Child molester gets 5 years
(CNS): Justice Alex Henderson has sentenced Gifford Prendergast to five years in prison following the recent guilty verdict which he handed down on 8 counts of indecent assault on a minor. The judge told the court that there were aggravating factors in the case, especially as the convicted man was in a position of trust and had committed repeated offences on the child over a period of 18 months. Henderson said he had manipulated his victim and, although he had used only minor physical force, he had as the victim has said “exerted mental force". Henderson said that sexual offences were inherently harmful when victims were coerced and exploited.
The judge spoke of how the offence has a long term impact on the victims as they find it difficult to form relationships based on trust when they become adults and because of the feeling of fear, shame and degradation from which they suffer. Henderson noted that in this case Prenderast’s victim was 12 and 13 while the abuse took place and was therefore too young to give consent and would not have done so even if the child had been of age.
Henderson suggested too that Prendergast’s offence were both part planned and part opportunistic but the abuse of trust and power were aggravating factors and that the abuse was considerable and enduring.
The maximum sentence in the Cayman Islands is ten years and the judge told the courtthat, based on the circumstances, he was using four years as his starting point. Although there were some mitigating factors as this was Prendergast’s first conviction and he had some 26 pages of character witnesses, the judge added to his starting point because of the aggravated factors which he had spoken about.
During the Crown’s presentation to the judge, the prosecuting attorney had stated that in the UK the acts which the defendant had perpetrated on the child would now be considered rape as a result of the change to legislation in 2003 and noted that the maximum sentence would therefore be 14 years. Although that did not apply in the Cayman Islands as the acts were still considered indecent assault and not rape, she hoped the court would consider that situation and asked the judge to start his calculations for sentence at five years.
The defence counsel had submitted that, while there were aggravated circumstances, the defendant had no previous convictions and was of previously good character to which many people had voluntarily testified in the submission of character witness statements.
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I know this man.All I can say is whoa.
I am believed to understand that another recent case of an "alleged" rape of a minor went to court recently and the jury found the attacker not guilty of rape but guilty of indecent assault. His lawyer told him to plead guilty to indecent assault to get a lesser sentence. Doesn’t that lawyer have a conscience? The doctor who examined the child in the case gave hard fact evidence in court that the child was molested. The man will walk, might serve a couple of months, and the victim and her family will suffer for the rest of her life. I just don’t understand the Justice system here.
Actually the Elected Caymanian Government has nothing to do with Parole, Prison, or Selection of Judges. I am not suggesting that the Judges are not good, I think they are, but whether they adequately reflect the cultural sensibilities and get tough on crime desires of the local populace, is a different matter. Frankly, principles applicable and adopted in countries where only one in a million gets shot in a year are not neccessarily applicable where the statistic is one in five thousand.
Any suggestion that expats are otherwise being blamed is exaggerated.
Please show me where I saidthey were?
I said that the laws were Cayman which allows limited scope for judges, who decides in the LA if a law is passed or brought in?
"Any suggestion that expats are otherwise being blamed is exaggerated."
Please. Look at any story and they nearly all start with expat blaming.
A man is hit over the head and robbed, one of the first questions by a Caymanian (Twyla) what nationality are they?
Now go back and read the comments again, or turn on Rooster, it is no wonder expats feel preduiced against constantly, and that is why there is retaliation on the comment boards and then the usual petty expat v’s Caymanian squabbles (like this one) that assist no one.
The point is a ChildMolester has been given only 5 years for a heinous crime, so Caymanians need to start calling and contacting their MLA’s and start harrassing them for tougher laws and sentences so Judges have something to work with.
I am not squabbling. I may have misunderstood what you were saying, and for that I apologise. The nationality issue can be relevant to both expats and Caymanians. When a serious crime takes place in the US by someone who is not American (911 is the obvious example – and no I am not equating what those bastards did to holding up a store) full congressional investigations take place as to why visas were granted and how the persons got through border security. Fair enough? And if about half of our crimes are committed by foreign nationals (probably because at least half of the persons living here are foreign nationals) are not half of our crimes arguably attributable to a lapse of border security and the other half of them to poor education/parenting/no opportunity etc.?
