Governor's Leaving Presentation

So much to do and so little time to do it - that's always the way when you're fixing to leave. The Governor is certainly going to be busy during his last few days in paradise.

Seals washed up in Cayman

Sorry that heading contains typos - it should read "Seales washed up in Cayman?".

The travails of CNN Publisher of no fixed abode, Desmond Seales, continue as the authorities move him along from one spot to another as if he were a common vagrant.

There does seem to be a coordinated effort to reduce Desmond's publishing activities to hawking a single-page xeroxed newsletter on street corners - like the mendacious mendicant (look them up) some say he always was.

Desmond is nothing if not a survivor but his enemies are gathering.

This time around there may be no circus owner wanting to splash out on a performing Seales to bark, clap his fins noisily and spellbind an audience by juggling anything his  latest ringmaster throws to him.

Too many troubles coming at once this time perhaps - even Desmond can only keep so many balls in the air at once.

Nobody's Business - an all purpose Gordon Barlow post.

Since the landlord locked Cayman Net News out of their offices at the Alissta Towers building* earlier this week they have had to make do and mend to get an edition out.

However, Friday rolls around and there is no Gordon Barlow column so I created an all-purpose, emergency look-alike one for people getting the heebie-jeebies, cold turkey and similar withdrawal symptoms.

Have you noticed how it's impossible to get your head sewn back on at the Hospital these days? I bet that wouldn't happen if you were a bloodline Caymanian.

The Cayman Islands, for all of it's claims to be a living and breathing modern democracy ... serious human-rights challenges ... afraid of losing their jobs ... treated like some mad zealot ... threatened to pull his company’s advertising ... xenophobia ... cronyism ... systematic exploitation.

FCO has in fact abandoned the ideal of “good governance” ...  perfidious Albion ... our London masters  ... British Empire ... narrow UK interests ... MI5 ... Eurobank scandal ... MI6 ... kangaroo courts ... MI7 .... cold weather ... warm beer ... M25 ... Pommie Bastards!

When I was interviewed on a Radio Cayman programme ... the ethnic-cleansing exercise known as the Rollover ... never been asked back ... Rotary never asked me back either ... not just state employees ... usual suspects.

As for the wretched immigrant workers ... systematic exploitation ... “Protector of Immigrants”  ... 20,000 ethnic Caymanians .. 30,000 migrants ... 40,000 immigrants ...  50,000 immigrants ... tensions rising ... resentment ... tribal bloodlines ... Caymanians promoted to top positions regardless  ... ignorance no obstacle to advancement ... one sugar please and then string some corks onto my new hat.

Discrimination is written into the Immigration Law  ... “just following orders”
.. born-and-bred Caymanians ... severe tensions ... moderate Caymanians wringing their hands ... ethnic Caymanians ... tribalist Constitution ... crony Board members.

How ignorant it is to blame foreign visitors to our Islands for the sins of their forebears ...  Gallipoli all over again ... look at what they've done to Mel Gibson ... whingeing Poms ... call yourself a Governor?  

Which is why we need independent MLAs ... electing mere populists ... politics of vanity ... money frittered away on empire-building ... time after time ... pandering to the prejudices of their fellow-ethnics ... waste and more waste ... solid gold paperweights ... how much for a beer! ... Governor stands idly by ... Pommie Bastards!

I leave you with this uplifting insight from a seasoned political commentator

 “Politics, as a practice, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”

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* Desmond if you're reading - I heard about this guy 'Evans' (possibly not his real name) who can open the door to Alissta Towers and the door of your old office any time you like.