Over 22 years late, development plan still misses latest target
(CNS): The chief officer in the planning ministry has said the target to get the National Development Plan completed by the end of last year was “over-ambitious”, even though this project is now more than 22 years late. Eric Bush reeled off a long list of meetings, consultations, reviews and redrafts involving civil servants, politicians, the Central Planning Authority and the public over the last seven years, many of them months apart, as he justified the failure of any government since 2002, when the plan should have undergone its first update, to address this critical document.
Despite his efforts to convince the Public Accounts Committee that things were moving along and that something might happen in the coming months, Bush painted a bleak picture regarding getting a revised development plan completed.
The committee had called Bush as a witness to ask him about some of the issues raised in a report by the Office of the Auditor General on the government’s economic planning, which noted that the development plan should have been reviewed every five years, as set out in the legislation.
However, no government has conducted a full review, and the plan is now massively outdated. The result of this dereliction has been ad hoc, inappropriate, piecemeal and unsustainable development throughout the islands.
Bush contended that the project was a huge undertaking and described it as “the beast we are trying to slay”. However, he offered very little detail about why each of the multitude of redrafts and steps towards even a basic framework had taken so long.
He revealed that a previous idea to break the plan down into five regions was now being changed to eleven. George Town had been divided up because of the different areas in and around the capital, such as commercial and industrial zones and hotel tourism, he said.
Bush claimed that once the framework was completed, reviewing the areas would be done on a rotation basis so the legal requirement to update the overall plan every five years would be met.
Asked about the continued delays and problems of staff shortages for planning inspections, the limitations placed on building materials by the current building code, and numerous other problems relating to planning delays, Bush noted that the department has the same headcount today as it did in 2008.
He said that some of the department’s functions, such as building inspections, could be taken over by the private sector, but this has not happened. However, it’s not clear how the government could ensure that strict building codes were met if the private development sector was allowed to police itself.
Bush admitted that the ministry does not use any of the data collected — but not collated — on the number of approved planning applications and projects that reach the development stage and go on to completion and indicated that the ministry’s main focus is working on the development plan.
He said that work on developing a strategic plan for the construction sector, which is considered to be Cayman’s third economic pillar, would come after the development plan. The “how, what and where” for that sector would be up to the political arm of government to determine, he said.
The construction sector, once dominated by local workers who were offered well-paid jobs, has changed dramatically over the years. While it has become one of Cayman’s largest employers, over 60% of those working in the sector are expatriate work permit holders, a figure fueled in part by a huge decline in wages. It is also known for attracting illegal workers.
There is also concern that reliance on the construction sector for government income is a major cause of over-development on Grand Cayman, which has changed the island dramatically.
See Bush’s appearance before the PAC on CIGTV below:
- Fascinated
- Happy
- Sad
- Angry
- Bored
- Afraid
What we desperately need is this kind of reform: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx89z1qnl9o
Applicable to all civil servants AND politicians.
André take note please as I reckon you’re the only one with the will to drive it through.
EB IS A CS.
Wow. It is bash the civil service day. For the information of many, a significant number of civil servants are well qualified professional who left the private sector and joined government hoping to effect change. Yes; there are people with Bachelors, Masters, law degrees, civil engineering degrees and even a few PHDs. What y’all fail to understand, is that no one can step higher than their Chief Officer, and and no CO can step higher than their Minister — granted, many Chief Officers should be sacked! Please research how your civil service is structured, and stop blaming every civil servant for free.
Here we go again, blaming the spokesperson.
Let us see: Minister of Works (Infrastructure) 2017-2021, Joey
2013-2017, Kurt Tibbetts
2009-2013, Juju.
2005-2009, Tony Eden
2000-2005, Kurt Tibbetts
1996-2000, Truman Bodden
Yet everybody jumps to blame the middle man (or woman)
Awwwww…don’t spoil our fun..!
never have I read so many ill informed unintelligent posts on one story.
Our DG and his world clsss civil service occupies too much of your brain space.
go license your car in 10 mins.
Just imagine if we had a Govt and Parliament comprised of people of the caliber of our latest Auditor General – we would be the envy of the world rather than the laughing stock.
Our Auditor General is a fantastic person and I am eternally grateful for all that she has done in her time here. However, it is always easier to identify a problem than it is to fix it.