You are quite right of course. When it comes to the crime issue nationality is indeed relevant since that information may inform our immigration/border control policies. It is relevant to gfingerprinting issue and to monitoring all flights leaving the country following serious crimes (e.g. Estella Roberts murder where one charged absconded to Jamaica, GBH by Colombian nationals who were absconding to Cuba). It is probably a significant reason why so many crimes go unsolved. Why should we play the ostrich and pretend that it is irrelevant or dismiss all mention of nationality as mere bigotry? Understandably expats from particular countries are a little embarrassed since their nationality gets mentioned with some regularity and so I guess it is human nature to lash out.
However, no one is saying that all or even most of the crime is necessarily being committed by expats (we actually don’t know since most crimes are unsolved). We have our own homegrown issues to address as well such as poor parenting, gangs etc. but these issues are not mutually exclusive.
We need to improve of our detection of crime whatever the nationality of the criminals. There is no public interest in suppressing relevant information and we should make no apology for informing the public.
Might have helped if 26 of the population thought that cultural sensibilities meant writing character letters of support for a paedophile. It appeared if anything that the judge listened too much to the viewsof the people.
Had this criminal been a non-Caymanian his nationality would have been slipped in early on in this article. "Mr. Prendergast, a Jamaican national, . ." It is this double standard that disgusts me.
Evidence?
http://centos6-httpd22-php56-mysql55.installer.magneticone.com/o_belozerov/31115drupal622/headline-news/2009/09/21/guilty-plea-jazzy-b-death
http://centos6-httpd22-php56-mysql55.installer.magneticone.com/o_belozerov/31115drupal622/headline-news/2009/09/14/perez-opts-judge-trial
This double standard needs explaining!
There are plenty of articles where the nationality of the non-Caymanian offender is not reported see e.g. . http://centos6-httpd22-php56-mysql55.installer.magneticone.com/o_belozerov/31115drupal622/headline-news/2009/06/29/rapist-gets-12-years
With all said, I don’t think I could have deal with my child getting rape. With this type of sentancing I guess I will have to take the law in my own hands.
I would only be looking at a five year sentance anyway, but I will have the comfort in knowing that this one will NOT hurt another child.
Mother of two
8 counts and they only get five years!!!!! So in less than five years they will get out to molest more minors…. its statistically proven that even WITH treatment sex offenders have the highest rate of recidivism.
Wake up CAyman!
Oh and by the way I am a CAymanian so the Cayman/expat argument should be null and void on my comments.
SUpport mandatory child sexual abuse reporting by schools, dcfs and all other agencies.
Support harsher sentences for sex offenders and child abusers
Support non profits like the CICC who are spreading the Darkness 2 Light program to prevent sexual violence against kids.
This is an outrage and a terrifying shame because this convicted individual will NOT receive adequate rehabilitation to give him even the slightest chance of not re-offending.
Talk to your children, keep the lines of communication open and be wary of the adults and older kids they are around.
I get really bugged by the expat v Caymanian bit as well. I do know many Caymanians and I haven’t run across one of them that I didn’t like. I mean I am sure there are "less that nice" ones, as the news unfortunately shows, but everyone that I have met is great. In fact, nicer than I would be if someone came to my country and went about peeing in my cornflakes all the time.
I am generally not happy about either Caymanians or expats doing things that hurt this country, be it Mac making mistakes or Kurt not watching the till, or these ungracious jackass expats hacking on Caymanians and not being helpful (most of you are probably here because you are very, very well educated – try doing something useful and turn your brain to making a contribution for a change). We are guests here for xxxx’s sake!!! Show some xxxxing decorum and treat our hosts with proper respect. If I were Caymanian I’d probably drop-kick you right in the chestnuts, but then again if I were Caymanian, I’d probably be nicer than I actually am. Go figure…
Fortunately, the majority of expats that I know are actually very appreciative of Cayman and our hosts. Those that aren’t, you need to give yourself an attitude adjustment and learn to appreciate the wonderful attributes of these people.
Sorry for the vent…
Thank you for that.
I’m quite unhappy to see that there is little to no intellectual debate going on about the real issues here. I’m always angered when I see the hateful spewing that some expats post, and I always wonder how they would feel if I "went about peeing in their cornflakes all the time". Especially because for the large part Caymanians have been nice and welcoming to those who come to our shores…although in recent years many Caymanians (sometime including myself) have become very fed-up and very angry about the way that many people treat us in our own homeland.
