Bryan confirms he will run on Progressives ticket
Kenneth Bryan (GTC incumbent) is deputy premier and tourism minister with the UPM while campaigning with the PPM as deputy leader of the party. More on Radio Cayman(CNS): After several weeks courting Deputy Premier Kenneth BryanKenneth Bryan (GTC incumbent) is deputy premier and tourism minister with the UPM while campaigning with the PPM as deputy leader of the party. More, the incumbent for George Town Central, the Progressives have announced that he has returned to the party where he started his political career but then successfully ran for office twice as an independent candidate. The PPM made the announcement on social media as Bryan appeared on Radio Cayman.
Having beaten Marco Archer, a PPM minister, in 2017, Bryan ran for re-election in 2021 against another PPM candidate, Frank Cornwall, and received 87% of the vote. In the April 2025 election, just one other candidate has so far declared that she will challenge him — Carmen McField, a member of the Cayman Islands National Party — though there is still one week to go until Nomination Day.
Explaining his decision to finally rejoin the party after weeks of avoiding a commitment either way, Bryan said that because of the government instability over the last four years during the coalition of independents (first PACT and then the UPM), the public wants a much more unified approach to governance.
He said the government had gone through “a lot of ups and downs… a lot of changes” and “a lot of instability”, which the public doesn’t want to see again. “I have to admit there were a number of different directions… I’m sorry that the country had to go through that,” Bryan added when he appeared on Orrett Connor’s show, For the Record.
Following PPM Leader Joey Hew’s very public invitation to join the PPM, Bryan said he wasn’t the same Kenneth who ran for office the first time in 2013, and the PPM is not the same party that it was then. He said Hew’s approach was “totally different”.
Bryan said he wants to be at the table where the decisions will made about the whole country’s future. He said the call from the public for cohesive government meant he had to choose whether or not to retain his political independence.
“I have grown and recognise that you can’t do everything by yourself, and you do need structure; you do need discipline and you need the right approach to come with one voice,” he said.
Bryan claimed his decision to join a party led him to the PPM because the CINP is fielding a whole slate of inexperienced people, which he said is impractical. He also said he could not run with the TCCP, saying that its members had “walked away when things got hard”.
In fact, Bryan was part of the Cabinet that initially split up PACT by ousting Wayne Panton from its leadership because of his determination to protect the Cayman Islands’ natural resources. The UPM administration that emerged was plagued by internal conflict until four members resigned because they could not support the poor and inappropriate decisions on matters of significant national importance.
Bryan also admitted that neither the CINP nor the TCCP had invited him to join them. He also implied that the TCCP was also running a candidate in GTC against him, but CNS has been unable to confirm that.
He said his reason for leaving the PPM was a specific difference between him and former premier Sir Alden McLaughlin, something that has also changed over the last decade.
Bryan accepted that there were immigration issues. Voters believe that the Progressives had not put Caymanians first and had promoted the goal of having at least 100,000 residents in the Cayman Islands — a target that many believe has already been reached.
However, Bryan said he had been reassured that the party now recognised the need for reform and was on the same page as him. He also said he believed that with an organised, experienced party, he would be able to get even more things done, as the differences among the PACT/UPM
PACT was a group of independent MPs who came together after the 2021 elections to form a government. It later became the UPM. More members meant too much time was wasted.
He made an appeal to other candidates to join him and team up with the Progressives. Although he did not name anyone, it is understood that Dwayne Seymour, the incumbent for Bodden Town East, will be aligning himself with or joining the party as he takes on Robert Bodden, who is running with the TCCP.
He did not mention his close friend Chris Saunders, who said less than two weeks ago he was confident that Bryan was not running with the Progressives.
However, Bryan did urge Juliana O’Connor-Connolly
Juliana O'Connor-Connolly (CBE incumbent) is running with the PPM. She is the current premier and has been minister of education since May 2017. More to run again one more time because of her experience, given how many seasoned politicians are retiring this election cycle. He urged the people of Cayman Brac East to call her and ask her to run again.
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We at the CCPD have high hopes for you KB & we sure approve of your candidacy!
However, this latest move has caused us to order an extra participation trophy 
we didn’t think we’d need initially.
