Mac arrested outside US casino
McKeeva Bush’s mugshot in Florida
(CNS): The speaker of the Legislative Assembly and former premier of the Cayman Islands, McKeeva Bush, was arrested in Florida, Monday outside a casino. Bush was reportedly released on a $1,000 bond after he was taken into custody over an altercation with a member of staff. The Seminole police record states he was arrested on suspicion of touch or strike/battery, a misdemeanor charge, in relation to the argument.
CNS has contacted Bush, who we understand remains in the United States, but we have not received a response and we have been unable to confirm any of the rumours about the incident relating to his arrest that have been circulating on social media.
Bush not only holds one of the most senior official posts in Cayman as the parliament’s speaker but he is also a key member of the PPM-led coalition government. CNS has also reached out to Premier Alden McLaughlin, whose government depends on the support of Bush and his two CDP members to hold a majority, but we have not yet received a reply from him or any statement from his office .
Category: Crime
Let me guess, the “nicely” dressed staff at the Hard Rock Casino wasn’t impressed by our politician. In there you’re not a “high roller”, that’s not the Havana Club on West Bay Road. Those things may work in Honduras, Cuba and even in your own country but not in the US…How embarrassing.
“The crime of Simple Battery or Misdemeanor Battery is defined under Section 784.03, Florida Statutes. In Florida, the term battery means: Any actual and intentional touching or striking of another person against that person’s will (non-consensual), or. The intentional causing of bodily harm to another person”
Brilliant photo but seen it before; on Ten most Wanted.
Check the Compass. He allegedly pulled a female casino employee towards him and groped her backside. Say they have it on CCTV.
West Bay, you can do better than this!!!
I had the opportunity the become Caymanian. Glad i didn’t, what an embarrassment for the Caymanians.
Can’t wait for independence.
So let me get this straight. You say that Mac has embarrassed the country, okay. But he is one of the same politicians that would lead the country into independence. and you want it?
So this is really what “foo foo” means…..wonder if he took advantage of free Cayman Airways flights and gov credit card again.
As part of the Unity Government deal my understanding was that the PPM had promised to give Mac a knighthood. Will they still fulfill that promise?
Many UK OBE’s and CBE’s are known racists and convicted pedophiles – so Mac is probably still too good for that club.
Just saying…
The premier will probably deal with this as lame as he dealt with ear horn.
Let’s see how this will be dealt with. When Big Mac had his other fries we all held them guilty by association. Now in the interest of politics he is a part of the Unity Government with the PPM, birds of a feather.
err nice try but he is not a part of the PPM and is not a member of the Government. On the other hand if the “Independents” had all supported him as Premier well they and Cayman would have had a bigger problem…
Flock together
Didn’t he get investigated for using a Government credit card at Casinos before? Clearly he has a gambling issue.
Mac look good in his Lil photo shoot…
This man is a gambling addict and if found guilty of assault shoud be removed from office.
I’m no fan, but surely innocent until proven guilty?
Having said that, it sounds entirely plausible, taking place outside a casino….the last casino incident – which a jury determined was not criminal – should nonetheless have made him unelectable.
Thankfully less embarrassing for Cayman these days given the behaviour of the leader of the free world.
He was arrested outside the casino. It didn’t say he committed the crime outside.
I thought countries couldn’t arrest foreign diplomats.
Diplomatic immunity only applies to accredited officials of a recognised country. As Cayman isn’t a member of the Vienna Convention – not sufe it can be as it is not a UN member – it doesn’t apply.
God is so good. She never sleeps.
jesus will save him…or is that hey-soos?
must be good for about 5 years paid leave
He mek im draw bad cyard?
The pain in his facial expression says it all
Must have gone off the Reservation
No, there is no gambling off the reservations in Florida. Want some cheap smokes or booze, go there. Crazy low prices cause no taxes, since the white man stole everything from them they get a pass on the tax laws. Nice gig if you can get it. I worked with a girl who was a tiny part Native American when I lived in the states, and she was whiter than the GOP, but got free tuition and sold smokes for a huge profit.
The fall of the Big Mac empire. Glorious times.
A real disgrace. The man don’t learn. Please get him of the house. He now needs to attend gamblers anonymous and issue the country an apology. Makes Cayman look …. real bad. Shameful and disgraceful. Maybe you should read your own christian post Mac and apply to your own life!!!
It is okay, because he plays gospel music at his rallies, so he must be pious.
I find it mind boggling that there are people who vote him in office again and again.
He needs to be put to pasture along with Julie.
And Moses and Alden and Arden
Mac obviously need profesional minders to keep him in line not these yagga boos i see him with. Clearly his current minder needs to be terminated immediatley and this very messy and embarassing situation could have been avoided.
Glad i voted against him 🙂
Me too! Hahaha only a a fool would vote for him.
Lots of fools in West Bay then
Nuff fools did…
Well, you know who he like to emulate.
Class act
Clean hands and pure heart, will be in church singing on Sunday morning
Carrots and milk!
It’s the expats fault.
i miss the LOL button
Me, too. (On the advice of my therapist I threatened to sue CNS but it still didn’t make no difference. But I remain hopeful that Wendy and Nicky will come to their senses and reinstate it before too long.)
CNS: We miss the LOL and Troll buttons too, but several attempts to add them to a WordPress site created problems. (It works on the less used sites.) We’ll try again when we’ve got a few other things out of the way.
