EDITORIAL

Conflicts Of Interest With Status Grants

Monday, May 3, 2004

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Reader comments:

• Thank you, Mr Seales, for bringing this to the attention of the Caymanian public. I fear there are many serious and far reaching implications in the Government’s ill-considered grants of status that have not yet begun to materialise yet. It speaks volumes about the incompetence of all concerned in the Government’s decision-making process that these conflicts were not foreseen. But, there again, it now seems obvious that the Government cannot even run a beauty contest successfully, let alone a country! – Anonymous
  
   
• The fact that these people cast votes for issuing statuses for themselves should be enough to challenge the criteria that government used to remove the immigration from their jobs of overseeing this process. Furthermore these people should not have the power to decide who gets statuses anyway, they are visitors to Cayman themselves. Cayman has slipped so far down, that they can't even decide who can stay, or not stay in their own country. It’s a disgrace! Every Caymanian should hold their heads in shame at the willful dereliction of duty. These positions and also EXCO should only be held by Caymanians. CBA has no choice they should and must challenge the whole process - Derrick Powell
  
   
• Congratulations to Cayman Net News for its excellent editorial of Monday 3rd May - “Conflict of Interest with Status Grants” - which expressed so well many of the concerns of patriotic Caymanians; concerns, not just in connection with these 2,850 grants of status by Cabinet, but with Cayman’s system of justice in general.
  
  Recently the public’s perception of how our system of justice appears to operate at times has caused many to question whether or not certain matters have been dealt with in an impartial and unbiased manner. In light of so many of our judiciary being the recipients of Cabinet grants, unfortunately, this perception can only continue.
  
  Caymanians therefore feel that it is incumbent on His Excellency the Governor to see to the appointment of an independent panel of judges to deal with this most important national issue, the likes of which has never touched the soil of these Cayman Islands.
  
  The courageous members of the Caymanian Bar Association and the Caymanian people deserve no less.
  
  In addition, His Excellency the Governor should ensure that this matter is dealt with by the Courts without delay. Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done! - Concerned Citizens of the Cayman Islands

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