Cops worry paydays fuel boozed-up crashes
(CNS): The RCIPS pressed home the message not to drink and drive ahead of the last weekend of the month, which means that Friday is payday for many people. The police are concerned this will fuel more road crashes and are warning people not to get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol. They also reminded bar staff to pay attention to the state of their customers.
“Over the last few months we have seen an increase in the number of traffic collisions during the last weekend of each month, which may coincide with paydays for many persons on island,” said Acting Superintendent Brad Ebanks. “Many DUI arrests are made as a result of traffic collisions. However, as we step up our proactive DUI detection strategy, the number of persons stopped and arrested while driving drunk has also increased.”
He said staff at liquor licensed premises should be aware of the state of the patrons they are serving. “It is within your power to refuse to continue serving persons who are showing obvious signs of being highly intoxicated,” Ebanks said. “We are grateful to the establishments that already do this as a matter of policy, and encourage all liquor licensed establishments to consider doing the same.”
Inspector Andre Tahal of the Traffic and Roads Policing Unit, whose teams are dealing with hundreds of collisions every month, said drinking and driving is common across all demographics.
“We want to be clear that this is not an issue that is restricted to one particular group of people,” he said. “The consequences of choosing to drive while under the influence are equally dangerous regardless of who it is that makes the choice. We are reiterating our reminder: If you drink, you must have an alternative means of transport… Plan to take a taxi or have a designated driver. Never drink and drive.”
The current legal blood-alcohol limit in the Cayman Islands is 0.1%. If you are tested and found to have a blood-alcohol content at or exceeding this amount you will be subject to arrest. Upon conviction, you are liable to a fine of $1,000 and will lose your driver’s licence for a minimum of twelve months. The penalties increase if you have previous DUI convictions.
The government is planning on lowering the legal limit and will be bringing an amendment to the traffic act next month to cut it down to 0.07%.
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Did the RCIPs commission a Consultant Report for this?
The Darwin Award goes to…
Good grief! In English please! Back to school for you!
The pay day correlation is even stronger for drugs/drug dealers and murder nights, but even with that data, the RCIPS still won’t attend the deadliest clubs at closing. Baffling.
Cayman would need to wait until a CMO is hired to weigh-in on whether the sun causes sun-burns.
Brad, tell us who’s being held accountable for the latest K9 death!!
Good question. Let’s see what the outcome will be.
No one. They don’t rat on their own.
I don’t think the cops worry about anything. I saw with my own eyes a dirt bike rider on the LP highway unlicensed and no helmet overtaken by a police vehicle, thinking he would be pulled over but the police car just continued on.
They are not permitted to get into high speed pursuits with bikes
Why is the RCIPS not railing against the fact that government has not come up with any plan to get drunks home safely and conveniently? Besides exorbitantly costly price-regulated taxis, or imposing on a friend or family, there is no convenient way–other than taking the chance and driving their own vehicles–for drunks to get home. Assuming that all Caymanian bar drinkers suddenly became impeccably responsible when over the limit and called for a taxi, I seriously doubt that there are enough regular taxis in the Cayman Islands to provide transportation to everyone whose blood alcohol content is above .07 on a party-oriented weekend. Even if there was a sufficient number of taxi services, I also doubt that a sufficient number of taxi drivers are willing to be on call in the wee hours. One solution is to have a special Safe Ride Home Provider license (and an add-on for existing taxi drivers) for people to provide a ride home service for bar patrons. The fare would not be subject to any government price-fixing. Each ride provider establishes their own rates for each ride, which would be negotiated before they pick up the drunk. To go with that plan, Government could sponsor creation of a Safe Ride Home app for smartphones.
I’m saddened at all the posts trying to simply further enable irresponsibility. I get the notion of getting drunks home safely for both their health and those they may injure or kill, but isn’t the real issue that they are DRUNK? Most addicts have enablers. Simply drink responsibly, stay under your legal limit and drive home. We don’t need Gov’t funded ‘Drunk-Mobiles.’
8:23…
“Simply drink responsibly, stay under your legal limit and drive home.”
Perhaps that’s what all the DUI’s are already doing….
FYI, for a DUI you need not be 2 sheets to the wind….you could have 3 beers depending on your body and be over the limit……
What a comment; take a bow.
Did you have anything to do with the title in the press release?