Cola Kenny and Dumb Dumb are not options to run the f****g country people! One keeps trying to drive with Vaseline on his hands. And the other is just f****n dangerous. Do not vote for these buffoons, PLEASE!
Kenneth Bryan, your prerogative scene, but it’s the dumbest mistake ever made in Caymsn politics. You have sold yourself short to those who respected you. You like one of the ppm now eating ya own vomit after they used you, abused you snd kicked you out. What kind of example are you setting young man? What kinda offer could make you who seemed to be a forthright person , accept and piss on your own principles.
Ashamed of this decision are many of your GTC supporters. If you don’t believe so, youre entitled to weep and cry on May 1st. Awful mistake young man, selling yourself to dem who sell outv the country to developers. Jeeezum Kenneth
Its PPM that should be ashamed of associating with an uneducated dealer .
Led by who ? Cayman people hear this if you want to see these islands prosper vote for Dans and Andre/Waynes groups. If you vote PPM all you will get is a lot of braying and over talking from the likes of their new recruits that you are aware/ of been reading about in recent articles. who dem no sah.
What we need is honesty, dedication and Accountable zMPS who are prepared to turn this Motha inside out in order to right the wrongs created by BigMac, Kirk, Alden and their surrogates over the last 12 years. They are all not good for these islands and they have sucked out enough of our money while doing nothing of significance for the peoples current and future welfare. DO NOT VzoTE FOR ANY PPM candidate. You will regret it if you do!
Kenneth says he can “do more” with the PPM…like have government buy a private jet because this will enable them to get to regional meetings (jollies) more efficiently.
This time around my Tick will be like Kenneth: jump from cow to donkey rump, as John John Would say on a full moon.
Please don’t vote for KB. Please.
A village somewhere is missing its idiot.
Can i get odds on Kenny switching party allegiances from the PPM before the election?
Kenny may switch, but he has a better power grab opportunity by arranging a coup with Juju, Mac Seymour and Saunders to overthrow Joey.
Not a fan of the PPM or KB, but when one weighs the PPM vs TCCP vs CINP vs whoever else will pop up- the best suited to run the country is a PPM led government.
lol – come on fanboy, that’s weak sauce.
People of GTC – what has the PPM done for you and will that actually change simply because your boy Kenneth joins them?
well, there’s the aqueduct…
And the monorail.
Splitter!
PPM = “People’s Paramount Mistake”
Well, that takes PPM off the list for consideration.
I actually think the PPM is definitely in consideration … for clown show of the year.
Feeling sad for Roy.
A decent educated generational Caymanian who does not belong in the pack of wolves Joey has welcomed .
I wish he would align himself with Dan or Andre .
Keep in mind that Bryan was solely responsible for preventing a vote of no confidence in McKeeva Bush after his drunken assault on a female bar manager.
Bryan has no principles other than self-interest and no integrity whatsoever.
If the people of GTC vote him back in it will be a sad day for Cayman democracy.
I’m trying to think of examples in the UK where so many elected members change ranks, change ranks more than once, and change back again.
On a % basis, its not even close. This is nonsense and has to end. There are zero consequences for elected members changing their affiliations not once, twice or three times. Its extraordinary. We are the keystone cops of democracies.
i’m going to make a bold statement here – we are doomed as a nation as long as the same old teflon coated grifters stay in power sucking on the teets of massive salaries and perks from interested observers.
If i wake up on May 1 and we’re led by L’il Who’y & Billboard Kenny, i’ll keep driving around red bay roundabouts and never come off….just like our political horse traders
You are right, a single party change will get you accusations or at the very least a reputation for disloyalty, dishonesty and duplicitousness for the rest of your career in basically any other Parliamentary system.
Here? Its just business as usual because our politics are not based on policies or positions it’s about using your finger to figure out which way the wind is blowing and following suit. There were never ideological differences between the PPM / UDP it was all egos and bravado which is why their 2017-2021 “Unity Government” went off without a hitch. As soon as it was politically convenient for Alden and Mckeeva to work together they were together like white on rice.
