PPM big guns on Brac but ‘ganja man’ fires back

| 12/04/2021

(CNS): Elvis McKeever urged the people of Cayman Brac to pray for his opponent on Sunday morning after three Cabinet ministers travelled to the island on Saturday to help shore up Juliana O’Connor-Connolly’s increasingly challenging race in Cayman Brac East against the self styled ‘ganja man’.

McKeever said that while he was certainly in need of his constituents’ prayers right now, O’Connor-Connolly needed them more. The Progressives’ new party leader, Roy McTaggart, along with Premier Alden McLaughlin and Health Minister Dwayne Seymour, who is running on the PPM Alliance ticket, went to the Sister islands, where not too long ago both seats were considered two of the safest for the party.

But it appears that McKeever has been gaining momentum and is looking more and more like a serious challenge to taking O’Connor-Conolly’s seat after more than 20 years. In her address to the district the education minister largely campaigned on the increase in teachers’ salaries, the boost to scholarships and other claims about how well she has handled the education portfolio.

But in a Facebook response to the PPM meeting on Saturday night, McKeever called out their sudden interest in the decriminalization of ganja.

O’Connor-Connolly had announced from the hustings that she was pressing for a policy to allow the licensed cultivation of medical ganja, as well as wiping clean criminal records from cannabis convictions and supporting a referendum on the question of legalization.

McKeever said it was too late for O’Connor-Connolly to suddenly try and get on the ganja train. He pointed out that she had ignored the petition he collected from Brac voters in 2019 and has refused to meet with him about the possibility of ganja cultivation.

He also called her out for the decision to increase scholarships for students wanting to do teacher training, saying that twenty years ago when people on the Brac were pushing for that policy she had dismissed the idea out of hand.

McKeever said the appearance of the ministers, including Seymour, made him think the PPM must be worried.

“The minister come up ‘ere to come at the ganja man… Sister Julie, you on the ganja train… but there is no seats for you… It’s too late,” McKeever said challenging O’Connor-Connolly to explain why she had failed to hold any meetings alone and why she would not face him on the debate stage.

At the PPM rally, Premier Alden McLaughlin urged the people of the Sister Islands to vote for Moses Kirkconnell and O’Connor Connolly because he did not think anyone wanted to trade two ministers for two people that would almost certainly not be ministers in anyone’s government.

But McKeever pointed out that voting for McLaughlin’s government would not bring legalized weed, as he urged the people to vote for “Elvis Jeffery McKeever. the weed head that they are afraid of”.

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