You, however, are a breath of fresh air, and I am most happy to have you here in Cayman 🙂
I truly pray that ALL of us who wish to see this country continue to succeed will do everything possible to put us back on the right path.
"the large part Caymanians have been nice and welcoming"
In my experience I quite agree, but you have to admit you can see why so many expats get hacked off with being blamed for everything.
Look at this story asan example, and on of the first posts goes straight into blaming an expat.
In this story the child molester is Caymanian, yet the only thing the poster talks about is the Canadian judge, when he is snetencing to Caymanian Laws, brought in by a Caymanian Government filled with Caymanian MLA’s
and the expat gets blamed, can you not see why expats get fed up with and retaliate.
Thank you for this great viewpoint.
An expat needs to study Caymanian history before being given any residency rights here. I think it would be useful to require expats to study a bit of this sort of history before they get their work permit (or say within 3 months). A little cultural awareness might give the expat some helpful perspective, and cut down on all this finger pointing.
Very well written, I agree completly.
As soon as I saw the bold letters of "multi-generational" I knew where this post was going. Like the McField ViewPoint, it is nothing more than an apology for the racist and biggoted rantings from some Caymanians on this board. I had never encountered as much racism anywhere in the world as that which I have experienced in Cayman from some Caymanians (note the word "some"). If I do not like this part of the population, and I detest them, then I do not have to leave, nor shall I, unless I want to. I have many Caymanian friends and colleagues. They are wonderful people. No more wonderful than other people I have met, no less wonderful people. I was born to judge people by their character, actions and they way they treat other people, not by reference to where they came from.
Every day I hear or read horrific racism from a Caymanian, especially some of the unbelieveable comments I hear about Jamaicans and Filipinos. Some of the comments on the radio or in the newspapers letters page would result in criminal prosecutions in my country. Please, if you want to say things like that, say it in the comfort of your own racist home, not in public.
If I can employ or promote a good Caymanian who is appropriate for a place where I work I would do it. Every time I would and have done so. It is often the ones I have to employ but don’t want that cause friction. Every day in my work place I have to sort of issues caused by Caymanians employed because of the their passport rather than their talent (and that is probably only about 10% of the Caymanians I work with, but that 10% cause much much harm to hardworking and talented Caymanians). This section of the workforce are often the ones who moan loudest about discrimination in the work-place.
I have spoken to many mutli-generational Caymanians in my many years here, many are not angry, and are embarrassed by the "angry minority". The angry ones? Their anger is largely derived from a belief that foreigners are denying them access to work or capital accumulation, when in fact but for the business brought to these islands by foreigners, the working class population of Cayman would be unemployed sailors or barmen. Middle class Caymanians have far better opportunities here than anyone else in with their talent and ability in Canada, UK or the US. Be thankful not angry!
So know I do not like these angry people. But I am not going to move from where I am because of the ignorance of others, the projected anger of others or the horrific sense of entitlement that these angry people seem to have.
So angry people of Cayman:
1) Ask people what life is like in other countries for people in similar positions to yourself. You would be worse off anywhere but here.
2) Think about what a lucky thing it is for you to be born in Cayman as a Caymanian.
3) Think less about what you do not have but rather the amazing and, in some ways inappropriate, opportunities afforded to you by your passport.
4) Stop blaming others.
5) Realise if you cannot make it here, you could not make it anywhere.
"If I can employ or promote a good Caymanian who is appropriate for a place where I work I would do it".
Perhaps you do, but many expats do not but instead find ways to manipulate the system against Caymanians and in favour of others of their ‘own kind’. That is a cold, hard fact. The anger is derived from the injustice many Caymanians have received at the hands of expats in the workplace. Of course you prefer to imagine that Caymanians are simply irrational people who when they should be thankful are angry instead – hence the patronizing tone of your post.
Wasn’t it a Canadian Judge that handed out the 5 year sentence for this case? The same judge that recently sentenced the woman who stabbed another woman at Macabuca .The victim sustained a life threatening injury but the perpertrator only got 2 years prison term.
In both of these cases the defence attorneys have put forward character references which have been used to diminish the sentencing term. How can any judge consider using references to determine the characters of such criminals . It would be just as absurd to argue that aphycopath is really a nice person because of a reference.
How does Cayman expect to rid itself of crime when sentencing to such serious crimes is never what it should be? I bet a child molester in Canada would not have their sentence reduced because someone says he’s a nice guy.