I suspect we are going to have a handful of people elected from each set of parties sprinkled in with a few independents and we are going to be in a very similar situation to 2017 and 2021 where whoever sings the sweetest song to the Kingmakers will get a few years at the wheel, until Caymanians start voting against unprincipled duplicitous politicians that go with the wind on every issue things here will not improve.
Yeas. And because we must “start voting against unprincipled duplicitous politicians” we must stop thinking that parties are good for democracy when we have such clear indications that they are not, given their revolving door makeup. Vote for the person, regardless of their party status.
Unfortunately it’s no longer Caymanians voting for these Yardies wearing shirt and tie.
They all are sniffing their way back to the PPM to keep leeching off us. Zealot Julianna and tipsy Seymour will probably end up back there too. Do Brackers want that woman again?! Has the Cayman Islands not had enough of the same recycled politricksters? And not voting is not an option, because then we leave the field wide open for their supporters to elect them with minimal effort. What a cluster pluck. Dan, André: please join efforts for the good of the country. Not all of your candidates will get in, but a significant majority will neutralize these tugs.
Donkey Man has just aligned with PPM!
What a f#%* debacle. This would be laughable, if so many serious issues were not at stake.
It looks like the PPM didnt get the message that we voters did not want anymore of the Donkey Rider of the Full Moon, Tantrum Kenny, or Juju Bothsides
Joey hasn’t got the message that these guys are going to get rid of him at the earliest strategic opportunity to place either Kenneth or Juju as premier, backed by Saunders, Dumdum, Mac, Jay and whoever else needs too keep their MP salary.
A vote for PPM now is a vote for Kenny as future Premier…and then GOD help Cayman.
Thankfully we can look forward to Dan or Andre’s groups to form a Kenneth free government, also without Juju, Mac DuhWayne and Seymour.
He’s run to PPM knowing Dan and Andre have principles and integrity.
PPM doesn’t get the people’s messages for anything because they do not care to hear what the people have to say.
The TCCP and CINP bots are furious LMAO
Why? Kenneth is an albatross who has only remained in power because he hasn’t faced a serious candidate, much like the PPM who has thrived on voter apathy and lack of serious challengers.
When people turn out PPM looses, when candidates are serious, PPM looses.
Agree, the biggest lie that exists in Cayman’s politics is that the PPM is a successful legacy party, in 2021 their vote total hit the lowest level ever and they lost 2 sitting members of their ‘alliance’ they also failed to make any pickups despite not competing with any other party which would make them a laughingstock in any other country.
The only thing that buoyed them previously was multimember constituencies when they could get subset of voters to vote down the party line and win a handful of seats via plurality, they have never had widespread support.
Its always been a charade.
We’re all Furious, as we see Cayman being taken away from us by corrupt Jamaican politicians and their wealthy Jamaican supporters badly in need of a cruise pier .
Keep laughing, bozo, and you’re going to find out us “bot” actually vote and that we don’t vote for clown shows like the PPM.
May consider voting for PPM if they can get Mr Bryan to take down his unsightly billboard.
https://caymannewsservice.com/2022/07/mctaggart-accuses-bryan-of-breaching-ministers-code/
Over to you for comment Roy.
Hey remember when PPM said they wouldnt back any controversial legislation… and less than 60 days later backed the cruise referendum?
at this point any statement coming from them means nothing.
PPM can’t be trusted to even walk a dog.
This guy should stick to modeling and news casting. He has wasted so much of the public purse on projects that either failed or went no where. Now he wants to take Mr. Johnson’ beach property just to prove he can but Chris stand your lme
By Joey saying that Kenneth has shown so much maturity over the last years, that means he has shown he will do anything Dart wants.
Everyone knows PPM are the bought and paid for party.
With them accepting Kenneth, that means they will accept McKeeva, Julianna and Dwayne back also.
Kiss my vote goodbye PPM!
Please people do not vote for any PPM candidate. We cannot afford another government controlled by Mac, Bryan, Jon Jon and Joey. They will destroy what is left of Cayman.
The PPM may be the party with ‘experience’ but for 99% of the electorate it has all been very bad experiences since at least 2010.
well said
It is easier to get rid of everything that smells bad when it sorts itself into one bag.
Makes me sick to my stomach. Politicians Politicking; they only care about themselves and their legacy.
