Outrage grows with speaker’s return to job
(CNS): McKeeva Bush’s decision to return to his job as speaker of the Legislative Assembly while facing charges of assault on a female beach bar manager has fuelled public outrage this week. Meanwhile, Bush has reaffirmed his support for the premier, along with the education and health ministers, who had all been cited as part of a coup attempt by the opposition to bring down the Government of National Unity over the Domestic Partnership Bill.
The return of the veteran politician to his post came as surprise to many, including senior government leaders, and has caused significant public concerns, which has been expressed widely on this site, on social media, the radio waves and in other quarters.
Speaking about Bush’s return to work, Premier Alden McLaughlin told CNS that the West Bay member was the substantive speaker who had been voted into the post by the House and that it was up to the House to decide whether he should remain in the post.
But the premier also pointed out that, given that Bush’s case was still live, it would not be possible for the Legislative Assembly to debate a no-confidence vote in the speaker because of the sub judice rule.
While it is true that Bush was formally elected into his post, his nomination and guaranteed majority vote came about as part of the deal that established the Unity government following the inconclusive election result in 2017 and following a weekend of backroom deals and horsetrading.
Bush had volunteered to take a leave of absence in the wake of his arrest over the assault earlier this year. He spoke about the need to seek counselling to deal with his grief over the loss of his daughter, which had led to alcohol misuse. His return to work has not been marked with any official explanation, though Bush told the Cayman Compass that he had never claimed to be taking an indefinite leave.
“I said I needed to take some time to deal with grief management,” Bush was quoted as saying by the paper.” I did that while still managing my responsibilities as the member for West Bay West and certain responsibilities with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.”
Despite facing serious allegations of violence against a woman in the workplace and expected to face trial in December, the speaker was dismissive.
“So what if there is a trial?” he asked. “Am I not innocent until I’m proven guilty? And if I’m proven guilty, then the House has the recourse if they want to. I don’t know who [would] want to… Justice cannot be decided by social media, the press or public opinion. Justice cannot be decided by hearsay.”
Given the current disquiet in government, even if the frontbench is not yet ready to bring down the administration, Bush has made a clear political point. With the Domestic Partnership Bill creating very clear divisions in Cabinet, McLaughlin is very unlikely to force the speaker’s hand, despite his previous comments that he would not be involved in the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly until the trial is over.
MLA Ezzard Miller, who was the first to raise concerns about the constitutionality of Bush taking leave and still holding the job, told CNS that because of the way the premier had handled this, there was no way to stop Bush’s return to work without a no-confidence vote.
“The premier has told us that the speaker was not going to sit in his substantive position as long as his case in court is pending,” he said. “But now, having allowed him to decide to take leave, there is nothing to stop him from deciding to return. And with the threat of a pending coup to make the opposition leader premier, it is very unlikely that Mr McLaughlin would move the motion of no-confidence in Mr Bush.”
Bush joined Education Minister Juliana O’Connor-Connolly in dismissing their part in the potential opposition coup yesterday. In a brief video statement (see below) the education minister did not deny being playing a part in the coup but claimed to still be part of the government and that, despite voting her conscience on the Domestic Partnership Bill, she still had confidence in the premier.
Health Minister Dwayne Seymour has also denied being part of the opposition plans to bring down the government over the DPB, even though, like O’Connor-Connolly and Bush, he is vehemently opposed to the bill and the governor’s move to implement the legislation under his reserve powers.
Seymour told the Compass that he supported the premier and had the confidence in him to lead the country. He added that he had “no interest in” the no-confidence motion currently being proposed, saying “that makes no sense at all. It is insane to think about something like that.”
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I’m sure the Governor will step in, not a good look for the UK.
Why? The speaker is duly elected.
It should be obvious to anyone with their eye’s open what has happened here. As is the modus operandi, status quo and continued clear and present danger to anything other than the continued success of public and/or private sector malfeasance at the expense of all and sundry, what we have witnessed is just more of the same opaque back room dealing, horsetrading and self interested, disingenuous crap in the furtherance of personal political expediences. The completely undeserved return of William McKeeva Bush to the speaker’s chair, and the ‘interests’ which he is without doubt a shill for, is far more probably than not a direct result and/or ‘pay off’ for backing away from this attempted coup. The puppet masters continue their game of deceit by subterfuge, the elected supposed leadership continue as willing players and pawns and facilitators of an institutionalized corruption while the tree of a widespread and all encompassing culpability bears it’s most poisonous of fruits. There is no ‘good governance’ in and of Cayman, neither within the slated walls of the LA nor within the halls of the FCO. This is the land of rocks, hard places and long drops beneath.
