Winspear bows out warning of unsustainable finances
(CNS): As Auditor General Sue Winspear prepares to bid farewell to Cayman this weekend after more than eight years scrutinising, but also trying to help with, public finances, she has published one of her most damning reports to date, stressing the long-term unsustainability of government spending and concerns about its ability to meet future financial commitments.
Winspear said that over the last six years, expenditure increased at double the rate of earnings. With the growing debt, its future liabilities as well as an ageing population, the Cayman Islands Government has to start managing its finances for the longer term, she warned
On Wednesday, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) released the report, Long-Term Financial Sustainability, the third of its Improving Financial Accountability and Transparency series. The report highlighted some extremely worrying trends and failures by the government to properly cost out policies and projects for the longer term. Above all, the strain on the public purse from healthcare costs and public sector pay is placing the future of other public service provision at risk.
Winspear points out that while the CIG is running a surplus and has done so for four out of the last six years between 2018 and 2023, those surpluses are declining. Public spending grew by over 51%, while revenues increased by just 25%. Over the same period the government increased spending on healthcare by a whopping 74%.
“I am disappointed that there continues to be poor budgeting for tertiary healthcare. Despite highlighting this in 2020, significant overspending continues, requiring annual supplementary budgets,” Winspear said.
Public debt currently stands at around $453 million, which is comparatively low compared to debt held by other countries in this region, but it is likely to increase over the next two years as a result of the UPM’s commitment to a host of grandiose projects. The CIG is also facing long-term liabilities for civil servants’ pensions and post-retirement healthcare of about $2.7 billion that is not accounted for on the official ledger.
“Government’s debt level and other long-term liabilities are rising and this will affect its financial sustainability and may affect its ability to deliver public services in the medium to longer term,” Winspear warned in a release about her last report to the CIG.
“Debt more than doubled to $453 million by the end of 2023. The Government also plans to borrow a further $150 million to pay for capital and infrastructure projects, such as schools. This could put strain on future finances. This could mean that future Governments may need to prioritise repaying debt and liabilities over delivering services and other policies and programmes in the longer term,” she added.
In the next eight years, the number of people aged over 65 in Cayman could increase to almost 30% of the population. Unless the CIG does something about the failing, inadequate private health insurance system that is making as much profit as the government is subsidising, it may no longer be able to pick up the unaffordable healthcare tab for the under or uninsured.
“These population changes will further increase healthcare, and social welfare, costs in the longer term,” the auditor said.
In the report, Winspear and her team articulate a number of factors fuelling the increasing expenditures and the failure to cost out legislative changes and new policies or projects in the long term. She warned that all new laws or changes can have significant cost implications and the government should have a clearer understanding of the future cost implications.
While the UPM has certainly added to the spending in recent years, the problem stretches back to previous administrations. In a report Winspear published some five years ago, she warned that the government was not costing out its policies and legislative changes.
The biggest example was the amendments to the Public Authorities Act, which cost millions of dollars but have not been factored into the government’s future budgets. Winspear previously recommended that the CIG estimate and fund the cost of implementing the PAA as well as develop a pay strategy for the entire public sector and factor this into its budgets. However, this has not been done.
Another major financing problem for the government is the overall payroll for the growing government headcount as it rolls out more and more services, new policies and initiatives, all of which require people to do the work. Public sector pay increased more than 50% over the six years that the report spans, reaching $650 million in 2023. Some of the increase is because of pay awards to better align salaries with the cost of living, but the public sector has also grown by around 20%.
Issuing a clear warning that the government must think about the sustainability of public finances when shaping policy, the auditor warned that while the long-term prognosis is of significant concern, the short-term budgeting isn’t great either.
While various MPs have raised the question of the government’s financial sustainability on both sides of the House in recent years, Winspear said in the report that her team could not find any evidence that the “risks have been formally identified, documented or quantified”.