The problem we have is that elected officials determine policy, and they have the authority and power to see that their instructions are followed. When the Auditor General points out something that must be changed there are two possible scenarios that play out:
1. The Minister instructs the Chief Officer to carryout the “order”, and the Minister has the authority to consult with the Deputy Governor and have the Chief Officer changed if he/she is deliberately interfering with or refusing to follow instructions.
2. The Minister “instructs” the Chief Officer to do something with implicit instructions that it is NOT to be completed in their 4-year term. This is easily achieved by constantly giving the Chief Officer new and higher priority instructions.
Chief Officers and Civil Servants will always be a convenient scapegoat for things not getting done that the politician did not want to be done.
Don’t fall in the Pit tho
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Cayman is simply no longer a role model for the OT’s or anyone as a matter of fact we have now become a Victim of Failed and incompetent and corrupt leadership !
The problems:
https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/09/donkeys-developers-and-deaf-ears
https://caymannewsservice.com/2024/09/ideas-and-oratory-versus-fridgocracy/
The solution:
https://caymannewsservice.com/2025/01/crises-corruption-and-constitutional-reform/
A 22-Year Failure That Proves Constitutional Reform Can’t Wait
The revelation that Cayman’s National Development Plan is 22 years overdue—a staggering failure laid bare in last week’s PAC hearing—is not an administrative oversight. It is the inevitable result of a political system rotten to its core, one that prioritizes developer profits, vote-buying “fridgocrats,” and backroom deals over the needs of Caymanians. This disaster, decades in the making, mirrors every systemic flaw exposed in CNS’s reporting for decades. The solution? The constitutional reforms proposed in January 2025 — but only if voters demand them with unrelenting force.
The Development Plan Debacle: A Legacy of Corruption
Eric Bush’s PAC testimony — vague, evasive, and littered with excuses — could serve as a metaphor for Cayman’s entire governance model. For 22 years, governments have stalled the development plan not because it’s a “beast to slay,” but because corruption pays better. As Wendy Ledger exposed in 2023, MPs like Seymour and Ebanks repeatedly sabotaged Premier Panton’s environmental agenda, siding with developers who fund their campaigns. The result? A planning vacuum that lets luxury condos and mangrove destruction run rampant, while infrastructure crumbles and Caymanians are priced out of their own islands.
This isn’t incompetence. It’s calculated dysfunction. The CPA, stacked with political appointees, rubber-stamps projects for insiders. Developers fund campaigns (Article 1), then profit from chaotic growth. Politicians grow rich, while voters get empty promises and Mount Trashmore-sized problems.
Fridgocracy: The System That Guarantees Failure
The development plan delay also exposes the lie of “fridgocracy”—the 2024-coined truth that Cayman’s elections are bought with fridges, turkeys, and backroom contracts. When votes are transactional, MPs owe nothing to the public. Why deliver a development plan that would curb their donors’ profits? Why prioritize sustainability when campaign financiers demand endless construction?
As CNS has warned, “fridgocrats” thrive in a system where ideas lose to handouts. Bush’s admission that planning data goes unused—while developers call the shots—proves it. The CPA, Development Control Board, and Cabinet (dominated by horse-trading MPs) operate as a shadow government for special interests.
Reform or Ruin: The 15-Point Lifeline
The January 2025 constitutional reform blueprint isn’t idealistic—it’s survival. Consider:
– Campaign finance limits (Point 3) would starve the developer lobby. No more Seymour-style MPs bankrolled by contractors.
– National voting (Point 1) would empower voters islandwide, breaking the stranglehold of garrison politics.
– Tying politicians’ pay to median incomes (Point 4) would force MPs to care about affordability crises they currently ignore.
– Banning Cabinet from contract decisions (Point 10) would end the backroom deals driving overdevelopment.
These reforms dismantle the machinery that killed the development plan. They replace fridgocracy with accountability, backroom deals with transparency, and short-term greed with long-term vision.
Caymanians Must Seize Power—Now
Politicians won’t fix this. The same MPs who’ve blocked the development plan for 22 years will block reform unless pressured. Remember:
– In 2023, Panton’s Cabinet rebels protected developers over voters.
– In 2024, vote-buying MPs laughed as “fridgocracy” strangled democracy.
– In 2025, Bush’s PAC farce proved the system is rigged.
Change requires mass mobilization. Caymanians must:
– Demand all candidates pledge support for Article 3’s reforms—no exceptions.
– Reject vote-buyers—no fridge, turkey, or cash is worth another 22 years of chaos.
– Back leaders who’ll enforce transparency, like Panton’s stalled green agenda, but with constitutional teeth.