We get it, you have a thesaurus. Would you mind dumbing your comments down for those of us who don’t travel with one? Please and thanks.
2:43, Obviously you must have had a Caymanian public school education and must admire Trump. You should ask for a thesaurus for Xmas. Brighten up yourself.
Simple. Vote them all out and replace them with others who will govern for the people.
To 9:06 ,and there’ll be the same old let me who’s elected ,,,,,complain,,,complain.
Who are these that will govern for the people?
What people will they govern for?
Oh so we can’t debate a motion of no confidence in Bush because Sub Judice rules apply but we can debate Domestic Partnerships despite the case that resulted in the Governors actions now being before the Privy Council ? Alden XXXXX is clearly protecting Mac so he can keep his a Government and power intact.
Sub judice is just a catch-all term for “we don’t want to talk about it” in Cayman. The assembly doesn’t have to wait on the courts to deal with Bush.
Nope. Same-sex marriage is before Privy Council NOT DPB; one is a fight for rights and the other a legal framework. Different issues altogether.
The sub judice excuse is a load of crap.
Firstly, you can’t be held in contempt for things said in the LA.
Secondly, the standards of conduct expected senior MLAs requires not just that they avoid disreputable behaviour but that you avoid the appearance of disreputable behaviour. In other words, being charged with a crime or found in circumstances that look criminal is enough to get the boot.
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We are seeing the extent of Mac’s leverage over other MLAs laid bare. The almost total lack of condemnation from the female MLA’s, the revolting betrayal of his voters by Kenneth Bryan And the total spinelessness of Alden. They are all scared of Mac and he is not answerable to them.
But he is still answerable to us.
Dear CNS,
For the second time recently I see that you have referred to attempts to bring down a sitting government as “coup” attempts. This is erroneous for the following reasons.
A “coup” is a “coup d’etat”. This is an upset of the state, not a democratic process of replacement or realignment of government. The key to whether a change of government is a “coup d’etat” or not is whether a constitutional process is followed or not.
It is one of the constitutional tasks of an Opposition party to make judgments about when an attempt to replace a sitting government with their own members and supporters is feasible or not. That is one of the things that holds governments to constitutional accountability in a democracy. To regard that as a “coup” attempt is actually to demean an important accountability process in a constitutional democracy.
As has already been alluded to, sometimes the best real coups are unnoticed. Such can happen when a constitutional provision is successfully obscured or ignored. Those will be what the best journalists look out for and point out.
Not wrong but pedantic
Nick, this is why so few people understood your articles in Desmond’s Cayman Net News and also why your sermons are considered obscure. It’s like that book you wrote that caused the schism in our Anglican Church in the 80s: incredibly esoteric and irrelevant to 99% or more of those of us in Cayman. We know, trust me, what “coup” means in Cayman. We know it is not the same meaning as in Belarus or Venezuela, perhaps, or countless sub Saharan African countries. We don’t need you to lecture us.
Perhaps someone should inform the Bishop who always seems ready to lecture and talk down to persons, that words like “coup” can be used formally with a standard definition or informally with more casual and nuanced definitions that rely on content clues and comprehension and can be used in almost any circumstance.
In this case coup is quite clearly being used informally and is referring to a sudden upheaval or rearranging of an established system or group. The word “coup” is used in a variety of situations and is certainly not limited to the sudden violent and legally dubious removal of a government in modern English.
Language is often far more flexible than religious dogma which may be where confusion lies for the Learned Bishop.
Though I suppose he could always try to pressure the Government to enforce his views on diction via legal means as well as that seems to be something he enjoys doing.
“In a worldview that acknowledges design and purpose, homosexuality is abnormal so there can be no “right” to homosexual behaviour in the Cayman Islands.”