Convicted crack dealers have no business being allowed to run in the first place.
This man isn’t loyal to anyone or anything. Just want to get in to build his cruise pier.
Watch JuJu jump in right behind him, they all looking for opportunities to keep snouts in trough.
If you look at CBE district, you will see that Julie isn’t running again.
PPM already convinced her to run again.
He knows from Mac that the preferred Chinese contractor is very generous…
Kenneth will bring with him Mac Juju Saunders and we’ll be back to the situation we’re trying to get out of.
Look at who is playing kissy kissy with Kenneth in all the port protest videos. He’s their new Mac, now that they got status, they’re going to use Kenneth to get piers to finally Fup George Town.
Are PPM really that low and desperate that they have to kiss the backsides of a convicted drug dealer and an uneducated buffoon…?
This makes Andre’s TCCP plus Scott’s group of decent and educated part members immediately preferable to Joey’s desperate attempts to gain power. Cayman cannot afford to have PPM and Joey Hew running the country.
Clearly Bryan, Saunders and Seymour will demand cabinet posts, thereby setting the scene for more years of political idiocy.
How can Alden stand by and watch this disaster happen?
I was just about to say, uneducated and convicted drug dealer!!! Why is this idiot allowed to be part of government.
Sad that his constituents can’t see this.
Cocaine Kenny…..
Prolly most of them did business with him…they are “his” people after all.
Another prominent example of a simple truth – Politics here is driven by personalities and egos not policies and positions. Deals are cut for personal advancement and positions not for the betterment of Cayman or Caymanians.
Some simple questions for Kenneth Bryan:
What issues has the PPM changed positions on from 4 years ago when you were criticising them ardently to get reelected and opposed them forming the next government?
What have they agreed to do differently if these Islands are unfortunate enough to have them return to power?
How is this iteration of the PPM with many of the same faces from the past 20 years as things have gotten worse for Caymanians going to be any different in practice?
I hope Kenneth Bryan’s constituents will ask him these questions and more.
Kenny Bryan’s supporters are not gifted thinkers, which explains why they vote for him.
Don’t expect them to question who he is, what he did, what he does.
They just want him to get the cruise piers built, the Public beach crammed with “his people”, and cram GT with people who will buy their cakes and Tshirts.
It is too bad that Roy hitched his wagon to this sorry lot. Fancy Pants Joey seems to be doing the limbo – how low can he go?
Adeptus Ridiculous Transmission: The Eternal Cycle of Caymanian Politics
(A Grand Collation of Political Absurdity, Predictable Resurrection, and Endless Recycling)
Ah, behold, dear citizens! Once again, the wheel turns, the machine grinds on, and the grand illusion of change is paraded before the masses. Yet those of us blessed (or cursed) with foresight already knew this would come to pass.
Kenneth Bryan, that wayward political son, has returned to the hive, pledging allegiance to the very PPM-Genestealer Cult that he once distanced himself from. Was this surprising? Nay. It was written in the stars, foretold in the sacred texts of political inevitability.
ACT I: POLITICIANS NEVER DIE—THE GREAT CAYMANIAN RECYCLING PROGRAM
Cayman’s political elite have proven themselves masters of survival, more regenerative than Tyranids, more recyclable than plastics, and more impervious to scandal than an Adeptus Mechanicus high priest caught hoarding xenos technology.
In this grand recycling program, politicians do not fade into irrelevance. They simply rebrand, wait for public memory to erode, and return under the banner of “stability” and “experience.”
This is not governance—it is a political landfill, carefully managed to keep the same names and faces rotating through power. Cayman does not have career politicians—it has political revenants, creatures that cannot be slain by mere votes or failures.
And so, Kenneth Bryan now joins the ranks of those who have shed their past identities and seamlessly reintegrated into the political recycling machine.
ACT II: THE ILLUSION OF CHANGE—THE GENESTEALER CULT STRATEGY
The People’s Progressive Movement (PPM), that noble bastion of entrenched governance, has once again reabsorbed one of its own.
This is no accident.
This is no mere coincidence.
This is the Genestealer Cult at work—its influence growing stronger, its reach expanding, as it consumes wayward politicians and rebrands them as part of the collective once more.
