Archive for September, 2011
Tony Blair to headline fundraiser at Ritz
(CNS): The former prime minister of the UK will be visiting the Cayman Islands in November to appear at a special fundraising event that will take place at the Ritz Carlton for the opening of the 2011 KPMG Legends Tennis Championships. Tony Blair, who was leader of the British Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, will be the guest speaker at the dinner, which will take place at Eric Ripert’s restaurant Blue on 16 November and will be sold as part of the tennis tournament’s Pro-Am package. The dinner kicks off the annual tournament that brings some of the world’s best tennis players to Grand Cayman and raises money for local junior tennis and the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre.
Mike Ryan, developer of the Ritz-Carlton and host of the tournament, said that it was touch and go that the annual tennis event would take place at all this year. “Having run the event for the past ten years, it was doubtful, given the current tough economic times, if we could afford to do an event this year, but we thought it important to try and I am especially proud of our sponsors like KPMG and the Cayman Islands Government whose support has enabled the event to take place and allow us the opportunity to continue to give back to the community,” Ryan stated.
The players competing in this year’s Championships include Grand Slam tournament winners Martina Hingis, Jennifer Capriati, Mark Philippoussis, Wayne Ferreira, Chanda Rubin, Jimmy Arias, Stephen Huss and Murphy Jensen.
At a press conference to announce the event details, Premier McKeeva Bush said he was pleased to see the continued development of this event.
“KPMG Legends Tennis is a great contributor to the Cayman Islands tourism product. Bringing internationally recognized names to the tennis courts of Grand Cayman is a contribution to tourism of the highest order,” Bush said, adding that the benefits of the Legends Tennis went beyond tourism as it is also a fundraiser helping women in distress and supports young tennis players.
He said everyone could appreciate the charity component of the tournament, which was in the spirit of giving back to the community. “It’s great to see a company like KPMG associated with the tournament. We know that without sponsors such as KPMG, such a big event may very well not be possible,” Bush stated, adding that the firm set an excellent example of good corporate citizenship.
Thanking Ryan for “having the vision and the passion to bring Legends Tennis to the Cayman Islands,” he also congratulated him for getting Tony Blair to support the event. “Such a distinguished guest speaker can only add another dimension and prestige to an already celebrated event,” the premier added.
Ryan explained that this year’s tournament had a number of extras as a result of feedback from previous tournaments. “What we tried to do this year was listen to the feedback that we’ve had over the various years about what were the things that people particularly liked and what were some things that we could improve on and how we could really make it a broader event that engaged more of the community,” he said.
One change is the addition of female players on the roster. The tournament will consist of both men’s single tennis and mixed doubles tennis. For the first time, local players will be included – with four Cayman players getting wildcards into the draw and two Cayman amateurs.
“An important part of the 2011 KPMG Legends Tennis Championships is to ensure that Cayman’s best juniors, amateurs and pros get a chance to play alongside and on the court with some of the world’s greatest tennis players,” Ryan added.
Local junior players will also be in the competitive spotlight for the tournament as this year there will be a KPMG Junior Legends tournament taking place, with the Junior Finals being played as the first match on each evening of the pro Championships.
“For the junior players to be able to play in front of all-time greats such as Hingis, Capriati and Philippousis will be a great boost and inspiration to them, and hopefully encourage them to go further in the sport,” said event organizer, Dan Kneipp.
Tennis Federation Secretary Geraldine Duckworth said the federation board members have already started assisting with the arrangements and recruiting volunteers to help out. “It is wonderful that we will be able to share in the benefits too, namely funds to help with our tennis development programmes. Some of our juniors will play in the event and many other young players will be able to watch,” she said.
To make the event more inclusive and accessible, organisers have expanded the seating and reduced match ticket prices. Over 5,500 tickets for the event will be offered, with prices starting at $5. A 3-day pass to attend each night of play will cost $45. VIP packages are also available, as is participation in the fund-raising Pro-Am portion of the tournament.
Cayman signs tax deal with Chinese
(CNS): Cayman has signed a tax deal with the People’s Republic of China. The country’s 26th tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) was signed by the premier, Monday, on behalf of the Cayman Islands and by Madame Song Lan, the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) Deputy Commissioner and Vice Minister, on behalf of the Chinese government. Aside from adding to Cayman’s tally in the OECD’s yardstick on transparency the deal was described by McKeeva Bush as a “significant step in enhancing” Cayman’s relationship” with China. The TIEA comes at a time when the premier is in the middle of talks with the Chinese to build cruise berthing facilities in George Town.