I agree that people should be more responsible in all aspects of life; however, the notion of all drinkers suddenly arriving at the Nirvana of being totally responsible is a fantasy held by people who likely also believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin. According to the statistics from the U.S. CDC, 85 percent of DUI incidents involve binge drinkers. Statistics also point out that 90 percent of people who admit to binge drinking are not alcohol dependent or alcoholics. Thus, your reference to enabling “addiction” is very minimally relevant in light of the statistics.
The very active and passionate anti-drink-driving activist group Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) have espoused the idea that rideshare apps are a very good option to prevent drunk driving. That is why MADD has partnered with both Uber and Lyft to help advance and encourage safe, non-drinking options such as ridesharing.
Research by the University of Texas (UT) analysing more than 24 million rides, found that after ridesharing came to Houston: Trauma related to motor vehicle accidents fell by 23.8 percent for all ages on Friday and Saturday nights and 38.9 percent for those under 30 years of age. DUI arrests decreased, particularly on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, concluded that ridesharing reduced alcohol-related traffic fatalities across the U.S. by 6.1 percent
Another analysis showed that each of the New York City boroughs that experienced significant rideshare service coverage (Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens) also experienced a 25-35% decrease in its alcohol-related collision rate.
The entry of two rideshare services into markets in California between 2009 and 2014, correlated with a significant drop in the rate of drink-driving-related vehicular homicides.
Many many other studies and ample data confirm what MADD has believed for years: rideshare programmes and apps offer a convenient transportation option that help reduce the risk of drunk driving crashes, and they save lives.
Cayman does not yet have Uber or Lyft, but, between government and private sector partners, we do have the resources to implement a local Safe Ride Home programme and app that is separate from the taxi service system.
Come Christmas, while you are leaving cookies out for Santa, drinkers are being irresponsible and drinking too much, and many will drive home drunk. Rational adults and MADD have the knowledge that it is a good thing for over-the-limit drinkers to have a convenient option to get home other than driving drunk, and we know that programmes providing ways for tipsy tipplers to get a safe ride home reduce drink driving incidents and save lives.
Why should the responsible adults have to pick up the transportation slack for the drunk idiots who know before they wake up that morning how the evening will end? Problem drinking has costs, and the taxi fee is the least of those. Imagine if Cayman’s employers fired the low productivity employees who are problem drinkers, like they do in the rest of the world? Might save lives.
@12:40:
What is a “problem drinker”?
You use a term which does not seem to have a fairly widely accepted definition. It is a myth that impaired driving in the U.S. is more prevalent among the less successful in society. Researchers used data from the 2002–2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, undertook to identify populations at elevated risks of alcohol-involved driving.
What they discovered was surprising to many: those with higher socioeconomic status or “SES, (i.e., household income of $75,000+ and college education or above) reported the highest prevalence in drunk driving and showed the smallest percent decline over the last decade compared to lower SES groups. A visit to any 7 Mile Beach happy hour will allow you to see how many patrons arrive in a tie or nice outfits, sport expensive watches, and drive off (impaired) in an upscale vehicle. In the USA, and Cayman, most drink drivers are likely not “low-productivity workers”.
To fire an employee, employers must have proper cause that has to do with their job performance. As long as they do not drink on the job or show up impaired, and if they can get to work on time even if they lost their licence to a DUI, and as long as professional driving is not part of their job, one cannot dismiss a person for being a habitual drink driver.
Back to the issue of safe ride services, the cost would be covered by the rider and no one is picking up any slack for them as you benightedly suggest. Government could recoup the comparatively very minimal cost of developing and maintaining the app via licensing fees. Better yet, matching revenue to expenses, apply part of the exorbitant duty on alcohol to programme development. Government makes money off alcohol, so government should spend some of that money on mitigating the effects of alcohol on the public. You mention saving lives as if it was a worthy cause, but in your blindness you reject a simple and proven way to help save lives. Safe ride programmes work.
Flex app exists. Taxis exist. Water and sodas exist. A lack of alternative transport or drinks aren’t the problems. The problem is the scheduling and planning of premeditated drunk driving.
@2:21:
I shall agree that irresponsible drinking is the second-tier root of the problem. The prime root of the problem is that a drug as dangerous as alcohol is even legal. If you truly want to lessen the problem of drink driving, eliminate easy access to alcohol. The reality is that alcohol will always be with us. And we must come to accept the truth: there is no magic wand will make all of the drinking public immaculately responsible. Try as you might you cannot overcome the compelling research and quantity of data indicating that convenient access to alternative safe ride services decreases incidents of impaired driving, reduces accidents, and saves lives. Most people who drink do not go out with the set intention to drive home drunk. Once impaired, there are few choices, Access to convenient ride services lowers the odds that impaired people end up behind the wheel. MADD and I kinda like the idea of a simple solution that can save lives and limbs even if you do not.
