Church and Christian NPO get $1.65M of public cash
(CNS): During its last meeting of this administration, Cabinet approved a reshuffling of public finances and some additional spending to grant money to a church and a religious charity as well as extra funds for several government projects, according to the official brief summary of the proceedings. On Tuesday, 25 February, the minority UPM government’s inner circle of just five ministers voted to create a new appropriation for the Chapel Church of God in West Bay and the Manna Foundation based in Savannah.
Cabinet voted to create the executive appropriation TP 127 — Assistance for Community Enrichment and Wellbeing under the premier’s Ministry of Education — in the form of a grant of CI$900,000 to Chapel Church of God (West Bay), which also received $450,000 in February last year to help build the new church and hurricane shelter. This latest gift from the government was taken from the 2025 allocation for the West Bay High School.
Under this new transfer payment, Cabinet also gave the Manna Foundation $750,00, which appears to have come from the same appropriation TP 127, created under the Public Management and Finance Law for general capital projects.
No details of what this cash was for have been revealed by the government, all of which was voted on days before the “period of sensitivity” ahead of the general election, during which the government has been advised not to make any new policy decisions or spend public money that was not already budgeted for and voted on by parliament.
In a long list of reallocations and new money, the five ministers doled out cash for a number of allocations under the premier’s portfolios. The expansion of the Cayman Brac Sports Complex received another CI$500,000, as did District Adminion’s allocation for public parks, taken from money allotted for roads on the Sister Islands.
Cabinet also reshuffled money in the tourism ministry, taking $1 million from the allocation for the stalled Waterfront Tourism Experience and another $1 million from Sports and Cultural Tourism Programmes Assistance in order to give $2 million more for the Scranton Park.
As well as a $1.2 million settlement given to Anna Evans’ family, as reported by CNS last week, Cabinet created another executive appropriation, OE 105, of more than $2.8 million to settle other undisclosed claims relating to the health ministry. This came from the Public Health budget using money not spent in 2024 and from 2025. No indication has been given as to why this money was required and what the settlement relates to.
See the full Cabinet meeting summary below:
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We need a shelter that will allow pets.
Priorities, priorities!
Meantime
Despite the recent Compass article where some “report” assures GIG that eartquake building codes are applied and enforced in Cayman, I am sure they are not! Neither applied nor enforced. There are no even geoengineers in cayman to do the enforcement.
Caymanians live under the false sense of security. AND NOBODY CARES, Other than Local attorney Colin McKie who recently submitted a FOI request to obtain a copy of a seismological report that was commissioned by the Cayman Islands government. I TRULY HOPE HE IS NOT satisfied with the report’s conclusion about buildings safety in Cayman.
I’d hate to see collapsed and structurally damaged buildings in Cayman.
FYI: Steel moment frame buildings rely on the connections between horizontal beams and vertical columns to stay intact during earthquake shaking, keeping the skeleton of the building together. (Steel moment frames are different than steel-braced frames, which add in diagonal braces to create triangular shapes).
Questions:
* Recently built High-rises, schools, hospitals. How are they framed?
* Residential buildings and old high-rises, schools and hospitals. How are they framed?
* After an earthquake, hospitals need a robust continuity system encompassing backup power and water, communication protocols, patient evacuation procedures, and contingency plans for service continuity, ensuring essential functions and patient care remain operational. Which Cayman hospitals have formal, comprehensive continuity systems or protocols for continuity of care?
Who conducts the inspections throughout construction to ensure compliance? What the inspector’s expertise in Seismic bracing, seismic dampers, structural reinforcement, ductile materials.
Exactly 61 years and 1 day ago the strongest ever Earthquake in North America took place in Anchorage,AK. 9.3 lasted almost 5 minutes.
There are so many natural and man made hazards in Cayman. Yet money being spend everywhere but to prepare for the worst. Unfathomable.
I’ll never forget JOCC flying around with suitcases full of cash and giving it away as if it is her own money.
If not a devastating hurricane or earthquake, then a major fire can devastate Grand Cayman and kill many people. Yet, GIG spends as if there is no tomorrow.