These words are taken from the following, to which your name is attached:
https://www.caymaniantimes.ky/news/community-voice-defeat-of-domestic-partnership-bill-in-the-cayman-islands
Any position you take on the matter of constitutionality should be evaluated with this “worldview” in mind and if you wish to avoid disingeniousness bordering on hypocrisy, perhaps you should declare your deeply vested interest in the subject.
It seems CBS does not have good journalism. Wait and see how the next article will read decent how Caymanians,are BIGOTS, HATERS, DISCRIMINATORS, and HOMOPHOBIC because they oppose the undemocratic move of the Governor, and uphold moral truths.
Booooring
All please Google First Cayman Bank.
First Caymsn Bank.
All you newcomers dont know how long back we have been making this man do what he want? And come next year WE will vote him back in.
Hi Eugene! You cute thing you! See you next year too. Idiots we are.
I did google First Cayman Bank. Even more interesting were the other articles setting out a catalog of years of unchecked behavior.
What a circus. So embarrassing
Any “Honourable” person in this situation would’ve immediately step down. You know what you did and yet continue to make a mockery of yourself, the people you represent, and these islands as a whole. It also says a lot about the Premier and other MLAs that stood with him and allow him to continue to be apart of this government.
I’m truly ashamed to be Caymanian, knowing these are our representatives!! Too bad people don’t vote for integrity but rather money or whatever else they can get out of these politicians. Smh!
Anon. No way you can be Caymanian.
Jamaica style politics of rewarding the uneducated follower for dem wotes.
Why do caymanians vote these people in? Give the expats the vote and we could easily build a modern society
Many people who voted for these politicians were not Caymanian when they first came here.
Because they like the handouts. People keep saying that governments are corrupt but corrupt people get corrupt governments. If the voters weren’t looking for refrigerators, money, food and other favors from politicians, this wouldn’t happen.
Hell no. McKeeva would have been voted out years ago in West Bay if expats could vote.
Keep McKeeva in a dont ever give expats the vote. I like a turkey and a new refrigerator every few years.
Hang in there McKeeva. West Bay loves you except the expats.
Question: Which countries allow expatriates to vote in National elections? It would make an interesting study to compare those countries with such rights to those that don’t and see which system seems to work better. Let me know if your home country is one, I will be certain to include it in my thesis. I will even interview you for the study if you are willing.
I would also like to say that it is a bit arrogant to assume, as you did in your statement, that expatriates are better qualified to select the Government (just to let it be known, I am not in favour of the current Government in the Cayman Islands).
Lockdown. The only effective way to keep Cayman’s undesirables off the streets.
Boy Mckeever you got stomach to sit in that seat again after all the cussing people putting on you. Mind ya they right you know do it’s time to make that people joyful decision GO
One cannot blame these politicians, but you CAN blame the ignorant voters.
Not really you know. The elections law has no kind of quorum. If EVERYBODY stayed home and refused to vote, the 19 of them could go vote for themselves and still be elected. A law they tailored to suit their own purposes.
The normal protocol for civil servants is that when they have been charged with a crime that they are placed on required leave. It is not a matter of judging them guilty or not. It is based on time-tester protocols and principles.
In fact, I know of at least one case in which someone was placed on required leave without a hearing much less an arrest.
Why are Legislative Assembly Members an exception? The same principle should apply. Is this going to set a precedent?
Bush must remain off work until after the court case. If he is found not guilty then so be it.
Not a civil servant really but there’s no reason he can’t be voted out of the speakership.
Politicians are Public Servants not Civil servants they are not bound by the same rules. However being a politician comes with Honour and if they are truly honourable they Voluntarily remove themselves until they clear their name, if they can’t they never return. That’s how it works but not here apparently.
I am terrified of /the return to power of a UDP renamed party government with attendant vindictive and behind closed doors under table deals.
What about democracy?
8.10….Dictatorship is what I’m scared of, and it will not be of the benevolent variety.
@Don’t worry, we have a regiment.
Let’s see who’s In control of the Lodge now!
Thank goodness the Speaker is so thoroughly, emphatically, perpetually Honourable.
Imagine if he were just some corrupt spiv on the make?
Indeed. Otherwise, we’d be totally screwed.
The premier needs him now more than ever, the judasses are plotting.
Alden is always full of excuses but short on solutions.
I don’t think Mr. Bush “volunteered” to take a leave of absence. I think he just left, and to hell with the consequences.