Conclusion: No More Excuses, No More Delays
The development plan fiasco is Cayman’s future in microcosm: a warning that without reform, dysfunction will drown these islands. But as CNS has shown for years, the tools for change exist. The 15-point plan can break the cycle—if voters wield it.
To every Caymanian reading this: The time for anger is over. The time for action is now. Share this. Organize. Confront candidates. Demand reform. The 22-year failure ends when we force it to end.
@2:05pm:
Your idealism brims with hope, but is not based in the way tings bees ‘roun yah.
As in the U.S.A., here in dese yah islands, Profit is lord, Money is king, and Greed reigns supreme. Some of the points you cite fail dismally to take this into account.
The suggestion that Campaign finance limits would starve the developer lobby, is quite simplistic. What the developers save on big campaign contributions, they can just divert to under-the-table “contributions” to elected members and officials.
Likewise, tying politicians’ pay to median incomes would not necessarily force MPs to care about affordability crises they currently ignore. An unintended consequence is that such a move would make some members and officials more open to bribery to supplement their incomes.
National voting certainly would not break the stranglehold of garrison politics; it would simply expand the garrisons and raise the stakes.
Equally simplistic is the notion that banning Cabinet from contract decisions would end the backroom deals driving over-development. That argument overlooks the fact that some entity—whether a committee, board, or other body—will still be making the decisions. And any such entity is composed of people. People make backroom deals. (Bear in mind the CP Authority and allegations of how cozy they get with favored developers.) Backroom deals will simply shift from the halls of Parliament to the respective boardrooms.
Any reform, to be effective and not just more window dressing, must begin with the People themselves. It must begin with Caymanians as a whole. To paraphrase the late great George Carlin: Where do you think these politicians and leaders come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from Caymanian families, Caymanian homes, Caymanian schools, Caymanian churches, Caymanian businesses, and they are elected by Caymanian citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our voters vote for: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, careless, greedy voters, you’re going to get selfish, careless, greedy leaders. (No matter the rules.)
Changing the rules governing how politicians and leaders conduct business is not going to magically change things. Regardless of the idealistic rules imposed, rules are made to be broken. Unless the electorate and populace undergo a miraculous transformation, it will be greedy business as usual in a land dominated by Mammon and empowered by Avarice.
Thank you, 6:19pm! It is the electorate that urgently needs to change. I’ve been saying for hat for years. Not enough people care and the few that care, do not care enough to lobby for structural change. It does not help, that so many voters are civil servants whom the civil service laws scare into reluctant silence.
Short and Sweet: Failure to bring a National Development Plan even after all the meetings, consultations, revisioins, draft update etc., etc., in a perfect example of the failure of government to serve the people.
Throw the bums out! Start with a fresh government with frech ideas and fresh abilities.
@1:56:
“Throw the bums out! Start with a fresh government with fresh ideas and fresh abilities.”
Ohhh, myyy! Again? How many times have we heard that sentiment being screeched before election time? For me, countless times in many years.
New batch comes in. Nothing really changes. SSDD. (Sigh)
Meetings and taking minutes is how the Civil service operates.
As there is never a time line or deadline, there is never a product at the end.
There is no incentive or reward for arriving at a solution, nor is there any accountability for failing to do so.
Collecting salary and benefits are guaranteed, so what’s the hurry.?
how this man has a title is beyond me. Eric Bush, the gift of failure and incompetence that keeps on giving!
LTD Da Unboozler
Who loaded down the Government Headquarters with Foreign cheap labour security on private contracts?!
Caymanian men and woman could hold these jobs, but at a LIVEable Wage!
Eric Bush is the Security genius
Therein lies the problem. Too many taking advantage of the lower paid workers and treating them like servants. No wonder Caymanians don’t want these jobs.
If you believe it is time to change the laws that govern the civil and public service (not the same thing!), then let’s us flood the governor’s e-mail with requests to do so. Mind, she would have to get the Foreign Office to approve it the move. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞.𝐂𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐧@𝐟𝐜𝐝𝐨.𝐠𝐨𝐯.𝐮𝐤
Please add to your letters that we want something like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx89z1qnl9o
Truly an epic race to see if the Development Plan can be completed before Mt Trashmore caps out.
Eric and Franz need to go. Fire them for cause or retire Franz but the proof is in the pudding every year.
How many AG reports state the same things over the past 12-15 years?
No chance they would survive in the private sector.