Nice try troll…why not go troll back in your country loser
And yet you responded.
Arrest is not conviction….. not yet.
He should have worn his Speaker’s wig. That would have kept him out of trounle. Made his mug shot better too.
Ma hans is clean, bo bo.
And now the fake news…
In a brief statement released by his office late yesterday, Mr. Bush admitted that he had made “a serious mistake.”
“I apologize to everyone, including my family, my colleagues and the people of The Cayman Islands.
These words will never be spoken.
Big test for Alden and Co. Should be a straightforward decision but in politics expediency invariably trumps principles.
Well they kind of set a precedent already with Kenneth (which I thought was unnecessary and harsh). The decision here should be a simple one. But as we all know Mac seems to get away with everything, and it just seems to make his attitude and sense of entitlement worse.
How embarrassing for the country.
Makes you wonder how many more times he is going to embarrass the country before someone does something about it and STOP VOTING HIM BACK IN!
Says a lot about the ethics and morals of those that vote for him…
No, it says a lot about the intellect of his voters. They are so ignorant they don’t see through his bull shit.
This week on RPC (The Real Premiers of Cayman) …
Where’s TMZ when you need ’em?
– Who
WOW, it seems bush is hell bent on embarrassing this country by whatever means he can, no self pride, no self respect, no education. Can we not just burn his passport please.
Still remains and forever will be ‘Honourable’
Yes as Antony ( no not Eden) said about Brutus. That said they are indeed birds of a feather and two in de bush.
Teflon Don strikes again
OMG!
Can we please get him off the government payroll? Surely this is grounds to have him removed from office. What a national embarrassment.
“Let he who is without Sin cast the first stone”
Regardless of what he may (or may not) have done, this man has reached out and helped untold numbers or persons when they were in need, and now instead of us reaching out to help him, we want to throw him under the bus?
Shame on us all!
What happened to our Christian values?
I’m not religious so don’t hit me with those pathetic bible verses ?
True richand some of these women would get a divorce if they see what their husbands are out doing while they are at home. It is better not to say anything at all condemning.
They were there the last time he was arrested and given a second chance. Where are HIS morals?
Count the thumbs down dummy. Does that answer your question. ?
Don’t kid yourself 5:28, the only person KeKe ever helped was himself.
Ok I get the innocent till proven guilty arguments of others but your “don’t Judge” flim flam Wadd is what is truly shameful!
Christian values don’t care about women rights.
1 Timothy 2:12New International Version (NIV)
12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[a] she must be quiet.
Bush might have been able to get away with whatever it was he allegedly did if the Bible was the standard of which we base our laws and morality off of. Think about that especially if you consider yourself a “Christian”.
You keep reading that “New International Version”.
I prefer the King James Version, always.
I would like to add that just because a heathen goes to church professing to be a Christian doesn’t mean there are no real Christians in this world.
“….reaching out to help him”. The help he really needs is from a much higher power.
To say the least. A disgrace to the regiment. Until we start electing smart educated individuals, what else can you expect.
Hard to vote for smart educated individuals when there are so very few actually running for office.
Well, Marco and Wayne were good folk. Look what happened there….
I wonder if he asked them “Do you know who I am?” And I wonder if they care?
Take ya licks boy!! ??
Free OJ, free C-Murder and free Mckeeva!!
Free Foots!
Free Steve!
Arent you a little old to be commiting crimes.
yep… and people still think expats shouldn’t be allowed vote…..
cayman deserves what it gets.
Nah, our expats aka immigrants come from western countries where their leaders commit war crimes – not petty stuff like (alleged / suspected) drunken casino bar fights.
Let’s not get carried away now please.
– Who
Don’t kid yourself Who , the clowns you and yours wote in would commit far worse crimes if given the opportunity ….they don’t lack the intention just the means . The one time a caymanian was given any kind of real power was Jeff Webb , true to form he showed just how corrupt you can truly be when given the opportunity
Woulda, coulda, shoulda … is that really where we’re at now?
I didn’t have to speculate like you did – I simply referred to cold hard facts.
Jus sayin…
And Cayman isn’t in the west? You idiot.
They say money runs the the world but, war runs the money.
And we still know expatriates shouldn’t be allowed to vote
And this has what to do with Exapts voting?!!! Please. Stop pushing an agenda that will NEVER happen.
In what country are non-citizens allowed to vote? Shut up and leave already
In the Scottish Referendum
in what so called democracy do 50% of the population have no voting rights or have no representation?????
btw thats the 50% of the population that run the economy!
also i’m PR….so i’ll leave when when i choose!
‘Shut up and leave already ‘… I believe that came second behind ‘ caymankind’ in the DOT slogan contest !
This would be hilarious if it weren’t so embarrassing!
Foots for Speaker!!!!
Free Foots!
Can he use his government credit card to pay the bail money!
It depends if there is any space left after all the night activity.
#FREEBIGMAC✊?
Oh boy
…yawn…
What a shame that one of our own dignitaries conducts himself in such a manner in a foreign country and gets arrested. And I was taught from young that when you leave your yard, you represent where you come from. Talk about setting an example…
The reaction and statement will be the example for a generation to follow.
First in a wig, then a cell.
Is this year the fall of Big Mac? Only time will tell.
Do you really need any more proof?