ANY job, ANY country, any place, that would be grounds for dismissal, and it wouldn’t take months for the employer to reach that conclusion.
IF the government works for us, I want a motion of no confidence brought toward Mr. Bush. Not because of his upcoming court date, but because of his walking off the job. If he had a deal with the Premier, then we need to know about it.
Let’s be honest: this recurring flavour of overt complicit silence doesn’t happen anywhere else. If there were a high school dropout political candidate elsewhere, anywhere close to this dossier of police mug shots and run-ins, they would not have been qualified to become Speaker, or even an MLA representative. Even still, let’s pretend there had been some explicable egregious error in oversight, and later a house vote, that allowed someone like that to ascend to the station – they would have been immediately compelled to resign that post by the house on this revelation, so as not to taint the honour of of the wider membership. No such honourable qualms here, even months later! At the very least, you would hope they’d be compelled to step aside by the Governor or Governor General to answer the very serious criminal charges, on an expedited basis – especially when there is already a penned unsolicited written admission of mental psychosis, physical guilt, and unavoidable culpability. None of these things can hope to be undone or offset by any amount of unverified clinical therapy, or OJ Simpson Miami CCTV expert camera review. It seems everybody that can read, can play this forward in their minds and know how this ends…everyone except McKeeva Bush.
DPB is the biggest problem in the Cayman Islands? What a joke. Where is the public outcry from the haters on the unacceptable actions of our politicians?
This behaviour is a choice. Being gay is not.
Churches, I dare you to organize a rally around the embarrassing and outright potentially dangerous behaviours of our politicians toward us – the peoples of the Cayman Islands. Or are you afraid your collection pots may dwindle?
LGBTQ continue with your hate speech against anyone or any organization not promoting your lifestyle.
As for me I will still love all of you as persons but abhor the general LGBTQI attitude to push your demands down our throats as you promote LGBTQIisms.
Yes, Christianity has given us a foundational moral compass and standard that benefits your people, now you would dash it aside for what foundation to base society.
What would be good behaviour?
What would be bad behaviour?
What would the basis of your value system?
Are you aware that your text reads like a Chihuahua barking?
I wasn’t sure, so I thought I’d mention it.
” still love all of you as persons but abhor the general LGBTQI attitude to push your demands down our throats as you promote LGBTQIisms.
Yes, Christianity has given us a foundational moral compass ”
LOL. My tea is hot right now at 7am, let me have a go.
“You must convert to our denomination of Christianity out of thousands of others or you deserve to be tortured forever” is all I’ve heard from Christians. I’ve never ever forced myself or my orientation onto my straight friends. Unlike you I know my boundaries. If they really want to be in church, they’d show up on Sunday. Or Saturday? Who knows which one is right.
Foundational moral compass? The same one that says if I rape a girl I can pay her dad to marry her and all is well? The same one that was used to justify slavery?
It takes simple common sense to be a good human. If you need a ghost to watch over your every move, maybe the problem is you.
Christians have no moral compass to brag about. Christianity has been the refuge of Evil, widespread paedophelia and abuse. To suggest anyone benefits from religion and superstition is ludicrous.
You love them as people but abhor (aka hate) that they won’t behave exactly how you want them to…. that isn’t actually love. I don’t know what it is but you can keep it.
I never saw any gay people in church, so I agree. follow the money
The sing in church choirs.
And lead the congregations
For alll the good work and goodwill Alden fostered in dealing with this crisis he going to throw it all away on this man? Poor
And that folks proves who is really running this country and it’s not Alden.
The de facto Premier McKeeva
Sure, but who/what stands behind this school leaving muppet, what is that profession that is feared, and what are those resources to compel this breadth of complicit acquiescence? Shall we use our imaginations, or is it enough to witness 30 years of bizarre Jamaican honours, degrees, and the catalog of inappropriate gangland access, for the rest of us to connect the most obvious dots? Where are the lightbulbs in the FCO/Governor corridors? It doesn’t make sense unless it’s part of some bigger, and much more sinister inter-Caribbean conspiracy. Maybe we should all be scared?
This paragraph is very important. Thank you CNS for reminding.
“While it is true that Bush was formally elected into his post, his nomination and guaranteed majority vote came about as part of the deal that established the Unity government following the inconclusive election result in 2017 and following a weekend of backroom deals and horsetrading.”