Buildings density, including hotels density such as WestIn expansion with no access to parking or footways is a recipe for a major disaster. If u think that is not going to happen you are a fool.
Dear Mr Cumber:
1 I’m not a parishioner there, or at any church, but I believe in and follow God. and I know this church does much good on a shoestring budget (All local churches have also missed the Communications n Marketing Train it seems).
2 This district has No Community Civic Center. No dedicated hurricane shelter ie insufficient spaces (I worked at the school hall next door after Ivan.) Thanks No Thanks, MPs of generations.
3. Next door is Sir John Cumber school..isn’t it named for your family? Aren’t they still given special status and privilege all around?
4. This area is the furthest from the seashore, and adjacent to the health clinic
5. It is one of 2 churches that stand at the gates of Hell Road
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I rest my case.
The BS nonsense of religious mythology would never gain the power christendom without the military, police, and other government controls that stole the lands and laborers of other people. And so it continues
If they’re going to dole out cash like that, and while we’re on the subject of charity and shelter, why not give a few bucks to the Humane Society, One Dog, and other NPOs like those?
Their clients don’t vote.
Turn one of the churches into a Shelter for animals and hurricanes. That way people with pets could go there in case of emergency and the poor animals in the humane shelter aren’t flooded out! Turn the grounds into a dog park for all to use.
and they still haven’t the money to repair the WB public dock, why???
Churches should get nothing. Just one big scam and an insult to the tax payers who can’t even get concessions for their homes! Not to mention they tax their own congregation in the form of tithes. Ask for an audit and see how much the preacher gets paid per month.
The West Bay Church of God Chapel received “nation-building” funds from McKeeva before and returned them in the wake of the outcries during one of his scandals.
Turn the other cheek? Why accept the funds this time? Nothing has changed with McKeeva!
so did the sister church..
just opened as the new BT hurricane shelter
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I rest my case.
churches….a scam on the poor and uneducated….. and promoted/supported here by cig.
welcome to wonderland.
Many years ago the church asked for money and was going to be a shelter
from memory.
A. It was to close to the sea.
B. It had a sloped floor
C. It was to have fixed pews.
has any of this changed?
The isles that probity forgot.
I did a quick search and found the following:
Manna Foundation is NOT a registered NPO in the Cayman Islands at this time. Neither is Ebenezer Seventh-day Adventist Church.
https://www.ciregistry.ky/non-profit-organisations/non-profit-organisations-list/
However, they have a website and details can be found here:
https://ebenezeradventist.org/#learn-more
The Ebenezer flock currently meets in the George Town Primary School Hall, so I guess they can use the money to build their own church.
Only a fool, or crook, would hand over that amount of money to an entity that hasn’t been around long enough to file their NPO documents, much less establish a reputation of having done anything for the community.
Seems like on their website they spell “Mana” with only one “n”, although Manna Foundation is a registered company, just not a non-profit. If you want to give them money here is where it goes.
Beneficiary Name: The EGARS Members Association Beneficiary Bank: RBC Bank Beneficiary Account: 06975-1150598 Beneficiary Address: P.O. Box 469 Camana Bay, KY1-9006 Email: egars.association@gmail.com or ebenezersdatreasury@gmail.com
The Cayman Registry will give you a list of Directors, but I have no need to spend $60 to find that out.
Very frankly put, this is an utter disgrace. We have more than enough hurricane shelters Island wide to accommodate residents.
Not really Mr. Cumber but the timing is suspect. Why wait to the last days of an administration if this was such a necessity. The same church was given money a short time ago to complete the roof.
I am sure it was to help secure a few parishioners votes for neighbor who just happens to be running for reelection
Why didn’t the government tell the church leaders the same thing the church leaders tell their flock? “The Lord with provide”.
Wait a second, did they get the money from Lord Kenny?
From Lady Muck. They’re her flock
You go to Foster’s and struggle to come out with three bags for $190 and then read that you contributed a couple thousand to fund some church. WTF?!
Separation of church and state also applies to them being self funded. Next we will see the ever increasing Muslim population wanting a free mosque complete with super load speaker systems to wail the call to prayer.
