way that it had a finite start and a finite end and finite deliverables. … “It evolved over the years and took on more capacity and more development in different areas that were not initially envisioned in the original cost.” Working efficiently now He added, “Our work now is to ensure we can document properly and be able to ensure we’re getting value for money.” He said, in hindsight, the project should have been broken down into separate sections, with individual budgets. Howell added that the customs tariff IT system was now working far more efficiently than previously. The auditor general, in her report, had also noted that, despite an undertaking by CBC that a project manager would be recruited to oversee the IT modernisation of the department, no one had been hired for that post, as of February. Despite stating that it had planned to hire a project manager in 2019, as of 27 May this year, the department still had no project manager in place. However, Clifford told the PAC that “significant progress” was being made in recruiting a manager, not just for the IT modernisation project, but for other projects within the department. He told the committee, “While we had hoped to achieve this a lot earlier, it’s important to point out we did not have a budget for that until this budget cycle.” Customs IT system cost 400% more than forecast Collector of Customs appearing before the Public Accounts Committee on 27 May. - Photo: Screengrab from CIGTV $1.4 MILLION The cost of upgrading CBC’s IT system “This project is significantly different today than how it started.” Charles Clifford, Collector of Customs cayman compass 6 news N news THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022Aetna, Cayman First, CG BritCay, CINICO and Pan American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) include Baptist Health in their insurance plans. In addition to the above insurance carriers, BAF Insurance and Vanguard Risk Solutions are accepted locally at Baptist Health PET & CT Imaging Center in Grand Cayman. For more information or to schedule an appointment contact: BaptistHealth.ky 345-749-3304 BHICayman@BaptistHealth.net What matters most is your health. Be proactive about it. RESHMA RAGOONATH rragoonath@compassmedia.ky Friends of Kenyan national Anwar Ali Bakari Abdurrahman say they are still coming to terms with his death last week in a fatal collision on West Bay Road. Hellen Mathenge, a friend of Abdurrahman’s, told the Cayman Compass Tuesday that his friends and family are in shock over the sudden death of the father-of-three, who worked as a loss prevention officer at The Ritz-Carlton. Abdurrahman, 41, was killed in a collision involving his car, a Honda Civic, and a Hyundai Santa Fe, outside The Ritz-Carlton Residences on 26 May. The driver of the Hyundai, a 24-year-old man from West Bay, was arrested for DUI. Mathenge said Abdurrahman was a devout Muslim, who was quick to render assistance to anyone in need. “He was a quiet person, softly spoken, very friendly, very helpful. For many friends and house-mates that he’s lived with in Cayman, they all say he was very considerate and very loving, and always willing to lend a hand whenever someone was struggling or whenever someone was facing some personal challenges. He was just a very kind person, and it probably stems from his religion,” Mathenge said. Abdurrahman came to Cayman about four years ago to support his family and elderly parents back in Kenya. His three children are actually his nephews and niece; he became their legal guardian following his sister’s death some years back, Mathenge said. “He has been the sole breadwinner for the family and his ailing mum,” she added. Although he was far from home, Mathenge said, he continued to practise his religion in Cayman. “He was very kind and very nice and warm at the mosque too,” she added. As news of Abdurrahman’s death spread, those who knew and loved him rallied around his family to contribute to a GoFundMe started in his memory. Abdurrahman’s friend, Charles Njuguna, started the fundraiser with a goal of raising US$20,000 (CI$16,400) to cover funeral expenses, as well as to assist Abdurrahman’s family. Three days after the GoFundMe started, US$15,127 had already been raised. Mathenge said the response from the community has been “amazing”. Initially, she said, they set up a WhatsApp group to help generate funds for the bereaved family, but Njuguna expanded their efforts using GoFundMe. “We were pleasantly shocked and happy to see what’s going on. There’s a bill of approximately CI$8,500, so the goal that we have actually now clearly surpasses the bill that we have here,” she said, adding that any additional funds will be sent to his family back home. Mathenge urged drivers to be considerate on Cayman’s roads, lamenting “there are consequences… and some of them are tragic”. Abdurrahman was the eighth person to die on Cayman’s roads since the start of the year. Those who either worked with or knew Abdurrahman have taken to social media to express their sadness over his death, describing him as a “kind and true gentleman”. On the Compass Facebook page, commenters have reflected on Abdurrahman’s character as they sent their prayers to the family. Evan Pyle, in a comment, said, “I remember the times when I would see Ali, always a smile on his face. I saw him at Foster’s and his face brightened up in joy to see me, we had a quick chat while at the grocery store, I’m sad to think it’s the last time we spoke.” Friends pay tribute to father killed in crash Anwar Ali Bakari Abdurrahman cayman compass 7 news N news THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2022Next >