Tell you what, I agree 100% – but if the criminals in Club N’ward aren’t too busy enjoying steak and watching TV, they should only need 5 minutes with this guy to inflict what he really deserves…
If not, he can come over to my place for dinner – oh, I believe the special tonight is him!!
Signed – A Survivor!
I think we are all loosing sight of the real picture.
Whoever wrote the laws are not to blame, times have changed but unfortunately our laws have not and should be looked at, especially when it comes to terms of imprisonment for crimes as heinous as this.
Whoever wrote about standing by Gifford and writing him a character reference, how nice for you!!! I hope for your sake and all the rest of people that wrote on his behalf will still have their heads up when he comes out in FIVE years and tries to fiddle with your kids.
Some of the greatest monsters in the world were known to have the most pleasant faces, the sweetest tongues and the most genuine of personalities and that still didn’t knock the fact that they murdered people by the truck loads!
These issues of nationality are petty and stupid and all of the ‘grown up’ people that keep making it an issue, I wish you would just disappear into thin air!
Irregardless of ‘who dun it’, there is a child that will forever be scarred and damaged because of this pervert, there are laws that need changing and people to help push it, there are children that need to be educated about the dangers of pedophiles (especially the ‘Gifford is a good person’ kind of pedophiles) who easily trick and fool people into thinking you could possibly know what is in a person’s heart or sick perverted mind!!
Come on people, try to focus on the issue at hand, how can we help contribute to this in a positive way even though the situation is so sad.
Everyday on the news it seems there is another story like Jaycee Dugard’s and in order to prevent those kinds of crimes from being prevalent in the Cayman Islands, we need solutions, not hatred towards each other.
To the person who wrote the charater reference for Gifford, do me a favour will ya? Find the little boy that was molested by the guy who you swears ‘never thinks about his self’ and tell him to his little face that he is indeed the LIAR that you are telling us he must be since Gifford is such a ‘good man’.
Sincerely,
The Truth Hurts!
Hey this is our Cayman, if you don’t like our indifference to home grown child molesters you are free to leave!!
WTH?!? You need to get your head checked. Indifference to child molestation is NOT okay!
I believe he got his tongue out of his cheek – any chance you can get your head out of your ass and see what he was saying/doing???
My head isn’t up my ass…I still fail to see how that could have been tounge in cheek. That post was not funny or witty at all.
Of good character? I don’t think so! The aggravating factors outlined demands the maximum sentence.
Putting him in Northward for five years will not rehabilitate him – he will offend again.
And we wonder why people commit crimes on this island, 5yrs, should be 25.
So this man now goes to NW for 5yrs but problably only sends 3-4yrs, whilst inside he will get 3 meals a day, TV , CD player, drugs, freee health care and a cel phone. What is this child going to get? nothing.
This is a country serious about these crimes:
Poland backs chemical castration
Polish MPs have passed legislation making it obligatory to chemically castrate certain sex offenders.
Under the law anyone found guilty of raping children under 15, or close relatives, will be given drugs to lower their sex drive.
All but three MPs present in the lower house voted for the measures.
They were part of a bill that also increases jail terms for incest and paedophilia, and criminalises any attempt to justify paedophilia.
Anyone propagating such a view is subject to a prison term of up to two years.
The same sentence will be applicable to anyone attempting to seduce a child under 15 years of age over the internet.
The legislation must still pass the senate before taking effect.
News Flash:
Jamaica child pornography
Thursday 24th September, 2009 Posted: 16:09 CIT (21:09 GMT)
Jamaica also created its first sex–offender registry earlier this year and strengthened laws dealing with other sexual offenses.
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Five years …. Wake up Cayman, Wake up Cayman! This is a serious
May God protect our Children!
As despicable as it is, child molestation is not the same as child pornography so you cannot compare the penalties.
Five yearsis too short a time for him to serve for what he did to the child. I agree that HSA should be ashamed to allow him to work with this case pending.
May God be with the child and family members that are supporting him through this very difficult time.
Thank goodness he only used minor force to sexually abuse this child, this make all the difference. Perhaps he suffered from some form of provocation which would have mediated a longer sentence.
In case my humor is not realized I am offended by this short sentence.