Religion is a social construct designed to control and profit from the masses through the power of fear and false promise of life after death.
Creates the whole universe, but needs me to pay duty on food to provide these handouts or else “I deserve to burn in hell” as my pastor told me when I said I was leaving the church due to the blatant hypocrisy of these so-called “godly” people here.
Newsflash, life itself is a man made social construct, it isn’t limited to just religion.
Lol the word perhaps, but not life itself.
Life evolved, it wasn’t created. Matter cannot be destroyed nor created.
Cry me a river like I did after walking out of a university-level lectures on life for years and had my worldview flipped, thankfully in the correct orientation.
Life as in living. You are raised in the social constructs of getting an education, car house family etc. Days to celebrate, mothers day, fathers day international this and that day (all to increase commerce). Shopping malls became the new temples, it is a consumer society entirely built on social constructs. You make me laugh with ‘matter cannot be created or destroyed’. You don’t see that itself is a man made social construct. Man has made ‘laws’ as explanations, but there are often alternatives eg Newtonian laws vs Einstein theories. Opening with ‘life evolved and wasn’t created’ is a false start to begin with, the debate is infinite.
Seventh Day Adventists… AKA voters for CIG for the most part.
Churches should self-fund. Period!
“Manna Found….who”?? Are these a new “self-help” con.., er, congregation? Seems they don’t have to help themselves as much now?!
People, wake up in April 30th and elect intelligent, ethical candidates over “experience” alone. Some of our most corrupt are too well “experienced”.
That’s my money. Isn’t it about time the public had more of a direct say in how our money is spent? Clearly our government officials can’t be trusted with it any longer. Anyone of the existing ones, and likely all of the ones putting themselves up for election now. Either no idea about anything and dumb as a brick, or lining their own pockets. Or both.
Churches should be self-funded.
Just imagine if we had our recently retired Auditor General as Premier!.
It only takes a few bought votes to change the outcome of an election in our tiny constituencies. This kind of money will buy a few dozen votes – another reason for moving to national elections so that crooked politicians have a harder time buying their way to political office using our money.
I am a pensioner. However I did not retire in Service which has caused me NOT to receive Cinico Coverage. I recently noted that Chris Saunders motion of over 65’s and under 18 to get Cinico Coverage effective Jan 2026. I think this is NOT right or fair. Why do have to wait again as some of us can or having health issues which will require medical attention. This motion should be with IMMEDIATE EFFECT. Seeing how the death rate has risen in Cayman this should be given priority. It’s not many of us who falls into this Category. I hope the New Govt changes it to with immediate effect. Our health is vital to all of us and many of us cannot afford an astronomical health insurance paying from our Widow’s Mite Pension. I am imploring the Govt to act quickly on this so those that fall into this Category will get their coverage instead of waiting around maybe indefinitely.
Absolutely right! They are complaining about HSA bills but yet give away millions to under the pretense of ‘church’. Further confirms they do not give a damn about the citizens of these Islands if you were not in ‘their’ service!
Why should taxpayers (mainly expats) pay for Caymanians’ medical costs? If you can’t afford it, you don’t deserve it.
I don’t see why every problem which Caymanians create must be solved by haemorrhaging taxpayers’ funds to fix it.
Genuine question!
No one downvoting this question has (so far) bothered to answer it. Here’s the first few words, so that you can copy and paste it to save you effort:
“Taxpayers (mainly expats) should pay for Caymanians’ medical costs because [INSERT COMPELLING REASONS HERE]”
Thanks in advance! /s
Pompous and patronising.
Again, no substantive answer. It’s beginning to look like you don’t have one.
I think you misunderstand. No one is saying all Caymanians should receive free health care paid for from taxes (however received). But our elderly and disabled, those unable to work, or who have already paid their way to society by working and contributing taxes their whole lives….they should be eligible to receive assistance with healthcare in old age. You must realise that premiums increase substantially with age. So when you get past 65, your premium can be well over $1000 a month, even more if you have a good policy. When you have no/little income, a load of bills still to pay, huge healthcare costs are impossible to meet. That results is endless anxiety, and our valued seniors not going to the doctor because they aren’t afford it, and suffering instead until they meet an early death.