How else are you gonna do it?
i always wonder what happened to the defamation suit by alden against him? or was that fizzled away in some agreement…
When will we start the protests? Nothing will happen until we do.
@4:11PM I nominate you to publicly organise a protest and circulate the details of the same. Back over to you @4:11pm. We are on standby…
Monday Aug 24th outside the LA building. Back over to you, what will you do?
Sorry I can’t make it. Airport’s still closed.
@12:10 what time on Monday?
☑️persistent antisocial behavior
☑️impaired empathy and remorse
☑️ bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits
And the name for personality disorder characterized by the above traits is…..
Corruption didn’t make your list?
Honored Bush is actually a human with good traits.
Is corruption a mental or personality disorder?
Christian
👍 a good one!
No one will dare speak out against him because he can end any other politicians career on island. Shame. Everyone in the LA loves the Bible and god but they have to morals
He even goes after private citizens and to their bosses
They’re some Caymanian families who don’t give a logwood about that sea urchin
That’s the ideal outcome- they all turn against Mac and he takes them all down with him. While they are wrestling in the mud to protect their expense accounts we can elect some real men and women to lead the country.
career politicians..caymanians…you voted them in…need change in 2021…we need new blood..plus get rida this stupid covid 19
And folks think it’s GAYS that are the problem in Cayman??? Wow. Talk about having your heads buried in the sand of SMB. Politicians like Bush are a worldwide embarrassment for Cayman. How does someone like him keep getting elected, and what does it say about those who keep voting for him??? Cayman can do SO much better.
Could it be they love their “gifts” from him more than anything else? Love is not what makes the world go around…….. it’s GREED!
He does not have one ounce shame. And he has the gall to call himself a Christian. He constantly reminds people of what he has done for them. Forgetting what people have done him, when he had nothing! Loves to verbally attack others.
He has a short convenient memory. He should get down on knees and thank all the West Bayers who voted for giving him for giving him a life of luxury. Otherwise he would probably still a bell boy.
Or is it love for the underdog? The uneducated career politician who has rose up the ranks to run a BOT.
More often than I’d like to believe, many western nations are lead by poloticians with strong narcissistic traits.
Why is that?
I hope Alden is not going to put up with being publicly humiliated like this. You are the leader of the country, are you really going to let a filthly old drunk walk all over you like this? Get rid of him!!!
3.00 Of course he will put up with it. McKeeva knows where ALL the bodies are buried. He’ll have dirt on every single politician on this island. Bush might be an illiterate, boorish oaf but he isn’t stupid.
Please don’t blame the Governor or Premier or any one person for the Speakers actions.
The Governor doesn’t appoint the Speaker. 19 MLA’s appointed the speaker. Its their job and that of the people of West bay to deal with this.
Alden made a deal with mckeeva to form a government, knowing his history, and he is voted speaker of the house. If all 19 members endorsed his position as speaker, then I have to agree that come 2021 they should all be replaced. This was one of the most disgraceful and disrespectful act against the people of these Islands and to the Honourable House itself.
Which other employee is allowed to self diagnose, prescribe treatment and decide when he will return to duty? Caymanians need to make their vote count for past and future generations, instead of giving it away for a 6 pack of 345, a lot of turtle meat or some piece of appliance. Perhaps this calls for a march more so than LGBT rights.
Gov Taylor stood up to him and slapped him down. Needs to happen again and soon.
How much more can we tolerate from this shameless self serving buffoon . He leaves a trail of vindictive and scandalous behavior wherever he goes, whatever he does.
Taylor made a proper fool of himself and ended up getting egg, mud and bubbly all over his face.
2:57, I blame everyone for letting the Speaker continue his dirty work. It seems that money talks in the Cayman Islands…………
Just ask Mr. Dart.
The Governor wields all necessary reserve powers to grab the gavel himself, suspend the LA, and essentially terminate everyone, and anyone, unsuited to their station. A “strong encouragement” is essentially a course correction command from the UK. Our Cayman MLAs disregard past, present, and upcoming, primary school civics lessons at their own peril.
McKeeva Bush has been involved in a lot of gandala-boogy during his life.
In my opinion, he cannot be trusted.
Come on Alden step up
!!!!!!!