As a country, we need to have an open, honest look at what are the roots causes for excessive drinking and related behaviors that result in the madness on Caymans roads! The daily stresses, having to work so hard and a significant amount of one’s earnings go to bills, mental health issues, home life stresses are all contributors to such excessive drinking and behavior. Also, though there is a lot of development in Cayman, there are limited entertainment options that people can attend. But yet look at how many liquor stores and bars there are!!
Personal irresponsibility.
Also known as stupidasses.
@8:24:
“Personal irresponsibility”…
…leads to obesity, drink driving, and voting in very crappy governments: in other words, it is a very prevalent part of human nature ‘roun yah. The smart thing to do is to find a work-around. In the case of drink driving, a safe ride programme would be a nice work around. Not perfect, but every little bit helps.
I don’t think that most of the bad drivers here are Jamaican or caymanian I think what happened is that a lot of these people driving here never drive in their country and therefore knows nothing about driving.as for Huber that will never happen not here this is how some of the caymanian people lives and taxi drivers did not made those prices of their own it’s been made by their bosses the transportation board so any one have a problem take it up with them.i still don’t understand people will spend a thousand dollars on alcoholic drinks but still murmur about the fare they have to pay a driver to take them safely home come on man.
Eh?
Agreed. Most foreigners have never driven a car in their home country so they don’t have the common sense or the common eye to drive on the road. They are unable to multitask and check their rear view & side mirrors every couple of seconds. They don’t realize that a roundabout is different than a four way and they ignore the fact of an indicator and merge without looking.
So how many die every year because of their stupid driving?
By the way….. Is it o.k. if I don’t believe you when you say they “Have never driven in their home country”?
Good grief! In English please! Back to school for you!
Government shelled out millions of dollars for a road camera system.To help prevent crime and reduce traffic issues including drink driving.
Dodgy dealings between Eric Bush of the CI Government and His Pal Stuart Bostock made sure the contract was given to The security Centre
For what ? If Anything needs investigation. This does
Same people behind the digital license plates too….
Problem is way overpriced taxi and no public transport. Give us Uber
Getting drunk isn’t accidental. Uber doesn’t fix the problem drinking. Flex app already in Cayman. Hire a taxi for the night. Lots of ways for responsible people to get from A to B – including NOT drinking, because you know you chose to drive. Nobody has the right to drive drunk in protest to the PTU.
Police: “We have recently realized that is is paydays that may be responsible for most DUI’s. This is contrary to the belief (well known fact) that taxis are overpriced and our governments reluctance to acknowledge this as to not offend them and risk votes.”
Ludacris said it best.
Prices of Taxis, lack of public transportation (for Drunks??…), does NOT excuse a lack of personal responsibility! This topic is similar to many on this forum – Caymanians seek to blame anyone other than themselves for their actions. Citizens – GROW UP, accept responsibility for yourselves. Don’t sell ancestoral property for a quick buck; don’t ignore the education of your children; don’t tolerate abuse of your neighbors; don’t vote for corrupt officials; don’t accept Ministers who assault women;… I could go on, but you get the message – – – Cayman is a profound MESS and it is OUR OWN FAULT!!!!!
Our fault yes, but it doesn’t help when there is no enforcement and those in charge i.e. Govt clearly don’t give a F, so why should we?
Welcome to Cayman.
Very disappointing response 4:34 pm. You SHOULD ‘give a f!’ And no need to welcome me to Cayman, been here since 1984. Loved driving around then, hate it now… Too many drivers who ‘DON’T GIVE A F…’ Like you!.
Can’t touch taxi rates, Taxi drivers are Kenny Saunders and Mac’s voter base.
MC Hammer said it best.
So now “payday” is the culprit for DUI’s and road collisions. More like mainly irresponsible choices that have consequences.
Nothing new here, this has been going on for decades. All my favourite watering holes over the years have enjoyed steady evening trade during the working week then got completely slammed on Friday. And this wasn’t people paid weekly – it was professional staff on salary. In the UK Friday is referred to as POETS or PUFO Day by office workers who know they don’t have to go to work next morning.
This is literally the laziest and funniest article in many a day. As a melting pot nation, payday means fun and celebration in every country, be it libations or a nice dinner out.
