Tag: corruption
‘We trusted Watson,’ says ministry boss
(CNS): Having doled out some CI$1.5 million of taxpayers’ money for the national rollout of the hospital verification-payment system that never happened, the chief officer of the health ministry revealed Monday that she had never seen a contract to justify the payments in 2011 beforehand. Jennifer Ahearn said officials trusted HSA Board Chair Canover Watson […]
FOI request made for Moses, says witness in CarePay trial
(CNS): An FOI request to the Health Services Authority asking about the owners of AIS Cayman Ltd was made by Dale Sanders, the head of IT at the HSA at the time, on behalf of MLA Moses Kirkconnell, Sanders told the court Thursday. Giving evidence for the second day in the CarePay corruption case, Sanders […]
CarePay RFP far too short, says IT expert
(CNS): The tight timeline ordered by Canover Watson to turn around the request for proposals for the hospital payment system contract was “unprecedented”, a key crown witness told the court when he gave evidence on Wednesday in the ongoing corruption trial. The short time also meant that a number of other companies, including local firm […]
Doctor points finger at political command
(CNS): The former medical director of the Health Services Authority (HSA), Dr Greg Hoeksema, told the court Monday he believed that the fraud allegations surrounding the contract with AIS (Cayman) for the hospital payment system went much further up the political chain of command. Giving evidence via video-link from the US in the case against […]
Webb embezzled cash meant for poorest kids
(CNS): As the international FIFA corruption scandal rolls on, the latest indictment by the United States Department of Justice outlines how Jeffrey Webb, the suspended Cayman Islands Football Association president, took cash meant for disaster relief and grassroots football programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. Sports Minister Osbourne Bodden has again called for […]
Webb pleads guilty, gives up $6.7M in FIFA probe
(CNS): The former president of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA), Jeffrey Webb, has pleaded guilty to charges against him in the United States Department of Justice FIFA investigation. The local football hero is one of eight defendants who have admitted to various racketeering offences, revealed in the latest update from the US authorities. Webb has […]
Hospital boss ‘shocked’ by email revelations
(CNS): Seeing emails for the first time showing Canover Watson planned to set up a pharmacy company with bidders on hospital contracts while he was sitting as chair of the Health Services Authority, Lizette Yearwood, the HSA’s chief executive, said she was shocked by the revelations. The first witness in the CarePay corruption trial when it […]
Watson worked to save CarePay, claims lawyer
(CNS): Canover Watson’s involvement in the day-to-day affairs of AIS (Cayman) Ltd was because someone needed to keep the important CarePay project on track, the jury heard Friday, not because he was taking a cut. The defence attorney representing the local businessman and former chair of the Health Services Authority Board, who is charged with multiple […]
Watson accused of doctoring contract to solicit more cash
(CNS): The former chair of the Health Services Authority Board was accused in court Thursday of doctoring an original contract he signed on behalf of the hospital as means of conning the health ministry out of some $2 million for a national roll-out of the payment system. As the trial of Canover Watson and Miriam Rodrigues continued, […]
CIFA cash lands in Watson and Webb accounts, crown says
(CNS): As the crown pressed on with its case against Canover Watson and Miriam Rodrigues Wednesday, the court heard how public funds found their way into banks accounts controlled by Watson and his long-term friend and business partner, Jeffrey Webb, as well as cash from the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA). As the prosecutor continued his […]
Major cash cream-off revealed in fraud trial
(CNS): Local businessman Canover Watson and his long-term friend and business associate, Jeffrey Webb, may have taken more than half a million dollars of public money for themselves in the CarePay hospital contract fraud, according to the prosecution. As the case against Watson and his former PA, Miriam Rodrigues, continued Wednesday, the focus was on […]