After all the things this man has done going as far back as the First Cayman Bank scandal the only real question is why the hell are so many of you surprised? He is, was and always will be like this. Leopards never change their spots.
What about BCCI? Silence is golden!!
How many senior law enforcement officials were granted status by Mac?
5:58pm —- far far too many – and they are corrupted economic immigrants that are bringing us down. The Mass Status Grant was treason and they should all be held accountable.
You mean Jamaicans in general tight ?
I believe senior officials various nationalities were granted status by Mac. Lots of friends in law places.
Yep BCCI . First Cayman Bank
First Cayman bank….he got off scot free! This why he thinks he is invincible.
First Cayman Bank scandal ….. he scared then he bit his nails until the bled!!
He’s our baby Trump. But honestly, I think McKeeva is more intelligent.
Maybe if you pull your head out of your butt you will see the good things Trump does for his country.
maybe if you pull your head out of trump’s butt you will see the damage he is doing to OUR, not his, country.
Like let close to two hundred thousand Americans die of a virus because he refuses to implement national policies
because ‘the virus will be gone by April’ as he said on the 10th of February
Trumptards really are a special kind of stupid
Really stupid for true
4;06pm – 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 THANK YOU!
When America does well, Cayman does well!
Why to bring Trump or Russia into every conversation?
Trump is not a politician, he blurts things out without political correctness of career politicians.
You have also agree mass media bullying has reached unacceptable proportions.
I am politically neutral. Didn’t vote for Trump or Hillary.
#growapairalden
#unitygovtcircus
I met Bush many years ago in a business luncheon. I was actually proud to be in the company of the Premier who was a Caymanian. Everything was going fine until he opened his mouth! I wanted to crawl under the table with embarrassment. Nothing has changed. This is why we are referred to as a Banana Republic. How embarrassing for our islands. Governor we need a hero! Alden just don’t have the balls.
2:10 pm
They all need to grow a pair. You mention embarrassment, it is far worse than that. They are only concerned about LGBTs. None of them will make the bold step to rid us of the international monster that West Bayers keep Voting for.
BTW there are four voting sections in WB and only one “gets to” vote for Mac so please stop generalizing all west bayers….and the affluent areas by kimpton, governors harbour, yacht club etc are all technically west bayers too…WBS
He feels no remorse. What message does he send to community?
Does Cayman have presumptive ceiling for the length of a case in the Cayman Court?
On August 14, 2020,
“Foldats has set another case management hearing for Friday, 21 Aug.
While the magistrate said he would hear the matter in December, he indicated that the trial could be held sooner than that, as it was a tentative date.””
Is it August or December? Today is August 21.
Premier Alden is about to learn (again) and show the world that he is Speaker Big Mac’s #1 trick
This is the most disgusting thing I have heard since hearing about the incident that Mac is going to court for. This makes a laughing stock out of our government for letting it happen. It is amazing that good governance and moral action gets totally set aside when the politicians have to cover their This makes me ashamed to be a Caymanian.
They all hang around.bars to catch a fish. Spanish, Cuban, and and any jelly fish.
They send their drivers and bodyguards to catch the fish..at the bars.
Yet we grin and skin with him like he a god! England cant even touch him.
Mr. SPEEKER you are in charge and we cant do a darn thing about it.
Finally a competent Speaker of the LA bacj in the chair. Godspeed my dear good friend!
1.01pm What did you receive for your vote?.
1:01pm ——— idiot. May God help you.!
What is competent about him?
To 1:01 pm: You full of manure.
Not manure. Vodka, 131 proof. Straight up, I’m fu*c*** wasted.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Heeheee, what a palava!!
Rich puppeteers picked the wrong Prince and Daddy Mac came back!!!!!!! Dollahs gonna run now.
Whoyyy! Whoosah!!!
This is a moment for Alden. Where is his power to stop the reckless, shameful behaviour of Bush?
Alden and Bush pee through the same straw.
Missa Bush you know the time has come for you to seriously not just lo consider an but to get ya asquaresus out of our assembly. Come on man. If you have any sense of pride of decency and moreover respect for the people of these islands you would pack ya bags and leave and go
You have done some good ole fella no denying that, back before you got caught up in the Izims and schisms, but, ya cat lives have run out. Man those who have gone before you are stirring In Their tombs at the disgrace you gave wrought upon the country so many times and on your family, can’t yo feel. Can’t you see that you are no longer the grass roots leader but a puppet of the rich who have gotten more of this country than they have given especially when you were in charge , the concessions you know.