No society should tolerate that.
Just wait until you get old and are in constant pain. I hope your lack of empathy changes as you realise for yourself.
>”But our elderly and disabled, those unable to work, or who have already paid their way to society by working and contributing taxes their whole lives….they should be eligible to receive assistance with healthcare in old age.”
Two points:
1.LOCALS DON’T PAY TAXES: YOUR OLD PEOPLE DIDN’T PAY IN, SO THEY DON’T DESERVE TO TAKE OUT. Approximately 30–35% of CIG’s revenue comes from import duties, making this the single largest contributor. Financial services fees — including company registration, fund licensing, and related regulatory fees — account for roughly 25–30%. Work permit fees contribute around 15–20%, reflecting the size of the expat workforce (who are the economy). Tourism-related income, including hotel taxes, cruise ship fees, and airport charges, provides about 10–15%. The remainder—around 5–10%—comes from stamp duties on property transactions, licensing fees, and miscellaneous charges. An estimated 80% of CIG funding originates from non-multigenerational Caymanians, primarily through work permit fees, import duties, tourism revenue, and financial services fees—most of which are driven by expatriates, residents, or visitors.
2. You’ve failed to address my substantive questions. Your statement above is a bare assertion, without any rationale. I have status (but I won’t be staying in Cayman on retirement: I’ll move o South America).
I won’t have the right to demand that the taxpayers in my future South American home pay for ME when I’m old: that’s my responsibility to save for. If I can’t afford it, that’s my problem.
The same applies if I did actually decide to stay in Cayman. Technically, I’m the same as a multigenerational Caymanian. Why should the next generation of workers in, say 20 years, be burdened with paying for me? (i.e. both expats and locals). If I can’t afford healthcare, that’s a “me” problem, not a “working age people” problem.
All people – Caymanians AND EXPATS – must live AND DIE within their means. To attempt to do otherwise is to invite economic catastrophe. Cayman is already massively abusing the financial services industry, and is (as someone else commented) slowly killing the golden goose.
Initial poster should look at what is happening in UK and other parts of the world to Seniors and disabled. Far too ignorant.
Go home and pay for your own seniors then, oh arrogant one.
Those ministers are now the PPM. They will bankrupt our country, while we struggle to keep up with the inflation and high cost of living. That money should have gone to helping Caymanians, the dump, the beach, etc. Shame on you PPM. Vote NO to PPM!
Isn’t this Mackeeva’s new church people Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists – he shares the money wherever he attends
Mckeeva doesn’t go there, and it’s not seven day Adventist.
What exactly is it then, we would all love to be enlightened?
I wonder how much CIG a has given to all the churches for “hurricane shelters” and this is from UDP disbursements. If it’s what I’m thinking we should have enough to accommodate at least 25,000 persons. Craziness!
You’re not thinking. You just exist in a mad and angry echo chamber.
I pray you escape from the brainwashing.
“I pray you escape from the brainwashing.”
The irony here is beyond palatable, hearing that from an indoctrinated tither who needs Atheists like me to fund your church.
if anyone’s unsure this kind of confirms no separation of church & state in Cayman, they’re praying and we’re paying..
Vote for Julianna, Kenneth, Dwayne (Jon Jon) and whoever the 5th person is and you really ought to have your head examined. This lot has done more damage in the last 6 months than most governments have done in their 4 year term. These lot do it right in your face Cayman, and some of you will still go out there and mark and X buy their name. Vote smarter, our Caribbean neighbors were once more prosperous than Cayman but look at what “leadership” has done to them. Get these lot out April 30th.
Corruption is on the agenda at every meeting.
Looks like all you have to do is add “and hurricane shelter” to get free cash from CIG. I am going to submit my stand alone golf simulator and hurricane shelter for a CIG grant. Will let you know how it goes.
The people of that Church are the most sweetest and genuine people. They deserve it!
Then tell them to pay for it.
The animals being sheltered and taken care of by the island’s animal welfare charities and NPOs are the most sweetest and genuine animals. They deserve it!