“This is the 26th signed agreement for exchange of information for tax purposes and the People’s Republic of China has become another member of the G20 group of countries to have a TIEA with the Cayman Islands,” said McKeeva Bush. “Signing this TIEA is a significant step in enhancingthe relationship between the Cayman Islands and China. With China being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, we are confident that this TIEA will contribute positively to economic activity between the two countries."
China Harbour Engineering Company signed a Ministerial MOU with the premier in June for a five month ‘exclusive’ period to thrash out a deal that if successful will see the Bejing based firm finance, build and operate two cruise piers in George Town harbour to provide docking facilities for the next generation of cruise ships. The proposed project also includes discussions about a pier in West Bay, near the Turtle Farm and the renovation of the Spotts Jetty.
Governor Duncan Taylor as well as Members of the Legislative Assembly; Cayman Islands International Tax Cooperation Team members; senior officials from the Ministry of Finance; and representatives from the Bank of China were all in attendance at the ceremony held in George Town. Attending for the Chinese delegation were the Director General of SAT Tax Administration Department, Mr. LI Linjun; Director General of SAT Electronic Tax Service Centre, Madame YAO Qin; Director of Global Cooperation and Compliance, SAT International Taxation Department, Mr. HUANG Suhua; Principal Staff Member of SAT General Office, Ms. LU Shan; and Staff Member of SAT International Taxation Department, Mr. LI Qiaolang.
Short-term visas to clear way for business visitors
(CNS): The five day instant visa forpeople visiting Cayman on business, first mooted by the premier last year, could become law by November. The Immigration Review Team has suggested that a short term visa lasting one to five days for business visitors could be paid for at the airport and would not require a police clearance certificate. The business visitor would simply need a letter from a local sponsor and would no longer fall foul of the law that requires people coming to the island on business to acquire a work permit, even when they are here on a business trip lasting just a few days.
The premier has persistently complained that business visitors are not well treated when they arrive at the airport here and are questioned about permits. He said he wanted to improve the system for potential investors to enable them to receive a warmer welcome and get a better impression when visiting the Cayman Islands on a business trip.
The introduction of the new visa is expected to be one of a number of impending changes to the immigration law (which is expected to be presented to the Legislative Assembly in November) that the premier hopes will create a more business friendly approach.
Chair of the IRT, Sherri Bodden-Cowan, said the new visa will cost around CI$100 and be paid for by the sponsoring ‘employer’. The business visitor will also get a 30-day visitor stamp in order to stay and enjoy a vacation on the island with their family as well as the short period of employment. These visitors would then not need to become part of the temporary work permit system.
Regulation 11 of the Immigration Law, which details who can come to the Island without needing a work permit, will be expanded under this amendment. Board directors coming to the Island for executivecompany meetings and people attending conferences will also be included in the list of individuals who would not need a work permit.
“We’ve been working with the business community to expand this regulation. Both moves are to make us more business visitor-friendly at the airport and the law is written and is ready to go,” Bodden-Cowan said.
With regards to the financial services sector, the IRT is also looking at an initiative for individuals who want to establish a substantial business presence on the Island, therefore encouraging businesses such as brokerage houses and investment managers who do not usually locate their business in Cayman to do so.
This could be done by offering a 25 year residency with the right to work certificate to those individuals within the management and control of such businesses. These businesses would also have to be licenced by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, have bank accounts here and show a physical presence.
“The result would be to bring people of high net worth on the Island who would enjoy living here and carrying out their business, which would expand our business community,” Bodden-Cowan confirmed.
Companies would have to be an approved business(of which there would be a list), they would have to show they had established a substantial business presence or physical presence and they would have to show those individuals who were in management and control of the company were actually working here in order to obtain the certificate, she added.
Another initiative the IRT has been examining was the recently published intention to offer permanent residency for an individual’s physical cash investment into property. This would not be based on mortgages people have for a property or how much it might be worth but based on a cash injection, the IRT explained.