The OAG made six recommendations to better manage, understand and address the CIG’s long-term sustainability and the inherent risks by estimating and budgeting for the financial consequences of policy commitments, strategies, plans and legislation — which appear to be perfectly reasonable asks. However, the administrative arm of government has only partially accepted the list of recommendations.
In a press release responding to this latest damning report, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson, who heads the civil service, said that where applicable and feasible, the recommendations would be implemented.
“Government will consider the issues identified in the report and, where necessary, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development will take the lead in outlining strategies to address them,” he said.
“The Civil Service remains committed to supporting the elected government in the effective implementation of policy decisions and we will continue to improve our approaches to promote further growth, sustainability and the development of our country and people,” Maderson added.
See Winspear’s report below:
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Do our Customs, Immigration & Border Control, our RCIPS Royal Cayman Islands Police and our Coast Guard need more help recovering Government Revenue and Reducing Crime by hiring new recurits????
Sure they do; and below is just one reality that is a really good example where our Cadet Core and CI Regiment High School and College Students could be paid a full time salary or $1,500 per month plus College Tution and Book Fees to help out by work alongside our Uniform Service Members in government to increase the number of employees, better collect governments revenue, tackle and reduce crime
It is estimated that the Construction Fraud highlighted was a loss to the UK Government HMRC and Taxpayers of £22 million.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/construction-industry-people-jailed-ps22-million-fraud-against-taxpayers
Can our CI Regiment and Cadet Core play a more active role by working alongside our Uniform Service Members while studying to resolve some of our country’s problems????
Sure they can…………
Hey Cayman! remember getting rid of Marco for a mouth piece?? yeah, the reaping soon come. vote for people who can do the job, not because you like them.
Let’s fix the housing crisis by delivering a long-term plan for housing
The UK have recognized and identified solutions to build 90,000 affordable homes to keep up with the immigration management of there population growth and increased migrant numbers
https://www.housing.org.uk/our-work/a-long-term-plan-for-housing/lets-fix-the-housing-crisis/
They have also recognized the shortage of affordable housing and the high cost associated with housing that reduces the standard of living for many who is financially strained, overextended and spend most of there income on housing acomodations, rather than savings or investments that force some citizens to have to rely on different benefits in order to make ends meet.
Our Cayman Islands Government can learn a lot from this UK Urban Planning Structure that create a combination of growth in both jobs and housing at the same time, to fix or appease the growing immigration population mangement problem
The Cayman Islands could easily create a strategic plan to build 500 new affordable homes in each district that cost under $150,000 each, in order to keep up with the demand of the growing middle and lower income class families seeking decent affordable accomodations and build 150 new affordable homes in each district every year
For the past two decades, house prices have gone up much faster than wages, in fact some wages has gone down and rents are now at record levels leaving hundreds of people spending more and more of their income on housing accomodations.
The welfare system has not kept pace either and are pushing more people into poverty as a result of their housing costs.
More and more people are now facing big increases in mortgage costs as interest rates rise and as we have seen, that 1 piont or 1% interest rate increases on your mortgage can easily increase monthly mortgage payments by $200 to $300 a month
With a Long-Term Urban Planning Strategic Plan, our government can ensure that housing costs rise more slowly than incomes do, so that housing will become more affordable again like they did during the 1980’s over the next 4 to 8 years
you started with the UK and I zoned out. UK has a failing model and their multiple government turnover is a sign of that. it seems there’s a few people who want cayman to follow suit with the UK while their citizens pack up and run to the Caribbean and displace locals because they screwup their own country.
This reminds me of the time Arden McLean said he did not know whether it was mismanagement or misappropriation but something was “missing”
It had something to do with the airport project. I think somebody spend more without Cabinet approval. I remember I was drinking water and nearly choked laughing when I heard it on the radio.
Someone once bought a fancy watch with a government credit card without cabinet approval too.
Remember that?