CNS – is that $75k or $750k for Manna?
CNS: $750k is what it says in the Cabinet meeting summary. It’s posted at the bottom if you want to check.
wow
Speechless
Amazing the amount of disgust and concern for a church or two getting a grant total of approximately $1.65 million.
Cayman gets a new hurricane shelter that would likely have cost ten times the amount of the grant had government built it.
In addition, most churches provide free counseling services to not just their congregants but to non-affiliated community persons as well.
Sick of all the church haters.
Not church haters, government funded church haters…..
Sick of all the hypocrisy and waste of money.
These ‘Churches’ should be audited for the duration of the project to show exactly how these funds are spent. everyday this government shows how little they care about the struggles of the average person. every ‘donation’ they hand out is taken from us through duties. none of these clowns should ever be a minister again.
Vote buying. Jeez, there’s no morality in any of this. Stinks to high heaven!
Yep..who’d have thunk …a church with no morality….next, they’ll be talking about Pastors and missing money ……
Absolutely shameful. You guys need a children’s home fit for purpose a facility for criminally insane. And your prison has been condemned twice I believe just to name a few issues that really need addressing.
‘..a facility for criminally insane.’
That would be full in a day with MPs, members of CIG, churches…et al
The Evans family actually received $2.5 million. $500000 per child.
I feel for her kids but there’s no proof the government was negligent. We could all use $2.5 million…
$2Million More for Scranton park…!!!
These people have no morals, no shame , no accountability, and now they’re called PPM.
Puppets Pursuing Money
Can’t take another 4 years of these same people.
Not voting for ANY PPM..
The parks and recreation for Cayman Brac was actually just for “Watering Place Gardens”. No other parks are being fixed up in the Sister Islands. She is building more bathrooms. She built calisthenics gym there as well. Paid for people from Germany to come and set it up.
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.
“Prevent the most qualified and successful people on island from being elected”… I’m guessing you’re referring to non generational Caymanians who don’t meet the criteria. If you think they would have our best interest at heart you’re a fool. We’re already outnumbered we can’t lose control of the government too.
Don’t waste your time: the anonymous coward you’re replying to is a jackass that never replies when they are called out for this BS copypasta ragebait. Don’t expect this time to be any different.
Let’s review the record after decades of so-called ‘multigenerational* Caymanian politicians’ (* you’re all expats, some just arrived earlier than others). In no particular order:
– The dump.
– “Five-mile (and shrinking) Beach”.
– The public ‘transport system’.
– Saunders’ transparent attempt to introduce garrison politics.
– Kenneth Bryan’s personal Cayman Airlines’ route to his Caribbean tourist board meetings in Barbados.
– Government departments taking each other to court! (Fnarr, fnarr, roll up and watch the incompetence – perhaps we could sell tickets to replace rapidly failing revenue in other areas?!)
– The insane cost of living, which discourages both tourists and financial services workers, thus undermining both pillars of the islands’ revenue.
– 1 in 4 children in Cayman starting primary school overweight (https://www.caymancompass.com/2023/05/03/1-in-4-kids-begin-primary-school-overweight).
– The number of MLAs who have beaten women.
– Jon Jon’s ‘lamp post drink driving cover-up’.
– Bush’s persistent criminality.