“The premier’s idea is to get the construction trade started,” Bodden-Cowan said, “so they could be granted permanent residency if they are going to come and build a house for $500,000 or more or buy an apartment for $500,000. The premier is looking for cash in, so mortgages and valuations do not count.”
She explained that the government was looking to put a quota on the numbers of cash-for-residency applications, as used to be the case for the grant of Caymanian Status,“say, around 100 a year,” she said. “There are a lot of people here who don’t want to wait eight years to get residency. At the moment they have to wait eight years and they are not buying homes and apartments.”
Bodden-Cowan confirmed that the IRT has “a substantive law created” and it would be up to Cabinet to decide issues such as the amount required to be invested before PR could be granted.
The final initiative currently being worked on by the IRT is the removal of the requirement for a child or grandchild of a Caymanian living abroad to be a legal resident before applying for Caymanian status.
“At the moment you cannot apply for status unless you become legally resident on the Island. But the only way to become legally resident is to have a work permit. That has created real problems because people who have lived away and want to come back have found themselves in a catch 22 situation where employers are saying they won’t give them a work permit because they don’t want to hire a work permit holder, and that they should come back only when you have Caymanian Status.
"There is a backlog of applications which cannot be dealt with because the individuals are not legally resident here. So we are removing the requirement of legal residence from that section of the law,” Bodden-Cowen explained.
The IRT is currently working on a paper to Cabinet and hopes the bill will be on time to be read for the November session of the House.
Google helps put Dead Sea Scrolls online
(BBC): Ultra-high resolution images of several Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts. The search firm lent its expertise in scanning documents to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Both amateur and professional scholars will now have access to 1,200 megapixel images. Five scrolls have been captured, including the Temple Scroll and Great Isaiah Scroll. Ardon Bar-Hama, a noted photographer of antiquities, used ultraviolet-protected flash tubes to light the scrolls for 1/4000th of a second. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 inside 11 caves along the shore of the Dead Sea, East of Jerusalem.
Stop the downward spiral
There is only one word which adequately describes the situation Cayman is in today – FAILURE: by our leaders (elected and official), by some parents; by the government education system; by immigration policies; by our police; by our development policies and plans (none existing); by our religious organizations to deal with the festering social issues; by the business community to adequately invest in local human capital because it was easier to import foreign cheap labour, while building wealth; by all of us for not recognizing that the good ship Cayman was heading for the rocks.
Why the Caymanian people are not mad as hell and demanding the resignations of their entire leadership is unbelievable. In any other democracy there would be demands for those in charge to accept responsibility and step aside, especially now that our dear leader thinks there is a conspiracy in the works against his government; but not in Cayman. Why?
For the past 25 years respective governments have been cajoling, spoon feeding and using the “left behinds” in our society for votes at election time, when they make them false promises, throw them a victory party and send them back to their holes of hopelessness until the next election, when they are trotted out again. This worked for several cycles, until the internet, social media and other wake-up tools became freely available and now the” left behinds” have figured out the truth and are takingmatters into their own hands.
Some time ago, some politicians stated that there was nothing which could be done to save this generation and that they would have to be written off. Well, that’s exactlywhat we did – but guess what! They didn’t go away and are back reminding us.
Cayman is now doing what it always does in an emergency – reacting, because it does not appear that we have plans to deal with anything – while continuing the very policies that got us into the mess in the first place. We lack the very ability to recognize the present position in order to make corrections. And forget about anyone admitting they may have made mistakes. How sad!
For Governor Duncan and Commissioner Baines, some advice:
Please visit immediately the families of all the victims; you may learn some things. You have to step down to their levels because they cannot step up to yours. There is none or very little communications with these folks, thus another reason they feel neglected.
Declare a “National Day of mourning” during a work day. Shut this country’s business down for a day (including alcohol sales) to allow our people to focus and realize how serious this situation is and understand that this is what life will become if these issues are not resolved now.
Encourage people to take the day to get out of their comfort zone and visit family, friends and acquaintances they may not have seen in a while. (Call it ‘touch a friend day’.) Cayman needs to take a long hard look in the mirror.
Take your NSC meetings on the road. Visit the districts and build bridges and listen to the people, not insult them like the premier does at every opportunity. Come prepared to listen not to lecture. Our people feel cut off from our government, therefore no reason to try and assist as they should.