I fully agree. How can the abuser’s sentence be short when the child’s sentence is not short! He/She will have to live with what happened to them forever. When will people stop giving the abuser so many rights and give the victims the rights they deserve! It is insane!
The Cayman Island Goverment you should all be ashamed of yourselves for giving this man only five years. Child molesters should be given life sentences. These Molesters are sick son of a B*tches that should all be put on an Island and string by their D*cks. Cayman should show them no mercy!
PS: It is written in the Bible….if you hurt any of my Children on this earth you might as well put a rope around your neck before I come. God.
Grow up. The bible also says it’s OK to sell your daughter into slavery. See exodus 21:7.
& who are the people sexually assaulting Caymanian children? Their own family members most of the time.
"because Canadians and Scotts and Englishmen decide how tp punish people who rape Caymanian children"
well at least we are not the ones raping them…….what nationality was this monster???
By the way it is Scots – if you are referring to Scottish people?
It should not matter where they are from it happens all over the world, you all that is posting these comments on where the person is from is just as sick as the person molesting our children, please dont make it a caymanian thing!
How does somebody that posts a comment stating a truthful fact ‘i.e. the molestor was a Caymanian’ suddenly become as sick as the molestor?
You’ve got some really messed up people here. If you think somebody is sick because they rightfully accuse a Caymanian then I think you need to pull your head out of your behind.
You are correct that it happens all over the world. But people are commenting on this story and responding to a Caymanian who was suggesting that the british and Canadians are responsible somehow.
It’s not a race thing, I think it’s important to remember that it is a tiny island and it has more than it’s fair share of child molestation going on. All the cases I can remember have been Caymanians responsible, usually a family member. So the comments are reflective of reality and stating these facts that it is a huge problem amongst Caymanians.
This is the way and life of CAYMAN NOW and it would get WORST!!! The POLICE could have the person right in their PALMS…. and let them go or give them a LIGHT SENTENCE. Look at the killing of Phillip Watler in 2005 at the HOSPITAL- the killer got only 11yrs. The Next Level killing this year all release on BAIL!!!!!! SOOOO YOU COULD FORGET ABOUT THESE PEOPLE GETTING ANY TIME. THATS WHY THE CRIME IS AND WILL GET WORSE!!!
REHAD for this sick SOB? I hope you meant for his victim/s.
The only rehab he needs is 9 lashes from the Cat, one for each count, and one to think about what he has done to this poor child, who incidentally, will PAY for HIS crime for the rest of her / his life.
This is a Prime example of why we NEED Corporal Punishment !
Remember this petition? http://www.caymansexoffenders.org/
The last government ignored it. Please sign it so that it can be considered by the new government!
This is a fine example of why the criminals have no fear! What is there for them to fear?!
"mitigating factors…26 pages of character witnesses"…
means beside the fact this person is touching kids hes a good guy???
hope people who speak for him don’t have any children!
and if the hospital story is true then someone should explain how it
is possible to let someone work who is under investigation (and not for stealing a bandage) – i was there with my 2 kids when they were sik.
guess there is still a chance they welcome him in northward with
"open arms"…
I wrote a character witnesses of Gifford and i have not one but two children and i trust him with there lives. I DO NOT and will never beleive any of the lies. Gifford is a good person. He is always there for everyone and never thinks about his self. I and my family stand with him.
"I and my family stand with him."
Obviously not enough to print your name for the whole island to see that you stand beside a child molestor…..
You should be arrested yourself for endangering your children, and theyshould be taken away and given to someone who will take care of them in a responsible manner.
You and every other person who wrote a reference for this pervert should go to jail with him.
References for pedophiles? What a load of garbage.
If it was my child, they wouldn’t need to worry about feeding him in Northward, they could feed me instead.
In reply to " I wrote a character witnesses"
take your head out of the sand!! Gifford is a very sick man…the facts are the facts he has mess little boys life up for a long time. His MO is to seek out single women whos’ children are young boys…if you fit that profile have a talk to your boys.
P.S. by the way this not the first time he has been charged with child molestation, but it’s the first time that a child stood up to him in court…his record speaks for it him!!!. Ask me how I know!
Only 5 years??? This child will be affected for the rest of his/her life!