– Persistent education failure. 2021: “Almost 60% of Year 11 students miss 2021 exam targets*, 2023: “Only 27% of all students…reached the expected standards in all three core subjects of reading, writing and maths.” https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/05/report-shows-school-leaver-results-drop-from-peak (https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/04/almost-60-of-year-11-students-miss-2021-exam-targets). (Severe educational failure has been the norm for decades. See this Cayman Compass article from back in 2016. Nothing has changed. https://www.caymancompass.com/2016/01/21/barlow-education-versus-protection)
– More competently-run jurisdictions (yes, I know, it doesn’t take much) are stealing Cayman’s revenue. See this Financial Times article, “Singapore and Hong Kong vie to be the Caymans (sic) of Asia” which notes:
“The two cities have set up new fund structures to lure wealth away from traditional offshore financial centres… Singapore established the Variable Capital Company, a fund structure that allows a wide range of potential users to shelter large pools of capital in discreet, lightly taxed wrappers domiciled in a well-regulated financial centre… Investor take-up, particularly in Singapore, has been rapid. The bankers, fund managers and lawyers involved in setting them up say their impact could be far more widespread and more disruptive than previously imagined, drawing assets and expertise into the region… The new vehicles represent a direct challenge to traditional offshore finance centres whose success has been built on privacy and low taxes and whose economies are heavily dependent on the revenue generated by financial services… Singaporean authorities, frustrated at the tendency of local fund managers to register investment vehicles offshore rather than in Singapore itself, launched the rival VCC in 2020. It made it easier for overseas and domestic entities to register an investment vehicle in Singapore… For Singapore the rush to establish the new structures has been especially pronounced. “Prior to 2020 the vast majority of Singaporean managers had their funds in offshore jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, Mauritius or Luxembourg. Now the tables have turned,” says Mahip Gupta, a partner at Singapore-based Dhruva Advisors.“ Since the Variable Capital Company structure was introduced, most have chosen Singapore as their fund domiciliation hub.”” https://www.ft.com/content/88e20280-bb6e-4209-ae76-d7183c60ff62, 20 March 2023.
– They are succeeding, heralding the start of the slow death of the financial services sector: Cayman’s own Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) August 2022 warning that banks and trusts are moving off island: “Banks & Trusts: The total value of international banking assets domiciled in the Cayman Islands declined by 12.9 percent… Similarly, international liabilities domiciled locally fell by 13.0 percent…” (https://www.eso.ky/UserFiles/page_docums/files/uploads/the_cayman_islands_annual_economic_repor-7.pdf, page 27).
Cayman is in a downward spiral and doom loop, due to its dysfunctional politicians. Many expats are preparing contingency plans for when the MLA Moron Mob eventually finish the place off. Sadly, because of the political system, it’s probably beyond salvage. Make your money, and prepare to get out in 5-10 years at most.
It’s tragic, but no intelligent and honest Caymanian could ever be sensibly advised to go into politics, as that would trap them on this tiny, incompetently run spec of land in the middle of the Caribbean. Consequently, only bottom-feeders, knuckle-draggers and window lickers stand for election. Cayman’s best and brightest are busy developing the ability to work overseas, in proper careers. Anyone sensible is pursuing a profession which gives them global opportunities, e.g. IT or accountancy. By such choices the top e.g. 75% of Caymanians self-select out of politics. The bottom 25% of remaining oxygen thieves then engage in a race to the bottom to bribe people for ‘wotes’.
This is why Caymanian politicians are so uniquely awful (definitely incompetent, probably corrupt, often criminal). They have effectively excluded anyone decent from power. Every country has morons, criminals, thieves, and the congenitally dishonest among their politicians. Cayman’s problem is that political candidates seem to come *exclusively* from such people. This then exacerbates the problem identified at (2): capable, hardworking and intelligent Caymanians see the ‘death spiral’ direction of travel, and are determined to develop escape options focusing on global skills, not parochial, inbred local politics.
I don’t blame intelligent, honest and hard-working Caymanians for not getting involved in politics: I picked my job to look after my children, and any Caymanian with sense will do likewise, which means being internationally employable. That does, inevitably, however mean that you are led by the dregs. Ultimately, even though I have status, I can go home to Canada: most Caymanians aren’t as fortunate, which is why I highlight the problem.
I won’t lie—as a young Caymanian who recently returned from studying abroad and managed to secure an entry-level job in financial services, everything you’re saying is spot on. This country is in serious trouble, and most of my people are too emotional to face reality.
The public education system is in desperate need of an overhaul. When I suggested that we move away from the Caribbeanization of our public education system—replacing West Indian teachers with educators from first-world countries like the UK and swapping CXC exams for IGCSEs—I was met with backlash, downvoted, and cooked on this very news platform. But the truth remains: our education system is failing, and refusing to fix it only keeps the electorate uninformed and easily manipulated. It was not until I went abroad in the UK, that I realised that the secondary education they received compared to mine (a CIG public high school) was on a different level, and it hit me like a rock. It was a very humbling experience for me to say the least.