Go out to dinner and drink at home – There, I fixed it for you.
Yes, working class people are the problem, not Cayman’s over dependency on alcohol. There is no reason to have a common consensus on alcoholism. This is a non-issue as so little of us actually have a payday now since cayman covid lockdowns.
Typical RCIPS delayed reaction/realization!
“Hey Team, I just got a brainwave! I kinda think the increased drunk driving and accidents on weekends might have something to do with some people getting paid on Fridays! Wha’ unna tink?”
“Hinspector, me believe you haf a point. You wan’ me do a press release?”
World Class
So what are the demographics RCIP? Please provide them, including country they were first licensed to drive in!
Racist
Crashes, Jamaicans and Caymanians are the main culprits. This is followed by Spanish speaking nationalities.
DUI, literally everyone. Black, white, rich, poor, male, female, white collar, blue collar, including police officers and other law enforcement arms.
Source. Former police officer who attended plenty of MVAs and DUI reports.
Anonymous 28 @ 10:01 am – Of course…it reflects our recent census stats!
Hey, police chief! How about YOU telling your men to get those drunk drivers off the street…… or tell us why you (or they) won’t do what needs to be done!
I’m with I.B.
What else and who else are the Rcips are going to blame for this very dangerous situation on our roads we now face ?? Straight up start dealing with unnah absolute menace to society brethren and countrymen who unnnah keep giving a pass and bly for traffic offenses on our roads.Please stop the sale of Cayman drivers license by nefarious means to certain foreign nationals who clearly cannot drive.Stop the selling illegal liquor after hours at the various Speak easies that unnah are well aware of in certain communities.
Yeah, Obviously.
It’s 2022 and they only realized this now?
People drink after payday on Friday.
Dogs chase cats.
The sky is blue.
Things fall downwards.
And so on…
Absolute idiots.
World Class
We need Uber here.
Sorry kids, Uber ain’t free. Your parents pay those bills. Surge pricing algo gonna smack you into adulthood. Still not reason to drive drunk.
Enforcement of the traffic laws is how it’s done in developed areas of the world. Here in third world that is not an option. Here they just let anyone drive and let God sort it all out. Just drive as if half of the drivers around you follow no laws.
So how do I know, or even have a good estimate of, how many mixed drinks or beer or wine I can have without going past the limit?
Does a limit other than zero therefore make sense?
Is this a serious question? There are a million online resources and have been for at least 20 years. Pretty simple calc based on body mass and a few other metrics, including what type of drink you are having (beer, shot, wine, etc.) and how many you’ve had over the past x hours. They will even tell you how long until you are at certain levels, including 0 BAC.
Once you check this once it should be common sense to know if you are over the limit going forward, unless you plan to drastically gain / lose weight. Scientifically. Not based on how you “feel fine” after your 9th drink in 2 hours.
The only concern I’ve ever had with these calcs is that if you are having mixed drinks (particularly at a party) you are likely to get heavy pours, so I’ve always erred on the side of caution and added 1 drink to my actual amount.
With the old limit (.100) it was about 3-5 drinks depending on body mass, rate of consumption etc..
With the new limit…who knows; 2 max?
Popular filtration assumptions vary widely on the development and health of the host liver. Most of our heavy regular drinkers (over 7 units a week) have scarred and impaired filtration systems. Buy a pocket BAC device on Amazon for $20 if you want to play that game, or just commit to ordering a ginger ale or mocktail if you’re driving. If you can’t manage that, you don’t deserve the privilege of a driver’s license.
Brother, if you don’t know that, you shouldn’t drink alcoholic crap at all…… and you will save money, and maybe save your life. The same applies to stupid druggies.
Getting paid and drinking has gone hand in hand for centuries.
Dont blame it on that. Blame the idiots that live here
Do the idiots include the rich white folks?
They’re the biggest problem, their drinking is done at expensive happy hour locations where police don’t target.
Bingo!
Or the rich ancestoral Caymanians that just sold the lots behind, next to and in front of your house and are our celebrating their good fortune, and your demise???
Plain to see the RCIPS couldn’t care less about drink driving. I was knocked down by someone who left the scene (presumably under the influence) earlier this year and their efforts to identify and catch the perpetrator were appalling (and unsuccessful) although not out of step with my expectations.
My advice – best not land yourself in a situation where you have to rely on the Police here for anything. Forget it.
So I guess this is new information?
Yet more “warnings, reminders and reiterating” from our highly budgeted RCIPS….and they’re just correlating payday with more drinking!….really?