For the life of me I cannot figure out what Jefferson does! The Chief Financial Officers, who manage the money for all the different Ministries, report to Franz — who is not a CPA, and is expected to lead the civil service who are not allowed to blow the whistle even when the train is derailing;
The Governor, who is the only one who can amend the laws that govern the civil and public service, is MIA; and
The MPs question the spending during Finance Committee, but money pits like the GT Revitalization project, the Cayman Brac High School and M. Bush’s upcoming West Bay school still get approved. Meanwhile, you go to Foster’s and spend KYD 150 on three bags of groceries. What in the royal cluster*#% is going on?!
Too many snouts at the trough, lining their own pockets at the expense of Cayman, Caymanians and their future.
Non-existent oversight, lip service paid to regulatory and anti-corruption investigative depts filled with over the hill expats taking a salary for not rocking the boat.
Profligate spending, massive debt, declining quality of life, and massive increases in the cost of living – that is the outcome of the ‘experience’ that the PPM and its ‘new’ trough buddy converts brag about.
Juju just borrowed another $150Million.
A parting gift…which WE will have to repay.
NEW GOVERMENT REVENUE STREAM
Its been said that the US Government Debt is also growing faster than the amount of revenue they are able to generate and collect and that the US President Thrump is not going to allow the US Economy to fail and go bankrupt, which is the primary reason he reducing and assessing all budgets
Here in the Cayman Islands, our government can do the same thing to aviod our government and our country from failing to honour its future debts by creating NEW revenue streams like issuing Treasury Bonds and loaning those funds to the National Housing Trust at 5% to build 3,000 Affordable Homes, issue National Housing Trust 30 & 40 year Long Term Loans with a Fixed Interest Rate of 8% for those homes with a Reserve Fund of $300m to handle the expected Home Foreclosurers that are on the way
This would allow the National Housing Trust to create a NEW GOVERNMENT REVENUE STREAM of income to be able to assist the Cayman Islands Government with receiving and growing its revenue or income to be able to continue paying its future debts
The interesting thing about the National Housing Trust offering a Low Fixed Interest Rate, is that 1 piont or 1% added to your mortgage could easily increase someones monthly mortgage payments by $200 to $300 per month
Daily Senior Citizen Community Center Programs
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.plusscommunities.com/blog/68-assisted-living-activities-for-seniors%3fformat=amp
Why not introduce a cheaper alternative to Senior Citizen Homes with a daily Senior Citizen Community Center Program at the Community Centers where seniors can go to on a daily basis to gather with and be around other senior cutizens, receive seminar discussions, lectures and assistance from professionals like:
• Doctors on healthy eating and living habitts
• Pensioners on managing thier pension
• Bankers on Financing & Inveatment options
• Insurance Companies on insurance options
• Lawyers to provide advice & assistance with Wills
• Play board games, dominos, cards and checkerds
• Go on hikes and tours to the island attractions
• Receive a Free Meal, Fruits, Salads, Drinks & a Hair Cut
School Buses could easliy be organized and arranged to pick up these seniors from there homes and drop them back home on a daily basis after doing there school bus routines
https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/financial-hardship-for-vi-families-growing-cost-of-care-for-elderly
WTF Send that your damn Government! Get McKeewa and all in the trough to produce their finances, double dipping, prockaimi g they cannot bills blah blah and pay for the seniors..and then put the lot of them in Dog City! Seniors are not the problem and find your post patronising and condescending!
During the Great Depression in the 1930’s, the world witnessed countries that was financially strained, faced high un-employment from mass lay off’s and businesses closing coupled with mass migrations of people in search of a better life, running from crime or just simply looking for work
The Great Depression explained in 11 minutes
https://youtu.be/gqx2E5qIV9s?si=AFeePecpskdeemSj
What happened all those years ago is no different from what the World is expericing today. Today technology has replaced people jobs making some jobs re-dundant
To bring those events closer to home right here in the Cayman Islands, our population has grown faster than we were able to build affordable, apartments and create jobs to prepare for this rapid population growth.
