Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Cayman Premier Ousted

Yesterday afternoon while here in DFW, my blackberry suddenly started flashing multiple messages.  The Legislative Assembly had voted a Motion of No Confidence in Premier Bush and ousted him from leadership of the country.  He had been arrested last week and for several days his own party tried to get him to step down.  When he wouldn't, his party split with over half of them joining the opposition in removing him as Premier.  While not quite analogous to impeachment it has the same effect as the leader of Cayman no longer holds his post.  In my position as Chairman of CINICO this has a lot of implications as it could mean anything from no changes through the regularly scheduled elections in May or no Minister of Health if early elections are called for February and the government is dissolved.  My term runs through June so either way when we get back in two weeks there will be some interesting times for my work with the government owned entity.