Anyway according to the whispers it probably is better for you to leave now because dat lawyer you had before from the mother country na going to be able to save you if or when a anything major comes up again. Goodbye Missa Bush the door is open.
He is still grieving, what a farce! The liquor must be almost out of him, or he has consumed much more. Onward Christian Speaker.
What a complete and utter joke.
So the recent revelation in Leigh Ritch’s book is also not going to be addressed? Doesn’t mac get it? God help the Cayman Islands.
For size and population, cayman takes the cake for corruption
No it is just quite easy to find out about it.
Just like how everyone thinks Florida’s so crazy, but that’s only because their Sunshine Law makes all government documents, including police reports, public.
Thanks for this information. What crimes involving McKeeva Bush were alleged in the book?
Why would Leigh’s allegations be dealt with when all the very many other allegations – absent the issue of the government credit card, only raised by the FCO when Mac bedded down with the Chinese – have been completely ignored by the government, by RCIPS and by the Governor? Its been going on for donkeys years – Mac does get it; you don’t.
Remember well Aunt Sal ‘s Restaurant.
And I thought the USA gov’t had a corrupt leader…
You haters need to shut up as Honorable Bush is innocent till proven guilty. The problem is all the foreigners who want the gay law pushed down our throat are scared that a real leader like Honorable Bush will shut it down.
Give them Hell Big Mac!!!!
“Honorable”..yeah how bout all the alleged lies about payments for security services that were really just gambling..how about the CHEC deal..how about the Cohen deal with private jet…how about he alleged groping the poor casino worker…and so on and so on. Sounds like you might have a pretty low morality bar
Time for the Governor to step in again……..
He will step in for the 👿🥰
You people are so spiteful. As long as your gay law gets passed that is all you care about. You all are really pitiful.
Please Mr. Bush just do your job!
@ Anonymous 21/08/2020 at 12:13 pm – Troll.
You sound cute…do you have a mustache (I hope I hope I hope)
Shut it down? Gay law, as you call it? This is something new. You do remember Cayman is BOT, don’t you?
How many E T Js are here from across the swamp?
Up yours, 12:13! I hope they rescind his “Honorable” misnomer.
LOL – the irony is that it was Bush who created the whole Honourable for life nonsense.
If he’s honorable then Bill Cosby was a bit handsy!
He is NOT Honorable!!!! you be from West BAY
@12:13: Anyone who perceives that man as “honourable” should re-evaluate their own perception of what honourable means. Enough said.
This could only be news to those who don’t know Cayman.
12.08 No-one, repeat, no-one outside of this island, other than Caymanians around the world, even know who McKeeva is. And they care even less. He is a nonentity and most don’t know where this island is.
You know, I just don’t find that to be true anymore. I went away to school at age 11, I’m now 31, and in that time reactions of people in other countries have gone from ‘you’re from where? where are they?’ or ‘oh the money laundering place’ to ‘ah the Caymans’ or ‘oh right, long way from home aren’t you!’ I can’t remember the last time someone reacted like they’d never heard the name before.
Dear Governor: the Speaker is facing serious criminal charges. He wasn’t on sick or vacation leave!
This is a disgrace! I hope the Governor would again use his powers to stop this one also! Mac needs to step down with salary discontinued to be honest. Why should he be paid and/or trusted with this great responsibility and is allegedly guilty of a crime. If it was any ordinary “Joe Caymanian” we would have been locked down, lost job and everything!
Such a disgusting sorry excuse for a human being.
Big Mac is shameless!
This man demonstrates, yet again, that he has no shame. Literally a national embarrassment.
just another day in wonderland.
and people wonder why expats hold caymanians in such low regard…
Oh because expatriates are so perfect.
The lack of shame from Mac is awe inspiring!
Someone (Alden, Gov etc.) needs to grow a pair and put a stop to this.
He has always just done whatever he wants. He is a narcissistic fool.
Like the Orange Hero to our north.
12.19 He has always just done whatever he has been allowed to do.
Fixed that for you.