This country is no longer on the edge of the cliff. History will show that September 2011 will be the month that we fell into the abyss and all indicators point to a continuous downward spiral. There are going to be rougher days ahead, so our people need to prepare themselves accordingly.
During the last election campaign I recall a candidate use the analogy of Cayman’s runaway development being like a moving train. The train was travelling so fast that it left some of the people behind and others kept falling off, yet the conductor (our politicians) wanted more speed. Well, those folks who were left behind simply decided to dig up a piece of the rail track, so when the train came back, it would derail. That derailment now has a name: “MURDER”. I thought this was a simple and practical analogy, and yet so few voters seem to grasp its relevance at the time.
Some months ago I heard on the radio a discussion about the contractors asking government to fund a skills training program for the unskilled, unemployed in North Side and they were asking for the equivalent of keeping one prisoner in jail for a year – CI$60,000.00; but the government would not support the idea as they claimed they could not afford it. Yet they could afford to give the churches $7 million and build a Hurricane Hilton in the Brac for some $9 million.
But the real reason they did not see fit to support it was political; it was not the UDP’s idea and they will not give anyone else credit for anything. The premier is only capable of seeing issues in one dimension: “politics”.
Perhaps they should reconsider the Brac monster and put that money in a “lock box fund” to help buy food and pay CUC’s billings for the poor to keep this place from turning into total anarchy. Don’t think it can’t happen. One year ago this week Colonel Kaddafi of Libya was addressing the United Nations General Assembly. Today he is hiding in a hole, untold numbers dead and wounded and Libya is in ruins. That’s the power of disenfranchised people when theydecide they have had enough. But unlike Cayman, Libya has oil. We are even short on turtles.
To those who are committing these crimes, I beg of you to stop now. You have made your point loud and clear. Youare killing your friends, perhaps even family members, and while you may think they are your enemies, most of you are too young to have enemies. Instead, put your energy into designing placards and signs expressing your grievances and peacefully demonstrate in the public domain so everyone can know you and help find solutions to your grievances, in order that we can all have a better life going forward. If you don’t you will certainly kill Cayman and we will all loose.
For us to get through this crisis and rebuild the country for the next generation it will require a new vision, new leadership and new policies and plans, which must be fully inclusive of all our people. We must abolish this political party divide that is destroying us; we are simply too small for it to work here.
Career politicians need to be replaced with individuals who have already made their careers on their own abilities. Those were the types of leaders our forefathers were and they worked together for the betterment of all so we could reap the benefits of a 40 year period of unprecedented success.
For those who feel reluctant to stand up and be counted, please remember, “He who has the most, has the most to lose.”
But we have children and God knows we cannot afford to lose any more of them.
Two injured in single vehicle crash in North Side
(CNS): A major smash involving a single vehicle closed the North Side road in both directions on Sunday in the heart of the district. The collision which involved a BMW occurred at around 7:30pm when the car reportedly smashed into railings close to the North Side cemetery. Both men inside the car, which was flipped onto its roof a considerable distance from where the car had collided, were taken to the George Town hospital. Although police have not yet confirmed the details of the smash or the condition of the driver and his passenger it is understood the men do not have life threatening injuries. (Photo Dennie Warren Jr)
Anyone who witnessed the accident is asked to call the RCIPS traffic management on 949 4222
No backdoors to status
(CNS): Workers who take up government’s rollover reprieve over the next two years will not be able to count that time in a permanent residency application, according to Sherri Bodden-Cowan, chair of the team of immigration experts tasked by the premier to give the Immigration Law a full review. The rollover suspension will not impact any other area of immigration law currently in operation, nor will it mean that all 5,686 individuals who may have been rolled over between now and 2013 will get to remain on Island or move to permanent residency and status. Bodden-Cowan has warned of a rigorous procedure where only the most needed workers will remain.
She told CNS that if someone is at their seven year term limit they will be allowed to apply for up to two year’s extension, which will allow them to continue to work, but this will not entitle them to count that time in a PR application.
According to the European Convention on Nationality (to which the UK is a participant), individuals who have been legally resident in a country for ten years should have the opportunity to become naturalised citizens of that country. Consequently, fears have arisen in the local community that thousands of people, if they take up the opportunity to apply for another permit after their seven years are up, will be eligible to apply for PR and ultimately status as a result of the suspension of the rollover policy, expected to come into effect in the next few weeks.