While our past leaders were aware of all these past and present events, our government agencies, there daily task, responsibilities and oporations got overwhelmed with a rapid outpaste and unplanned Urban Development to prepare for this growth just like other countries did
However, the warning signs painted by Ms Winspear clearly equipts us with the knowledge now for long term 30 and 40 year planning; meaning that our island has only seen the fruitful planned developments for the wealthy with no or not much Urban Planning for the middle and lower class
In otherwords, an equailibrum need to be reached on proper Urban Planning and Immigration Population Management by building more affordable homes, creating jobs and preparing daily in-expensive Community Center Activities for our aging seniors rather than sending them to a Seniors Citizen Home or appionting someone to take care of them
The Adeptus Ridiculous Activates
INCOMING TRANSMISSION: SOURCE—CAYMAN NEWS SERVICE. STATUS—HIGHLY PREDICTABLE YET STILL ALARMING.
The Lady of the Office of the Auditor General, Senior Engineer Winspear, has abandoned her post. She leaves behind a grim proclamation of unsustainable finances, a warning as clear as the wailing klaxons aboard a doomed voidship. And yet, like all warnings in this forsaken isle, it shall be promptly ignored by those who believe that wishing away reality is an acceptable fiscal strategy.
For years, Winspear stood as the last sane guardian at the gates of economic catastrophe, striving to hold back the tide of lunacy. She toiled to maintain the delicate balance, ensuring that the island’s finances remained tethered to some semblance of logic. But no longer. The tide has risen too high. The cogitators of financial prudence have been overridden. The fools at the helm have dismissed her concerns one time too many. And so, rather than continue the futile struggle against reckless spending and abyssal incompetence, she has made the most rational decision possible: to leave before the reactor goes critical.
And what now? Who shall replace her? A steward of financial stability? A master of economic discipline? No. We shall receive a servitor! A compliant bureaucratic drone, its only function to rubber-stamp ruinous policies while nodding enthusiastically at every deranged fiscal proclamation.
Meanwhile, the island’s ruling factions—the Waaagh-minded UPM Orks and the PPM Genestealer Cultists—continue their unholy war over who can plunder the most before the collapse. With Winspear gone, they are now completely unshackled from the constraints of reason. Their plans shall multiply, their ambitions grow ever more ludicrous, and their spending shall escalate until the treasury is naught but an empty husk.
And in the shadows, Dart, the C’tan of Economic Ruin, leans back upon his throne of debt, smirking in satisfaction. For each foolish policy enacted, each warning dismissed, each act of fiscal vandalism brings him closer to the moment he relishes most—the grand implosion.
The Adeptus Ridiculous issues this decree:
The final bulwarks of sanity are collapsing.
The reckoning will not be a question of “if,” but “when.”
Prepare yourselves, citizens, for when the treasury’s last cog turns and the final reserves are drained, you will hear the whisper of inevitability:
“We warned you.”
TRANSMISSION ENDS.
When you put corrupt, uneducated foxes in the hen house what do you expect
Astounding that revenue tops $1 BILLION for a tiny rock with 80K population and we are going broke.
This is all fake news to make our leaders look bad. Good riddance to her and have a nice trip home. We do not need no auditor.
5:46 pm, how stupid can u be ?
You don’t know as our government is helping us. Praise to you Miss Julie!
Seems like pretty dam stupid.
To 5:46pm: Whatever substance you took, please give it up. It is making you write utter foolishness.
You could certainly do with some lessons in grammar.
11/10 trolling; would kek again
5:46 Stupid is as stupid does …….. I am assuming you are awaiting assessment and admission to the mental health facility? What an idiotic and brainless statement.
Which was built by Honorable Seymour!
That is a lie, Pinocchio! He was too busy driving into bulldozers on well lit roads. Oh, and may I suggest that you have applied a very liberal use of the word ‘Honourable’.