“Many DUI arrests are made as a result of traffic collisions”. So we would have significantly less arrests if the drivers somehow didn’t crash!…Those drivers are then almost arresting themselves?!
Hopeless bunch!
For half the people on our roads the message should just be ‘don’t drive’
These police comments are remarkable. ‘ However, as we step up our proactive DUI detection strategy, the number of persons stopped and arrested while driving drunk has also increased.” amazing… I would never have thought that as you increase your attempts to detect something, you detect it more. I wonder if when they step up their attempts to diet, they eat less.
Nothing to do with the lack of ability to indicate or drive relatively well that we see all day every day, the crashes are clearly everyone saying ‘it’s pay day, settle the mortgage, pay cuc, pay the water bill then crash my car on the way home’.
$13 off overproof rum today. Luckily I keep a straw in my car for such occasions.
Cheers!
Give me Uber ir Flex and i’ll stop.
That is one option. You might also stop when you are arrested, prosecuted and sentenced. Yet another option is when you roll your car on the ETH. I hope if the latter is your “stop-point” that you don’t take any innocent lives with you.
How about not drinking jackass
I neve drank a jackass.
“Give me Uber ir Flex and i’ll stop [putting the lives of my entire community at risk to satisfy my childish need to drink to excess and then drive].”
“Give me money and I’ll stop stealing.”
“Give me a woman and I’ll stop assaulting them.”
Slippery slope…
So I went to the judicial administration building this morning to pay a parking ticket (double yellow) and could not find parking anywhere…..
Guess what happened?
The security guard, court bailiff and police officer saw me and told me it was ok to park on a double yellow outside the judicial admin building to run inside and pay the ticket for parking on a double yellow line.
You cant make this sh*t up. Only in Cayman.
Happy Friday everyone.
hahah, you nearly had me….
who the hell gets a ticket for parking in any regard in cayman????!!!!!
My wife.
Complete lack of enforcement of the country’s traffic laws roads actually fuel the DUI and ever other driving offense committed thousands of times daily but lets go check for illegal tint right?
Nah. Some policee have tinted windows.
What is really impeding the police doing checks at all the bars from Happy Hour onwards; especially on Fridays?
From Sunset, Rackham’s, Sand Bar all the way up the strip you can physically see how many cars are being driven by people who are drinking. They start arriving 3:30ish and by 8 are gone. It’s blatantly obvious. They are sitting ducks FFS.
Have our lawmakers thought of making DUI a criminal offense? That would also be a huge deterrent than the current situation which is merely loss of license for a year. it would mean that expats especially would lose their work permit with a criminal record. You think they could get away with this in the UK for instance? Hell f**king no; they wouldn’t even risk it.
Why do we not have points system on peoples licenses when they break the traffic law? Its another reason why the driving is so sh*t down here. You get a ticket, pay and carry on. If points were out against your license the standard would improve. People would either stop doing what they do or the sh*t drivers would be removed from our rides after racking up max points allowed.
There was a 25yr old in Traffic court this week with 6 speeding tickets he had accumulated in May alone. In any other country’s he would have lost his license. Here he gets a payment plan per ticket, leaves court and off he goes back on the road.
Its not rocket science and the public are taking the piss daily knowing full well the chances of being caught are 0.
A proper public transport system would also reduce numbers; literally overnight if people could get a bus home and not an $100 taxi. Why do the buses stop at 7pm? Soley to accommodate the Taxi’s whose prices double after 8. FACT
The yearly DUI operation in December is about as retarded as one can get as well. Lets announce to all seasoned DUI drivers that there will be road blocks every night…and guess what?
They do not drive and the RCIPs hail it a success when they get 1/10th of the actual numbers they would if they actually did it regularly for the other 11 months in the year.
RCIPs here’s a fact:
You give people an inch; they will take a mile.
Start enforcing the traffic law from top to bottom:
Parking, indicators, DUI, seatbelts, driving across the zebra crossing when people are still on it, buses stopping at zebra crossings and blocking drivers view of people walking on to said zebra crossing, negotiating roundabouts, the list is endless yet all you seem concerned about is effing window tint on cars in morning rush hour.
They are effing useless and 3/4s of the island is taking the piss and they don’t seem to give a monkeys about fixing anything. Earn some respect FFS.
Great post 👏
payday is middle of the month..
