Tag: Anthony Eden
MLA calls for 3rd Bodden Town primary school
(CNS): Opposition MLA Alva Suckoo is calling on government to find the cash to build a third primary school in Bodden Town. Suckoo, who quit the PPM earlier this year and joined the opposition, is filing a private member’s motion asking government to use crown land in the fastest growing district in the Cayman Islands. Suckoo […]
PPM teeters on brink over future LA quorum
(CNS): Having lost three members in less than two months, the PPM government still has a slender majority on the floor of the Legislative Assembly but it is facing the problem of not being able to form a quorum to hold sittings of parliament without support from at least one member of the opposition benches […]
Eden’s resignation was a ‘shock’
(CNS): The revelation that Anthony Eden (70) was resigning from the PPM Thursday came as a “shock” to some members of the government, inside sources told CNS, even though the premier said it was not a surprise to him. It was understood that Eden, like the rest of the government, was comfortable with the limited […]
Eden jumps from PPM ship
(CNS): Veteran MLA Anthony Eden has resigned from the PPM and announced that when the parliament returns in the New Year he will be joining the independents on the opposition benches. Eden, a founding member of the party and the first elected member for Bodden Town, indicated his decision to leave was based on the government’s […]
Eden remains unmoved over reaction to homophobia
(CNS): MLA Anthony Eden has once again attempted to justify his comments about what he believes are the evils and immorality of homosexuals and the influence of non-Christians on Cayman society. In yet another personal statement, which the Speaker allowed him to deliver under the privilege of the parliament, he urged Caymanians to stand against gays […]
HRC: MLA abused privilege for hate speech
(CNS): The chair of the Human Rights Commission has called on the premier to condemn the “unstatesmanlike, inaccurate, vitriolic, and thoroughly hateful” comments made against the LGBT community by a veteran MLA during a debate on traditional marriage. The shocking comments made by Anthony Eden in the Legislative Assembly last week abused parliamentary privilege, James […]
Panton offers backing to LGBT community
(CNS): A Cabinet minister has taken a stand against comments condemning homosexuality made in the Legislative Assembly last week during a private member’s motion on traditional marriage. Saddened by the content and tone of the debate, Wayne Panton said he did not want to be associated in any way with much of what was said […]
Veteran MLA calls homosexuals evil
(CNS): One of the oldest sitting members in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly, Anthony Eden, has derided rights for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community and warned that the next step would be bestiality, as “people demanded the right to make love to their animals”. Debating a private member’s motion asking government to preserve […]
PPM veteran rejects time change
(CNS): Political veteran and government backbencher Anthony Eden has urged his frontbench colleagues to rethink the decision to introduce daylight savings (DLS) time for a catalogue of reasons, and his objections were echoed by independent member Ezzard Miller during the current budget debate. While some in the business community have called for the clock change, the MLAs’ […]