Embarrassing for a global financial center. This plus beneficial ownership disclosures do not bode well for the future. When our competitors wise-up and start highlighting the fiscal situation and UBO regime updates, it is going to get interesting.
Likely our competitors are in much worse shape and many already have direct taxes.
Thank you Mrs Winspear for your principled professional service to Cayman.
So sorry that your advice has so regularly been ignored by those whose snouts were so deep in the public trough that your pearls of fiscal wisdom were cast aside.
Wishing you a happy and Healthy future.
Unfortunately, most Caymanians never plan for long-term, even 5 years is considered long term to Caymanians. You ask a Caymanian ”well, why you selling that land, your kids could have it and when they older land will be harder to get”; a common answer is ”well I won’t be alive to see it”…
Same mentality our MPs have about when the crap hits the fan – ”well I won’t be alive to see it”
Without material restoration of governance, transparency, and anti-corruption, the prospect of a negative FATF review in 2026 should worry everyone reliant upon the primary financial pillar of the Cayman Islands, Financial Services. We must not fail the review next year, by electing the wrong governments of the past. They are what got us, and hold us at the brink of viability, and seem beholden to corrupt third parties.
Sue Winspear is legit
Cayman desperately needs more people of character and integrity like Sue and less like the current politicians who are lacking in both character and integrity. We can only hope her words are heeded, though the odds are seriously against us with the criminal enterprise we call the current government.
Let me in there! I’ll start slashing government jobs and trimming the fat!
In fact, everyone has until the end of the week to send me an email listing 5 accomplishments they’ve had this week! Or else!!
Blow it out your ass, Elon. You probably did/do eff all when you were/ are working.
Stay over there with Trumpy!
Fart, fart!
Like your crap see through tried to slash the President of Ukraine today..no chance, just showed exactly to the world the shites tou are!
This is what happens when you have successive governments do nothing to improve public education so that Caymanians have a better chance at high income earning careers in the private sector. We just continue to expand an already bloated public sector and simply absorb more and more Caymanians. That has been the model for years. Keep allowing expatriate labor to dominate high-paying private sector jobs, collect work permit fees, absorb undereducated Caymanians into the public sector, rather than educate them to a high standard so they can take advantage of our booming economy.
…booming economy?
Ever expanding financial services market, largest expat population in our history, more overnight tourists than ever before, new high rises, new hotels, high GDP, low unemployment….what other signs would you like to see?
Proof of no debt.
‘We just continue to expand an already bloated public sector and simply absorb more and more Caymanians.’
‘largest expat population in our history,..’
Which is it?
Perhaps it is all part of a master plan to rid Cayman of all poor people and become an elite place for the rich. The politicians are fitting into it nicely by lining their deep pockets with fat pay checks, ignoring the pension crisis, and caymanians not of their status, the old will die off poor and the young leave Cayman for a place they can afford to live.
I no one person who will be very Overjoyed to see her departure. No more surprise audits for the world class civil service embarrassing Lord Fleecing and his consigliere Eric B Rekdem de Budget crew !
All Hail Ms. Winspear! Really! She deserves accolades for the job she has done. Thank you Ma’am. But also for having the patience and professionalism to remain.
Her efforts are appreciated by all except CIG politicians, Deputy Governor, Chief Officers and Departments Heads. Morons mostly!
Godspeed Ms. Winspear!
You know the saddest part about this article and report, none of the recommendations will be taken seriously, and this little island will inevitably become a welfare failed state, similar to some of our counterparts in the Caribbean region. The younger generation who choose to remain here will bare the burden of these inexcusable actions of destroying the country, by way of corrupt politicians having their way. Welcome to Hell, make yourself comfy and right at home.
Thank you Sue Winspear. You have done an amazing job for the Cayman Islands and you go out in style.
This is ridiculous and now we will have a vote on what could be one of the largest capital works projects ever!
Listen Cayman, we need to VOTE NO to cruise berthing!