Stake out the main brunch venues on Sunday and set up vehicle check points. Breathalyse them all and report all the pissed people to traffic court. Result: Luca, Kimpton, Papa Gallo et al see a reduction in patrons and profit, moan their face off to someone connected and see the cops assigned elsewhere very quickly.
Pic is wrong – do not drink and drive!
YES! Even if not drunk, do not drive – stay home if you want to imbibe.
Depends on what you’ve been drinking.
Why not? Still drive better than you.
Perhaps it is time to make it an offense to be a passenger in a car with a drunk driver. The passengers are knowingly allowing that driver to break the law, they have been drinking in the same bar, they know how much alcohol has been consumed. So instead of taking their friends keys, calling them a taxi, or reporting them to the police, they got in the car for a ride home with someone they knew was drunk. That needs to be an offence too. Start hitting people hard with jail time for drink driving.
Great idea! So what happens when the passenger is drunk too?
We make it a criminal offense for a drunk person to get in a passenger seat.
Got it. SMH.
Maybe they should make it a criminal offense for bars to knowingly ply people with drink and then let them drive out their carpark. If the bars were seen to bear some responsibility and there was a threat placed on them…..they would flatten your tires and lock away your leys before letting you leave.
Drunk riding????? Nice thought, but they are also tipsy, possibly worse as their ‘designated driver’ may have volunteered 4 shots ago. But I truly appreciate the thought.
So you would have to issue every member of the public with a breathalyzer testing machine then?
Alas, our taxi drivers aren’t necessarily sober either.
Give them a few more years and they will find out that people are speeding when they’re late for work.
They know that already but it’s more important to pull over a 1995 Civic with tint.
Instead of them try to implement a very reliable and cost efficient solution no just send out warnings.
No shit, they’re finally figuring out that obvious correlation? How many more years for them to figure out the mysteries of Happy Hour, bottomless Brunch, and nightclub closing times?!?
Shouldn’t cars be equipped with a mechanism that detects alcohol on the driver’s breath, therefore the cat won’t start?
That will come right after taxis adopt taxi meters.
We could also equip our Govt with a thinking mechanism that detects brain farts and deletes them before they exit their mouth…..
We must stop paying people immediately.
What people are we paying? And what are we paying for?
Stop giving out paychecks – problem solved
I wish there was a sufficiently functional public transit system in place to prevent this from happening in the first place.
Public transport should not be there for transporting drunks! Personal responsibility needs to be taught – #Caymaneducation! Drinking to socialize can be responsible and legal. Drinking to excess and illegal – stay home!
stop, using common sense is illegal here
Transit excuses are classic deflection tactics that prop the underlying problem drinking. Drunk driving is just one outward expression of the narcissism and denial that accompanies serious problem addiction. No amount of taxis or free buses fix the drinking problem.
Can we stop stating the obvious and find a strategy for dealing with the situation.
Showing up.
Look by the liquor stores on Fridays when people get paid. Tells you all you need to know.
Drinking in their trucks waiting for traffic to die down and then gone in a puff of smoke with their last beer (out the 6pack) in the cup holder for the drive home.
Working Class Heroes
Pay day facilitates more drunk driving. Gosh what geniuses we have here. Pure Caymanian education, training and competence of our mighty officers. This gives me a nice warm secure feeling in their skill set. Kind of like watching a wall being torn down and yes… yes… simply watching!
But to stop the wall from being torn down with what they had for info would have required them to, oh? DO THEIR JOB! NO NO NO – Not in Cayman.
Okay. So, we’ve been “urged” to not drink and drive, “reminded” not to do so, and now “reiterated” that we shouldn’t do so.
Less bark, more bite.
Stake out near bars near closing. More roadblocks. Arrests and convictions. That’s the only “urging” some people understand.
No go. We might pull over the oligarchs.
Wow, what a revelation. And RCIPS have known this to be the case just recently, like in the past decade, Really? This has been the case since the first cars on the road at which time there were workers, paydays and places selling liquor.
Get out there, crack down 24/7/365 and actively catch and fine offenders!!!
So remind me, since when do police just issue reminders instead of getting from behind their desks or the wheel of their air conditioned vehicles to actually enforce road rules and issue fines to ALL offenders?
In Cayman? As rare as enforcing basic laws and protecting fundamental rights. Cayman is a desert for 21’st century ethics. It’s going to be a long, slow, haul for us to become an enlightened, compassionate society. And as our ancestoral Caymanians sell away our land, heritage and soul, much will be lost forever – and it is our OWN DA.N FAULT. Shame on us.