Just look at how recklessly this government spends money, as if the well will never run dry. Even the Auditor General has predicted a grim future for this country. Cayman is rapidly turning into a welfare state, yet so many people refuse to see it. I wish more Caymanians would vote based on logic and policy rather than family ties, favors from a decade ago, or outright bribes. I know I’ll get downvoted for saying this, but it’s the truth.
We talk about the healthcare and health insurance crisis, yet look at our lifestyle choices and what’s considered normal in Caymanian culture. Cassava cakes, fatty meats, and fast food dominate our diets. Just take a look at the endless drive-thru lines (KFC, Popeyes, Wendy’s, Tim Hortons, A La Kebab, etc). We’re experiencing serious health issues—often prematurely—because we fail to take preventive measures. Even in schools, what kind of lunches are children being served? Where’s the nutritional value?
As for financial services, I’m still new to the industry as I just began my career, but from what I’ve observed and learned from colleagues—many of whom come from first-world financial sectors—if this tiny island, barely visible on a world map, manages to destroy its financial sector, Cayman is finished. It contributes so much to our GDP and it almost feels to me, at least, that the government tries to milk everything it possibly can from it to fund useless pet projects and giving money to churches (vote buying lol).
My advice to educated, hardworking Caymanians is to secure your British passport if you do not already own one. If (or rather, when.. sigh) this government completely runs the country into the ground, you’ll want and need options. Decades of underqualified, ineffective politicians—many of whom wouldn’t last a day in the private sector in this country, let alone on the global stage—have brought us here. It’s a sad reality, but this beautiful island faces a dark future.
You obviously lost control of the government years ago.
Check back in a couple months and see what’s up.
yeah for more of the same…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
yes..i am talking about the most qualified and successful caymanians….that have spent their lives here.
why would they they not have the best interests of cayman at heart?
what have your ‘real caymanaians’ done?????
You mean other than establish literally every single industry on the island long before any of you and the other vultures showed up?
1. Fishing.
2. Tin shacks.
What other industries did so-called multigenerational Caymanians “establish”?!
….and they came from where LOL
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Churches should be fully funded by themselves. They need more? pray harder! They already get import duty concessions!
Another $500,000 for the Brac sorts Centre.
Is Jujudas That scared of Dan that she has to buy votes.
How is it possible that progress for most things here that really matter is slower than molasses, but when it comes to putting up gurning faces on billboards, imploring people to vote for someone on the back of three words, or a meaningless slogan, that seems unrelated to the character on the board, these things go up like lightning?
And these same thieves are now calling themselves PPM having spent public funds to get themselves elected.
No way do PPM get any of my family votes.
Unna keep spending man. Keep it going like the money will never finish. This balloon will pop one day, and this place will be finished. How much longer do we have before we genuinely become broke (Genuine question to the readers of this)? They’re all idiots, vote them ALL OUT!
As usual. The little crooks giving their friends money.
Another church in WB????? Listen, I dont care how much money Mckeeva gives to churches. It wont dave his Damned soul from hell.
Then this “Manna” foundation????. Who the hell are these people? What do they do? What is the money for?
Based on previous give aways, this money will end up in another country, helping those countries citizens. Meanwhile Caymanians suffer….. Facts….
Ah yes, it doesn’t matter how sophisticated we pretend to be as a country, at heart it really is an old school banana republic where cash is King. Legge was right.
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Legge was a part of the problem with his pay for play elitist scheme. Those who advertised with him got good stories written about them. How is that any better?
It’s called vote buying.
The park will be the most expensive per square foot in the world
Manna is somehow affiliated with the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, but there is no link to it from the CICSDA website. KYD$750,000 is a crazy large donation without any detail or tracking. What are we buying exactly? Perhaps John Wesley could speak with the community’s press about the purpose of this colossal 11th hour gift and how it will be used?
“What are we buying exactly” – we are taking on debt – they are buying votes with our money
Absolutely agree with you. They appear to provide food packages???
Any money given to support food security should have gone to the Food Bank.