The call for resignations seems to be in the air this Christmas season.

We have had the wolves baying at the door of Police Commissioner David Baines to resign and now it is the turn of Health Minister Osbourne Bodden to hear the howls and even his Chief Officer Jennifer Ahearn.

Resign!

What exactly M/s Ahearn has done wrong to warrant North Side MLA Ezzard Miller’s call to resign is quite beyond me but when the minister has a radio audience he likes to be controversial, no matter how ridiculous.

For those who missed our story in iNews Cayman and the other media house reports the Bodden/Ahearn saga concerns Bodden, acting like a bully last week, behind closed doors on the fifth floor of the Cayman Islands Government Administration Building, but so loud was his voice that ‘dozens’ of the members of the public heard it.

Bodden was berating and using foul language aimed at Ahearn, his Chief Officer. Can you imagine what it must have been like for her to be in the same room with this giant beast of a man shouting and cursing at her? Ahearn is a slim woman. The fact that his words could be clearly heard through a closed door bears witness to the mental suffering this poor woman suffered.

And Miller calls for her resignation?

So by his Bible the victim must lose their job and resign if they are bullied?

His reasoning, without knowing any of the acts, is that he doesn’t think the ministry could function properly in the wake of what happened.

I agree with him on one thing there – he doesn’t think.

Has he spoken to both parties and received an explanation? No. Neither party is wisely, especially Ahearn, saying nothing. But Miller can pass judgement.

Resign! I don’t have the facts but resign!!

The person, of course, who will have to at some time make a comment publicly is the Minister of Health. He must show at least and for the record that the two of them can work together and it was all just a hurricane in a teacup. He must be contrite and say he has full confidence in his Chief Officer. M/s Ahearn should also be present and smile and say we move on and learn from this.

If they do not do this the Millers and, of course, the Leader of the Opposition McKeeva Bush will make political capital of it.

Bush has acted more wisely than Miller. He publicly said he doesn’t have all the facts and his charge is of course at the Premier Alden McLaughlin. The premier cannot whitewash this and says it happens all the time. It doesn’t.

Hmm. I wonder if all his former Chief Officers when he was Minister for Tourism and Finance would agree with that?

Bodden has apologized said McLaughlin.

But what has Bodden said.

Nothing is OK for now. But it is not OK forever.

The resignation call will not go away because silence in this case is golden. The media loves it.

I needed something to write about today.

I am resigned to it. Even when I don’t have all the facts.

UPDATED:

See Breaking News “Minister Osbourne Bodden moves to Community Affairs” at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/minister-osbourne-bodden-moves-to-community-affairs/

As of 1 January, 2015, Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin will assume the role of Minister of Health and Culture. His Chief Officer will be Ms Jennifer Ahearn. Minister Osbourne Bodden will assume the duties of Minister responsible for Community Affairs with Ms Dorine Whittaker remaining as Chief Officer of that Ministry. Councillor Mr. Roy McTaggart will be attached to the Ministry of Health and Culture while remaining Councillor for Financial Services.