I don’t care what PPM/Kenneth BRyan say this will cost Caymanians!
VOTE NO!
Wait until you get details of the $200Million prison resort being worked on behind closed doors.
The piers could be said to offer some return on investment, but a woke prison and its annual multi million dollar carrying cost…just a waste of public funds to help bankrupt us.
Define “woke” for the rest of us who may not understand it, please.
That would be where concern for the comforts ,feelings and welfare of the convicted criminals, exceed those rights extended to the victims of the crime.
Do you have insider knowledge? Have you seen or read the business cases? Has the final business case even been concluded? Without that final business case the costs are speculative.
The new prison project is not the major concern for us Caymanians. Worry more about the continuing damage to our beautiful environment and the carnage likely to be bestowed upon our marine ecosystem by a grotesque cruise port. There will be no ROI on that because everything that makes our waters and coastlines the best in the world will be destroyed ……. we will be paying for that with our futures, our customs, and our heritage.
$200,000,000 plus annual running costs should be a concern to all of us who will have to pay for it.
11.56.. all good until we are saddled repaying a massive loan for something that doesn’t produce any revenue.
Also something that will be an expensive holiday home for criminals who will have no fear of incarceration , which will be more comfortable than having to make an honest living .
However, if it provides an environment, and services that help to reduce crime (and the cost of crime), then that is an investment worth making. God knows the current prison facilities (and to be fair, the other arms of the criminal and social justice system) are sadly lacking in the facilities to do properly joined up work to effectively impact upon criminality.
Arguably, a new prison should have lower year on year operating costs and help to create a safer Cayman; something we should all want to see.
Nobody knows how much the new prison will cost at this point. It’s not the biggest issue facing us, in my humble opinion.
How many times must we the public tell the deaf government we don’t want a damn cruise berthing facility??! The value of a cruise passenger compared to overnight visitors is totally negligible (so even economically it’s not justifiable, what is Bryan even supporting this on? Does he think we’re all idiots?) and we get a raw deal with the cruise liners anyway, and forget about the environmental damage which we already know these politicians don’t care about either! What a load of BS!!
If you believe the rules and regulations that govern the civil and public service (not the same thing) need to be updated/changed, then write to the Governor, because neither the Premier or Franz can do it. Only her, with approval from the Foreign Office: GovernorsOffice.Cayman@fcdo.gov.uk
Those who wish to continue flushing the future of Cayman down the toilet have an easy choice – vote for any PPM politician or anyone who stayed with the UPM rump after 1 January 2025. That will do it.
and what are the other options?…independents or a bunch ppm wannabes?
Thank you to Ms. Winspear and her staff for telling it like it is. I apologise for the fact that we Caymanians elected so many financially ignorant short-sighted self-interested politicians. Hopefully by April enough people will understand what you are saying so that we can rid ourselves of these profligate fools.
People of Cayman (of which I am one): READ WHAT SHE SAID. Government’s endlessly skyrocketing spending must stop. Otherwise, Cayman as we know it will become just a memory, and Cayman will turn into a jurisdiction with endless tax-and-spend, just like most of the other 200 countries of the world. At that point, the “Cayman miracle” will have vanished, and so will the finance sector that sustains us.
Shut up, Honorable Seymour, Bryant & JOCC know how to run things. Thank goodness they will all stay in power and steer us forward to great wealth & prosperity.
It’s genuinely difficult to work out if you’re a troll or serious. Your use of the ampersand and correct(ish) punctuation makes me think the former. If not, then heaven help you.
With Mrs Winspear’s departure , we can expect the Port Authority board to enjoy even more lavish parties and fireworks celebrations.
Thank you Sue.
The conduct of our government has been outrageous. The disregard for our future, shameful. The civil service has too willingly participated – too often for its own benefit. Some of the seemingly willful disregard of duties for these Islands may even cross the criminal threshold.
