PACT releases security meeting round-up
(CNS): The PACT Government has released a short summary of the issues discussed at the most recent National Security Council (NSC) meeting. While it is a very brief description of what happened, it is the first time any official information has been released about the NSC, which meets behind closed doors. The constitutional body is chaired by the Governor Martyn Roper, who said the summary reflected activity at the meeting on Tuesday, 21 September, as he commended the current administration’s move towards increased equity and transparency.
“I welcome the Government’s support for publishing summaries of NSC meetings,” he said. “National security is a topic that touches closely on all our daily lives. It is appropriate that Caymanians and residents should be able to visit the Government website and inform themselves about the latest developments in this critical area. They are better able to track how closely the concerns of the NSC mirror their own, and provide us with feedback where needed.”
The summary outlines four items discussed at the meeting. These included a security briefing from Police Commissioner Derek Byrne on topics including crime statistics and updates on efforts to address illegal firearms, as well as a briefing from Customs and Border Control Director Charles Clifford on CBC collaboration with the RCIPS.
The members considered a paper on the adverse socioeconomic and crime impacts of illegal gambling in the Cayman Islands, the summary said. They also considered a progress report on the implementation of the national cyber security and an independent review of CIG’s network security by the UK Home Office.
Going forward, the Cabinet Office will publish a summary of the decisions taken at National Security Council meetings on the day following the meeting. This will be posted on the government website alongside the Cabinet summaries that are now also being regularly released.
Premier Wayne Panton said his government remains committed to increasing transparency around its decisions and encouraged the people of the Cayman Islands to use the new measure to gain a greater understanding about the NSC and its work.
See the current membership of the NSC and the post-meeting notes in the CNS Library
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Not a face mask in sight.
But they are 6 feet apart, right?
I though security meetings were suppose to be secured. The public do not need to know about this. Go down to CUC, fix the f@#$ing traffic problem, try to reduce the cost of living, this is what we need to know.
Did they discuss how four Cubans managed to slip by our Coast Guard?
Does anyone care?
So they’ll release this to great fanfare and just slip out the latest Covid rules quietly overnight?
When you think it cannot be more ridiculous than already is, face masks regulation takes it to a new level, especially “Scuba diving and snorkeling” part 🤯🤦♂️. “ The vendor also shall not rent the same shared scuba equipment to another customer until three days has elapsed.”
Exemptions are mind boggling as well.
“ Exemptions listed in the regulations also include those sitting, or eating without talking at a person’s desk at the person’s place of employment, or at the person’s desk or table at an educational institution, or for those indoors at a bar or restaurant sitting at a table.”.
Hmmmm “sitting or eating without talking “…who is going to monitor that?
I wonder who came up with 3 days quarantine on scuba equipment? This must be a new discovery in the scientific world. Why not to impose 3 days quarantine on plates and spoons at a restaurants? How about hotel bedding and towels?
Lastly, I can sit and work and eat with someone at the same desk, as long as I am not talking? I wonder would they install cameras facing every desk and table on island?
Nothing to see here literally, this is transparency? Really?
Woo hoo! I’m feeling safe now! You all are such jokers!
Just ignore the endemic corruption, besides what harm can it do if allowed to perpetuate with impunity?
The constitution mandates who should be on the NSC. It looks to me from the photo that there’s nobody on it who should be on it and plenty who shouldn’t.
Comments, Mr AG?
CNS: There is a link at the bottom of the article to the current membership of the NSC, which is inline with the constitution. Other people you see in the picture appeared to be invited to give input.
7:46 you missed the point that Cayman is the safest place on the planet.
Praise all those in the picture who keep us safe.
Stop clouding an issue that is clear.
Literally nothing is contained in this document
What do you expect? It is National Security.
Not a nation.
Close enough………. and it’s all we got.
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