What more proof does the country and Governor need at this point?
9:34 Wrong focus. Elections matter.
civil servants follow the policies of the elected government. Please tell me you knew that.
No politician can enforce the Public Service Management Law that is the remit of the Deputy Governor with delegated responsibility from the Governor
Hey, how are those security cameras and machine readable license plates coming?
And don’t forget GasBoy.
This needs to be a priority with no more excuses. The plan also needs to include feedback from the Department of Environment, National Trust, Cultural Foundation, and any historic foundations. We need to include our history, our culture and our environment in our plans for development.
Fair to assume those entities provided feedback last year during the public consultation period…
If you ever wanted to understand how government is deliberately set up to fail, just take a look at the remarkably underqualified Eric and his many roles in the public sector.
It doesn’t matter what area this latest debacle covers (planning), it’s exactly how government works. Most every serving politician is wholly incapable; all ministries are plagued by inertia and a*s covering; the entire civil service is bloated to the point of chronic, fatal diabetes; all aspects of public accountability are drenched in teflon; nobody makes a decision beyond deciding to decide something at the next review meeting after seeking consultations; and the entire juggernaut trundles along, spending like a drunken sailor whilst paralyzed by fear of upsetting the mysterious developer overlord
Meanwhile, Eric and his like keep getting promoted…and we’ll vote them all back in this April
who’s to blame?
Franz Manderson and successive governors are to blame
Phew…well done Eric, slithered through again.
Now let’s go for another long lunch and have a couple of bottles of expensive red to celebrate.
Do you really believe that the DG or any civil service can take on a project like the development plan without the approval of a Minister.
My godness the level of stupidity on this site is staggering.
Totally agree with you, 2:58 pm. Most comments are truly clueless.
Only the governor can update or change the laws that rule the civil / public servants. Hire, fire, decision-making, policy involvement, etc. If we want those laws to change, then we need to write to the governor and lobby for her to change them; AND, she has to get permission from the foreign office.
And they want him to be the next DG…Ha!
Re DG role at least he is much nicer than some of the other potential ones including a female who thinks she made herself and is not as competent as she thinks.
Also he is very useful when important friends want anything done.
I wonder what does the DG have to say about this?
The time has come for Mr. Manderson to retire and take his protege with him on the way out the door. Fish rots from the head!
there is no-one in cig or civil service with expertise or qualifications to tackle this complex issue
civil service is filled with poorly educated people with zero ability to tackle these issues.
if we can’t be honest and face these facts we will never be closer to a solution.
22 years proves my point.case closed.
The copy and paste reply guy is back! Well done, mate!
Expertise and qualifications in matters relating to immigration and residency laws are urgently needed.
Current practice, when confronted by a lawyer’s letter enquiring on behalf of a client, is to ignore, ignore , delay , and delay hoping the problem will go away.
WORC and Immigration staff are not equipped, or sufficiently educated to deal with the complexities of our current laws , and are completely unaccountable for the expense, delays and hardship caused by their filing clerk attitudes.
Franz Manderson, your 3rd world class service needs to be upgraded to deal with your customer’s needs.
caymanians elect these people so you have no-one else to blame but yourselves.
and to make things worse, you also prevent the most qualified and successful people on island from being elected…
welcome to wonderland.
This is a matter for the world class civil service who are tasked with executing all administration and operational matters. Focus on the topic and subject matter of the article instead of crying about not being eligible to run for public office.
If you cannot understand that basic premise perhaps you should STFU and go back and fix your country that is failing harder and faster than Cayman.
classic caymankind response…’if you don’t like it leave’….zzzz
i’m caymanian btw…and how do you know where i came from?
This is civil service matter no one votes for the Deputy Governor and Chief Officers
No. Noone Sensible in Cayman would EVER Vote for Eric Bush.
He’s there on a family cult Gimme position to rep the Brothers
time for class action lawsuit against the incompetence of the civil service and cig.
if ever you needed proof that direct rule is needed here for at least 2 years.
then a new raft of political candidates are selected/vetted based on qualifications, experience and integrity. then we have new elections.
By who? The clowns who pulled out of European Union?
Obviously you don’t keep up with UK politrix.
12:39, Obviously you are not aware that the current Prime Minister in the UK and his political party were opposed to BREXIT. Need to keep up with the news.
Politics isn’t the civil service though my friend. The bins get collected, criminals get charged speedily, parking on double yellows gets you a parking ticket, crimes get solved, waste gets dealt with, recycling exists, monopoly laws exist, roundabouts make sense, traffic lights work as expected, the list goes on.