Ensuring that the extra two years does not count towards an individual’s permanent residency application was an important factor when deciding how to implement the rollover suspension, Bodden-Cowan explained.
“One of the challenges we face is that people are saying that this move is just a back door to granting Caymanian status,” she said. “Status can only be granted if someone has been resident for 15 years, and naturalised for five years. Giving someone a two year extension from year seven to year nine gets them nowhere near the criteria they would need for Caymanian status. The most that it could do is make them eligible to apply for permanent residency under the points system, if the fact that the law says it shouldn’t count is challenged.”
Bodden-Cowan said it was extremely irresponsible for anyone to suggest that this is a backdoor grant for status. Confirming that extensions for individuals approaching their term limit would only be granted to employers who demonstrate a genuine need for the worker, she added that employers will need to show that they have pursued every other possible avenue in their economic power given the size of their business to train, promote and replace that employee with a Caymanian.
The boards will have to be very careful to justify the need for employers to continue to employ such a person, she explained.
Even so, the extension period does not prevent any employer from applying for the position of key for any employee. And if that request is turned down by the board, the employer can reapply every three months.
Troubled kids to integrate
(CNS): The education minister has revealed that children who have behavioural problems in school will no longer be excluded from the mainstream education system and sent to the Alternative Education Centre. Rolston Anglin said that the AEC is going to close because it has been a “complete failure” as almost three quarters (73%) of former students are currently in jail or have been killed in gang violence. From now on, young people who behave badly in the classroom will be treated within the mainstream system by trained teachers. Those who have very serious behavioural problems that cannot integrate will, once it is completed, attend the new therapeutic centre being developed by the community affairs minister.
Explaining the new approach to dealing with troubled children at a public meeting in West Bay last week, the minister said that the country had to change how it dealt with troubled children as so far it had failed.
“The Alternative Education Centre has been one of the biggest failures this country has ever had,” he said. “Seventy-three percent of children and young people that have gone through the AEC are currently either dead or in Northward prison. That’s the reason why I have taken the decision that it is going to be disbanded and we are going to replace AEC with an inclusion system where we train our teachers and keep our children … even the most challenged, in school.”
There is going to be a small overlap in the school year as the new therapeutic community for young people being created by the community affairs ministry is not yet finished. He said that there would be some youngsters who cannot be integrated in to themainstream system and they will be accommodated within the new therapeutic centre which will be addressing juvenile offenders and young people with severe behavioural problems.
The new centre at Bonaventure, in West Bay, will eventually house the country's juvenile offenders unit as well as provide supervised accommodation for exceptionally troubled youngsters who may not yet been sentenced by the courts.
“There’s going to be some young people for which the mainstream system doesn’t cut it. We have to be realistic about that. Those young people, they will be taken care of and managed at the therapeutic community,” Anglin added.
He said that over the last six years or so, almost every one of the young men that have been shot and killed had not been in high school. He said that when people have called for an overhaul of the entire education system, what people really meant was a reform of how the system deals with at risk youth.
The minister told the people of West Bay that the system now had included technical training courses in the system and workplace programmes. He also said that a new secondary afterschool programme had started to deal with kids between between 3pm and 5:30pm, when it is believed children are most at risk, and some 450 children had already signed up.
“We are trying to get an extended an afterschool programme in every single district for primary schools,” he said, adding that the George Town sports club had taken ownership of the programme that is going to be run out of George Town. He said that educators have known for a long time that between 3pm and 6pm was the most vulnerable time for young people but there has never been any kind of school based activity to fill that time.
Rolston said that the vast majority of the young people currently involved in the gangs did not start after they left school but were already involved in that activity and long before they finished school. “It is often a contributing factor to them going up to AEC and ultimately out of the school system,” the minister stated.
During the meeting the problem of a lack of job opportunities and career progression for Caymanians had been raised by West Bay resident and advocate for local opportunities, Mervin Smith, who pointed to the rising unemployment among local young people as a key contributing factor in the rise in violent crime. He said many of them did not have jobs, whether through choice or circumstance, but one of the young men murdered in West Bay recently had been looking for work and despite making many applications he had no calls back for a job.
