Thankfully, it is a rare occurrence for Cayman Airways to be involved in accidents, especially hitting an obstacle. Last Friday (30) I received a message around lunchtime that a Cayman Airways plane had ‘crashed’ into a building at the Montego Bay Airport, Jamaica upon landing. The report came via a third party from one of the passengers on the plane. It said further that no one was hurt. You can imagine the picture in my mind of a plane coming into land and hitting a building!

After making enquiries, and this took a while, it was found that the ‘building’ was the jet bridge and the ‘crash’ was the tip of the aircraft’s left wing coming into contact with a jet bridge! The flight was CA KX621 and a spokesperson for the airline said the bridge had been hit whilst the plane was taxiing to the gate. CAL said the bridge was incorrectly positioned on the tarmac and the marshal directing the CAL plane was unaware of the potential obstacle. The captain reportedly felt the brief impact but the airline claimed it was not detectable to the 45 passengers on board and the aircraft taxied to the gate normally. Well, the captain was wrong ,it was detected.

Maintenance checks confirmed the need for the aircraft to remain in Montego Bay until replacement parts are flown in for repairs and the flight’s onward departure to Grand Cayman was delayed out of Montego Bay until after midnight.

Other flights were subsequently delayed up to an hour on Friday afternoon and through Saturday but Cayman Airways said it had contacted all affected passengers.

To the blogger on another website that sarcastically said, “Of course, it was Jamaica’s fault!! How strange!” – when an aircraft is taxiing in he cannot look behind him and the wings are behind him! He relies on the marshals – that’s why they are there!

Police Commissioner, David Baines, said at last Wednesday’s (28) Chamber of Commerce ‘Be Informed’ presentation on the UK Bribery Act and its potential influence here in the Cayman Islands, “because the Cayman legislation had not come into force until 2010 and had at the same time repealed previous legislation, it had created some real issues for us, as we can only deal with the offences after the date, unlike the UK where old legislation has been left in place to deal with previous offences. We have some fairly significant issues that had taken place earlier. The UK act could have been a way to address them, but although it was modern and appropriate legislation, it could not apply to earlier issues either, so there was a gap that needed to be addressed for Cayman-initiated investigations that deal with incidents or offences that occurred before 2010.”

Nothing is easy is it? Who was it who said “the law is an ass”? It’s almost like  a roulette wheel – the odds are in favour of the criminals and the lawyers get paid whoever wins. The more complicated the laws the more monies they make.

So what exactly is the Commissioner saying…………? Is this the reason a certain inquiry into a leading politician is taking so long? Is this the prep before the announcement?

Strange, but when the police really want to prosecute they can search all sorts of legal statutes going back centuries to find some legal basis for issuing a warrant and proceeding. When they don’t want because of who the person is the reverse is also true.

Of course, I have no such person or case in mind. I’m just throwing out a few ‘herrings’ and it doesn’t matter what colour they are.