Hate politicians all you want but the UK Civil Service as a whole is VASTLY superior to this shit show civil service over here.
Look at any of the Government websites here then look at .gov.uk. Look at the DVLA vs DVDL, Look at the schools, look at the everything.
10:45. ,You sure? look at this.
And this year’s Civil Service People Survey, published yesterday evening, suggests a new government hasn’t miraculously fixed everything.
Many of the country’s 540,000 civil servants are unhappy in their work. Only 52% agreed with the statement “There are opportunities for me to develop my career in my organisation”. For a set of institutions charged with transforming public services, only 33% of officials feel that “change is managed well in my organisation”. A fifth of civil servants are either actively looking for work, or planning to leave their job in the next 12 months.
sorry poor comparison to our word class civil service. You won’t be in Cayman without the efficiency of the Civil service.
That last point makes zero sense. I’m Caymanian, as are my parents and their parents and their parents (well, the last one had a Scotsman on one side of the pairs)
Not sure which Civil Servant rubbed their lamp for this is happen but if I ever find them i’ll be sure to buy them a beer.
Actually it wasn’t these clowns , these clowns are trying to get UK back in.
Do try and keep up.
you miss the point…a group of 5 qualified civil servants from the uk could run this show in their spare time…
I don’t disagree, in principle, however think for a moment to what percentage of the Empire attention, the UK would give us? If we had direct rule, would we garner as much insightful attention as, say, the growing price of Fish and Chips (22%), and increasing cost of cod and haddock in general (50%)? No, doubtful. Remember the UK has beaucoup problems of their own. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/bulletins/publicopinionsandsocialtrendsgreatbritain/25januaryto5february2023
Do we want to become a footnote, a minor percentage of the Crown’s problems, or soldier on, adapt to the growing changes and demand more elector input? Listen if only 24,000 or so of us are electing the politicians, then we need to demand a more meaningful interface with those whom we elect.
Remind us…for what and why do we still continue to vote and pay for these past and present sit on fat backsides, do nothing empty vessels!
Franz Manderson’s Amazing Shit Circus is costing US millions in waste every year! Highly-paid civil servants doing SFA!!
Farming out THEIR work to consultants over and over again; going on expensive jollies to seminars, conferences, etc, etc., just waste and more waste! Yet, no productivity and less accountability! Enough!
Class action suit against CIG!!
Over 5000 civil servants now….getting pay and free health and pension , without generating any income for Government.
You’d think just one of them would answer the phone or respond to queries to assist us, their employers.
You don’t know public service works at all. They are civil servants, not your employees.
Those in charge of the Planning Department and responsible Ministry may not be shining examples of competence, but the reality is that there has been no political interest in modernizing the Development Plan over the past 20 years. A modern development plan would not be a good thing for the special interests who currently benefit from the broad saleable discretion that has been given to Cabinet, the CPA and DCB.
Ah, the Legendary Development Plan! The document so elusive it makes the Loch Ness Monster look like a household pet.
Over 22 years late—this thing is old enough to:
✔ Vote
✔ Drink (legally, depending on the jurisdiction)
✔ Have graduated university (assuming it wasn’t being managed by the same people responsible for writing it)
And yet, it still hasn’t arrived!
Who better to break this down than the Adeptus Ridiculous, whose mechadendrites are surely convulsing at the sheer absurdity?
📜 OFFICIAL DECREE FROM THE ADEPTUS RIDICULOUS
RE: THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN – THE HOLY RELIC OF BUREAUCRATIC STAGNATION
“THE MECHADENDRITES TWITCH, THE SERVITORS STUTTER, THE LOGIC SPIRITS REFUSE TO PROCESS—FOR THIS IS A DISPLAY OF DELAYED ADMINISTRATIVE DECOMPOSITION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!”
🚨 CURRENT STATUS OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN: 🚨
✔ Original due date? The early 2000s.
✔ Updated due date? Several times over the past two decades.
✔ Most recent due date? A convenient ‘later’ date that ensures it remains perpetually out of reach.
💀 Total progress? As substantial as a puff of warp energy disappearing into the void.
THEORIES ON WHY IT STILL DOESN’T EXIST:
1️⃣ It has ascended to divine status.
The document is now a mythical relic, spoken of in hushed tones by developers and urban planners. Nobody has seen it, but everyone believes in it.