Smith spoke for a number of people when he that he believed the forthcoming removal of rollover was likely to make things worse for young people who were failing in the job-market.
However, the education and labour minister said that while creating opportunities for young people to find work was very important and government had to put in mechanisms to create opportunity, it was how the country dealt with its at risk youth from an early age that would influence the levels of criminality.
The AEC was created for students aged 12 to 17 years who had been excluded from high school and was intended to create a different kind of learning environment for troubled youngsters.
Jamaican PM stepping down
(Jamaica Observer): Bruce Golding, prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), will not be seeking re-election at the party's annual general conference in November and will step down as prime minister as soon as a new leader has been elected. In a statement on Sunday the JLP said Golding conveyed this decision to the party's Central Executive at its quarterly meeting. “Golding said he had planned to lead the party into a second term of government and demit office within two years thereafter. He said the challenges of the last four years have taken their toll and it was appropriate now to make way for new leadership to continue the programmes of economic recovery and transformation while mobilising the party for victory in the next general elections,” the statement said.
Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Mike Henry said the Central Executive of the JLP has unanimously voted to reject the decision of the leader of the party, Bruce Golding, to step down in November.
Meanwhile, the People’s National Party (PNP) has called on Golding to call elections now, in light of the announcement. The PNP made the call Sunday’s meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) where it called on Golding “to call the general elections to resolve the crisis of governance in the country”.
Prison fights ‘cell’ phones
(CNS): A new machine acquired by HMP Northward will help in the fight to stop inmates getting access to mobile phones and SIM cards, which officials believe may be contributing to the current surge in violent gang killings. Prison authorities have admitted for some time that cell phone use by inmates is a significant problem. The governor revealed Friday that police suspect the ‘orders’ for some of the recent killings could have come from inside the prison walls via cell phones. The new BOSS II, which was bought by HMP Northward using a donation from the FCO, is a hyper-sensitive, non-invasive metal detector that can pinpoint where on the body a visitor or inmate could be hiding something as small as a SIM card.
While regular body scanners may pick up cell phones — though as phones get smaller and slimmer they too become harder to detect — SIM cards are particularly difficult for prison officers to find as they are much easier to hide. With SIM cards in their possession, inmates can share just one phone inside the prison, enabling them to not only intimidate witnesses, carry on illegal businesses such as drug trading and keep in touch with gang members, but also, as authorities now believe, they can use the cards and cell phones to order hits on people outside the prison from literally inside their cells.
The chair, which cost $7,500, was unveiled in the visitor’s room at Northward Prison on Friday morning when Governor Duncan Taylor explained that it works a little like an airport scanner. He said it would make it much more difficult for the cards and phones to be smuggled into the prison and improve security.
“We face a challenge with prisoners who are bringing contraband, mobile phones and SIM cards into the prison, which allows them to make inappropriate contact with people on the outside,” the governor said as he revealed the concerns that the latest frightening surge in violence may have connections to the prison.
“Cayman is in a very difficult place at the moment following five murders in eight days,” the governor said on Friday morning when the chair was unveiled to the media. “We believe that there is some contact between the criminals in Northward and some of the people involved in these crimes in the last few days.”
Dwight Scott, the prison director, said that sweeps were being conducted throughout HMP Northward to try and locate the phones and cards. He said that this issue was one of the biggest headaches in all corrections facilities and they were doing everything they could to try and find them. He explained that phones enable people in prison to continue their criminality, from ordering murders to carrying on their drugs businesses. Although the technology to detect phone signals does existy, HMP Northward does not have access to it.
The chair, Scott said, was only one of the tools that the prison continued to use to tighten security and he explained that it would also help prevent weapons getting inside the prison walls. Although the prison does not have a reputation for excessive violence or a particular problem with weapons, Scott said it was important to remain vigilant. The director pointed out that the chair will also help to detect weapons, such as prison-made knifes, known as shanks, or razor blades.
During a demonstration of the sensitivity of the chair, it was able to detect a paper clip in the mouth of one of the prison officers. Scott said the chair was also mobile, meaning it can be used to scan new inmates, visitors, staff, prisoners after they have had contact with visitors, or when they are returning from court, and it could also be used for spot check searches.