This hole we all now find ourselves in is a direct result of those governing us over the last 15 years. It has worsened in recent years. The healthcare burden is only one aspect of the significant costs being imposed on us by those whose job it is to serve us and act in OUR best interests.
Remember that when you go to the Polls Cayman. You are potentially one bad decision away from committing your children to living in a failed state.
And Governor. Where have you been? Were you not paying attention?
What part of the civil service is bound by different laws to keep quiet don’t you get? If the voters want said laws to be updated or changed, then write to the Governor and lobby for it. She is the only one that can change them. GovernorsOffice.Cayman@fcdo.gov.uk The Premier, or Franz or no one else can do it. Only her, with approval from the Foreign Office.
The Governor is busy discussing things with Julianna & Jon-Jon. They all are really hard at it.
LOL. They already reserved a special place for this report, on a shelf in the basement of the Glasshouse.
Buying elections with government money is expensive. Think schools in the Brac, Roads that dont help with traffic etc.
Sue Winspear for Premier!!!
‘In a press release responding to this latest damning report, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson, who heads the civil service, said that where applicable and feasible, the recommendations would be implemented.’
..where applicable and feasible…??
Yeah right, nowhere and never as usual!
Franz and his cronies need to be fired for cause. He has zero shame and should just retire now the poor results all happened on his watch. The buck stops with Franz Manderson!
Duh – what you mean Bro? Lets do the walk run.
So fast forward 10 years and Cayman will be a giant welfare state which will force taxation of residents. Those that can will leave and Caymanians will be left wondering who is going to pay for the gross mismanagement of the golden goose.
Some of the mismanagement appears so bad as to potentially even warrant a criminal investigation. Maladministration can be a serious offence at common law. There can seemingly be no legitimate excuse for some of what has happened. We should be demanding accountability.
Remember that this is self-inflicted:. Caymanians made the decision to vote for politicians who in turn enabled these policies. I have little sympathy for both.
Define Caymanian. A whole bunch of the people responsible for this are certainly not originally from here.
Exactly. And, despite this fact, people will turn around and call us xenophobic and hateful for wanting a clear distinction between actual Caymanians and immigrant status holders.
Don’t worry, the mighty Jon- Jon and his sidekick Kenny are on top of it.
You’re spot on. The mismanagement of hard won, ample financial resources over the last few years has been breathtaking. $2000 to each civil servant as Xmas gift is just a minor example of this ludicrous government spending. Millions, upon millions of $ wasted by imbeciles who pay literally zero attention to the warnings issued by far more qualified persons. Austerity and direct taxation is coming people, whether be over the next parliament if the books are actually scrutinised or kicked further down the road it looks inevitable.
Those that could already left
I hope the people of North Side are reading this report as your representative continues to pave roads costing millions of dollars and just because he can.
Irresponsible spending! Spending increased 51% and revenues only by 25%.
Jay can’t promise you anything now as the UPM government is broken apart and he is left to run as an independent.
never have we had more $$$ and achieved so little…
a tragic waste that will haunt cayman in the years to come
No I disagree; all our leaders have nice new big cruisers to ride around in, we have a wonderful new school going up in the Brac and look at our beautiful new Scranton park. Plus all the other give sways things are mighty cheery mate! Just wait till we start the port project, then things will really be on a roll. Whoopee
will keep asking….
How many recommendations of the miller-shaw or ernst & young reports have been implemented?
None and why should they?
jeez i fear the day the music stops
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 caymanians on island from being elected…
welcome to wonderland.
shameful but totally expected from the arrogance and aloofness of cig.
any comment Mrs governor?
any comment chamber of commerce?
Wtf does the governor or the chamber have to do with this?
The chamber rips government all the time for being as useless as they are.
Last time the governor flexed his muscles everyone starting losing it and calling for independence.
bring back dan dugay.
the cowboy!….who can smell a pig from a mile away
any enemy of mckeeva deserves national heroe recognition!
Oh ffs, 9:36.