It was with some amazement that I listened to Cayman’s Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush speaking on Radio Cayman last Thursday (19) evening.

Mr. Bush announced he would be setting up a bipartisan committee to examine the idea of creating eight districts on Grand Cayman, each returning two members but retaining the status quo on Cayman Brac, and also to look at “other options.”

“While I don’t believe that single member constituencies are good for the country, I want to continue to work for equality and a system that is fair,” he said. “I would propose we continue the discussions as to whether our present system should be examined without being skewed by the prism of so much politicisation and whether we should consider moving toward a new system of all multimember constituencies, with eight electoral districts for Grand Cayman of roughly the same number of voters each and each electoral district returning two MLAs.”

Even though nearly the whole world adopts the One Man, One Vote single member constituencies, Mr. Bush maintained they had “dangerous elements” without saying exactly what these “dangerous elements” were.

His proposed system, where eight double-member constituencies would be created on Grand Cayman with as equal a number as possible of registered electors, would give each person one vote each. The top two candidates would be returned to the country’s parliament.

Mr. Bush described himself as a leader that looked at all the angles of how people feel.

Now that was really amazing.