And now, as the election nears, the machine pulls its straying components back into the fold. The illusion of independence is dissolved, and the reality of political assimilation is revealed.
Did we not predict this?
Of course, we did. Because it was always going to happen.
ACT III: THE CURSE OF THE SEER—THE BURDEN OF PREDICTABILITY
To be able to see the future before it happens is not a gift, dear citizens.
It is a curse.
And yet, here we are, forced to endure the grand spectacle of political déjà vu.
Because, dear citizens, Cayman does not have political surprises—only preordained outcomes disguised as choice.
ACT IV: THE PLASTIC NEVER DECOMPOSES—CAYMAN’S INDESTRUCTIBLE POLITICAL CLASS
This is the final, inescapable truth. Cayman’s politicians are not just resilient—they are unkillable.
Like single-use plastics that somehow never break down, they simply re-enter the ecosystem under a different form. One day, they are opposition. The next, they are independent. The next, they are the very establishment they claimed to fight against.
It does not matter what name they wear.
It does not matter what party they pledge loyalty to.
The result is always the same.
Because, dear citizens, the game is rigged.
rigged.
ACT V: THE HOLY REVIVAL OF JULIANA O’CONNOR-CONNOLLY—DIVINE INTERVENTION IN POLITICS
And now, as if this entire comedy of errors needed one final act, we have divine intervention.
And yet, despite the questionable results of her celestial guidance, the political elite now whispers:
“Perhaps she should run again.”
Because why not?
And so, the call goes out once more.
The blessed oracle of bureaucratic mayhem may yet return to the battlefield.
And if she does, do not feign surprise.
Because in Cayman, political reincarnation is not just tradition—it is inevitability.
EPILOGUE: THE FINAL TRUTH
And so, as Kenneth Bryan’s return to the PPM solidifies yet another predictable betrayal, and as the mystical forces rally behind Juliana O’Connor-Connolly for one more divine spectacle, we are left with the most undeniable truth of all:
You cannot vote them out.
You cannot drive them into exile.
You cannot escape the cycle.
Because they never truly leave.
They simply change labels, wait for the right moment, and return.
And they always, always return.
TRANSMISSION END.
(Until the next predictable farce unfolds—most likely at the next “divinely inspired” press conference.)
perfect fit for flip-flopping ppm….
direct rule now please!
Why wait? You can experience direct rule immediately by going back home.
I am home.i’m caymanian bobo!
Confirmed by your failure to capitalize.
“He felt he could get even more done”?!! What had he done other than spend our money on useless projects??
He asked JuJu to run again?!!
Oh FFS.
RIP to the PPM. Their new recruits were scraping the barrel, but they just hit a new low with Bryant. It’s over for them.
Kenny and Joey are the perfect match of uneducated and unscrupulous charlatans to lead ppm.
They will say and do anything for $ both lack morals & ethics.
Both are controlled by big money that understand how cheap it is to direct both MP’s.
This is another reason to vote against the ppm they will finish selling out Cayman if they get to form any type of government.
Wise decision Kenneth. Don’t listen to the haters. PPM is rebuilding its team anchored with veterans.
You could have run independent but you took a stance unlike some of the other independents.
Best of luck
Veterans that have sold out
Cayman for their own egos and greed! Vomit!
Please GTC vote him out. If you think this will help anyone then you forget everything that PPM stood for. If you are against cruise berthing, please vote him out and in general if you are against cruise berthing then do not vote for any PPM candidate.
It will likely be the second thing they deal with after the first is ripping to shreds the National Conservation Act, to allow them to move forward with cruise berthing facility without any checks and balance of an EIA.
VOTE NO! No for the port and no for PPM!
That confirms the 31 votes I control in GTC for Anthony Ramoon then.
Who is he and where will he swing?!
Do tell Mr Ramoon
If you don’t know who he is then you not from GTC and you are irrelevant.
Vote NO this fool! The man puts on a persona all the time.
Sorry Roy,
I cannot vote for you as PPM standards have fallen to an all time low.
I will do my best to convince my extended family the same.
Dawn, I want to see your manifesto.
Roy T made tea and sandwiches for years for his master Alden that does not make him qualified to be an MP in Red Bay or anywhere else