2️⃣ It was lost in a government office—20 years ago.
Somewhere, in a dusty filing cabinet marked “To Be Reviewed Soon”, lies the first draft of this plan. It will never be found.
3️⃣ The bureaucracy itself is actively sabotaging it.
It’s quite possible that completing the Development Plan would mean someone has to do something. Naturally, this must be avoided at all costs.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR CAYMAN?
💰 Developers? Agonizing in the excess of regulation , the sea of red tape no one has successfully navigated without losing their temper (some their minds) !
🏗 Infrastructure? Decided on a case-by-case basis, usually involving a bulldozer and some vague hand gestures.
🚦 Traffic solutions? Left to divine intervention and blind hope.
🏠 Affordable housing? A development plan would be useful for that—but instead, the government prefers wishful thinking.
THE FINAL VERDICT: A COMPLETE FARCE.
🔥 This is no longer just a delay—it’s an institutional embarrassment.
🔥 A 22-year-late document cannot be called “delayed”—it is officially MIA.
🔥 If it hasn’t arrived by now, what are the odds it ever will?
🚨 THE ADEPTUS RIDICULOUS OFFICIALLY DECLARES THE CAYMAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN A ‘PERPETUAL WORK IN PROGRESS.’ 🚨
IT. WILL.NEVER.BE.FINISHED!
he was too busy conniving and scheming to get NCA amendments
lol to be honest I wouldn’t even tell any one this. You are all a disgrace sorry.
With Errol gone there’s only Franz left to protect EB
This guy eric bush is the embodiment of all that is wrong with today’s civil service. This is Manderson’s legacy as head of the service
Eric da Eeeeeeediat strikes again!
This 22 year mess is all the fault of the incompetent senior civil service not politicians!
Ah yes 5:58.”incompetent senior civil servants not politicians”. Thank God we have highly competent politicians like Dwayne Seymour Kenneth Bryan Bernie Bush Sabrina Turner Heather Bodden etc etc etc ad infinitum. We are truly blessed.
This guy is the face of failure in the civil service yet continues to get over promoted. WHY?
Probably found a skeleton early on (or was brought in to help with one) and rode that wave for the next 20 years.
Ahhhh, the saga continues, the Teflon don Eric Bush rolls on always upward regardless of the transgressions.
Franz and the Gov are correct in their bugle call and trumpet blast that we now have a “World Class” civil service.
Unfortunately, our once proud civil service has descended into the most incompetent and corrupt civil service this country has ever had and yes joined the other “World Class” civil servants worldwide.
Let’s look at the new “world-class” criteria for promotion which is trumpeted by one requirement “go along to get along” make 2+2 be anything you want other than 4.
So here is Eric Bush’s sterling record in the civil service
Joined the police force-he was fired
Joined Cayman Airways HR with no qualifications or experience in HR second fiasco
Joined the civil service and was given responsibility for the security cameras project -we all know the result was not good, third fiasco
Given responsibility for the Prison fourth fiasco
Given responsibility for Fire Service fifth fiasco first time headed by non-Caymanian
Sent to London office to escape accountability Another fiasco spent much time and money entertaining.
Returned to Cayman to head up new Ministry another fiasco, AG says clearly he broke the law in her report. The report covered up by DG and Gov concentrates to divert public attention to the leak of the report while silently constructing a promotion and escape hatch, for Eric Bush
Watch this space XXXX he is likely to be the next DG given his diversity of incompetence across the various Ministries,
I challenge the Gov and DG to publish Mr. Eric Bush’s academic qualifications.
Don’t forget leading Planning in the case against the NCC and losing, wasting government funds in the process. he should have made the CPA follow the law. that’s his job
Have you ever heard of the Peter Principle and the the concept of being “promoted to a level of incompetence”? This is the way it typically goes in Cayman, and not just in the Civil Service.
The mediocrity continues. How are these people still employed? If this was the private sector, they would be out on their butts.
Mr E Bush has failed in so many departments but Teflon don’t stick
excuse the political incorrectness…but civil service is a social welfare work placement programme for poorly educated locals who are unable to get real jobs in the private sector…
if we can’t face facts we will never find the solution
Eric Bush is a lodge man and DG Manderson’s BFF so the principles of accountability do not apply to him given his checkered history. He is living proof that the world class civil service that Manderson preaches about is a very expensive myth where incompetence is rewarded and excuses for these expensive delays and mistakes are the soup de jour