5 years what a joke! He had 8 counts so he should have gotten 10 years for each count making it 80 years. It is proven that these sick perverted people will never not have the urges to do this to young people. His picture needs to be posted so that he will feel ashamed anywhere he goes. Cayman’s laws against sexual abuse to children is so sad and pathetic it’s not even funny. He will most likely get out in 3 years and molest another child. Then what? Will he get sentenced to another 5 years?
Five years Mr. Henderson, this is why these men will continue to commint rape.
Shame on you Gifford Prenderast, I know your family and you did not have to do that. Shame on you Gifford
Shame on the HSA for allowing you to continue to wrok.
Am I correct in saying that once a government employee his charge for a crime, they are suspended until the matter is completed?
This guy was allowed back to work at the hospital with access to patients and information as recently as this month. Hospital management should be ashamed of themselves.
They are – problem is, the rest of government is SITTING (cause they is too lazy to stand) in front of them…
I havn’t heard anything about REHAB!
It just doesn’t make sense to sentence a man for 100 years without rehabilitation
This man is mentally sick… and all we can do is sentence him???
Actually it does make sense to sentence this man to 100 years – then we wouldn’t have to worry about Rehabilitation or repeat offences.
Sexual assault on a child is worse than rape of an adult woman.
How can he be sentenced to only 5 years?
Because Canadians and Scotts and Englishmen decide how tp punish people who rape Caymanian children.
Oh yeah, those big bad Canadiams, Scots and English. I think you forgot to mention the nationality of the offender……….
I do not deny that a significant number of Caymanians are committing a significant number of serious offences. He may be Caymanian – even a "real" Caymanian but it certainly is not a traditional Caymanian name and if you choose to see the gazette from the relevant period, it seems at least 6 people with that (or strikingly similar) last name were recently granted status. Check the phone-book – there is not a single person with that last name in it – not even the 6 granted status by cabinet, so every indication that I can see is that he is not "established" here. It is probably of reasonable importance and fair and appropriate to enquire as to the immigration status of the offender – particularly since if he is not a born Caymanian he is at serious risk of deportation. And Caymanians and law abiding residents ought to know if they have any reason to be concerned that Immigration security is failing again, particularly since the individual recently charged with the rape of the tourist at the Westin, Jazzy B’s murderer (sorry – I mean manslaughterer) and the persons accused of Estella’s murder and of Garau’s murder came here depite immigration controls. If a Board or someone else gave him permission to be here, can we be sure that all appropriate checks were done, and in any event, whether any and all permissions are being revoked – or do I need to worry when he is released in something significantly less than 5 years. CNS please investigate and report.
The name Prendergast may not seem like a normal traditional Caymanian name, but for those of us who know him, we all know he is a full blooded Caymanian (Breakers/East End).
It’s unfortunate that crime doesn’t choose a particular nationality to work with, it’s just the sick minds of the individuals who choose to commit them.
Amen to your last sentence. Now, let’s focus on an appropiate punishment for these people. Castration anyone? Let’s get the laws changed somehow. I don’t know how but references should not be allowed in court as a deciding factor on sentences. Let’s have that changed first.
If the Caymanians weren’t raping the children then the Canadians, Scots and English wouldn’t have anything to decide.
You all need to SHUT-UP !!! this is not about Caymanian, Canadians, Scots, English or any other nationality…it’s about our children!!!. We must seek to get the laws changed.
XXXXXXX…we need to take our heads out of the sand!!!. I am proud of the young man that stood up to this monster, but how sad it must be for him and his family to see that he only got five years…sadder yet he will be out in about three years or so to do this all over again to another child.
Cayman what are we going to do???
That comment doesn’t make any sense. In addition, I am sick and tired of *some* narrow-minded Caymanians who, no matter what the situation or crisis at hand may be, immediately decide that the ‘ex-pats’ are to blame. I suspect you’d be in a right mess if the ex-pats did pick up and leave or if these ‘Canadians, Scotts and Englishmen’ ceased have any input on what happens on these islands–because then there’d be no-one left to blame but Caymanians for the way the island is deteriorating, and you’d actually have show responsibilty and take it upon yourselves to do something about it! Imagine that!
Placing blame on others is certainly easy; but it’s not right. Start focusing the blame elsewhere (i.e. towards the real perpetrators) and then we might soon start to yield positive results.
And yes, I am a ‘full’ Caymanian. Proud of my beautiful country, but very saddened by it’s current downfall–not least in the sense of some of the attitudes we have been witnessing.