On CITN-Cayman27’s “The Panel” on Tuesday (1) Premier Hon. McKeeva Bush said emphatically “I have done nothing wrong.”  This was in relation to the three police investigations against him that are ongoing at this time.

“On advice of my Attorneys,” Mr Bush said, “I have said nothing about the police investigation regarding the real estate transaction involving someone else which started over two years ago. This was to give the police time to investigate it fairly, properly and without bias. Upon conclusion of that investigation I will be exonerated that there is no illegal activities on my part whatsoever.

“In light of the two new investigations, which were announced publicly by the governor last week without notification to me, and the fact that over two years have passed and there is still no closure to the initial matter, it is evident that these so called investigations are nothing more than fishing expeditions which have been conducted on baseless grounds, and without substance, nor merit, in an effort to ruin this country.”

Mr. Bush then brought into question mysterious people in the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth office and asked the opposition and the people of the Cayman Islands to “put aside their political differences to see what it really is – a ploy to destroy this country and change the Cayman Islands forever.”

“I have always stood in the way of the Foreign office on a lot of matters much more than the opposition would ever dare do,” he stated. “It is a fact I am not guilty of anything. I have not done anything illegal, other than to stand up to the power that be over the years; and this is simply because they cannot drive me where they want to drive me, and they are prepared to do whatever they can to embarrass me, and they could probably lock me up if they could, but I have done nothing illegal.”

Also on the programme was Hon. Rolston Anglin, Minister of Education, Training and Employment, who also alluded to these mysterious people by saying as a young Caymanian he is worried for this country because of people “who are accountable to no one.”

Mr. Bush said he would not step down. “I’ve not been talked to. I’ve not been charged with anything.  I’ve not been cautioned by anyone, so I am not stepping down or resigning because the PPM want the position.”

He attacked the opposition whenever he could, regarding the investigations as a political matter and saying it was clear to him “the opposition has a lot more information on the matters than I do. They are continually on the radio making outrageous statements instead of trying to encourage business and investment into the country so that our people can get back to work.”

Alluding to MLA Ezzard Miller, the premier claimed, “There is a member who lives on the radio and appears to have one great ambition and that is to be the premier at all costs.”

He said, “If it was left to the opposition we would have had income tax and property tax and every other tax you can think about that the Labour Government [who were in power in Britain when the PPM were governing Cayman] wanted. But in regard to the antics of the opposition, usually, and if I was going to file a No Confidence Motion, I would await a verdict. But they are ravenous for power and so power hungry they can’t wait. They don’t have any plans for this country and therefore they are out to get me, the premier.”

He made it clear that when he was ready he would deal with it but that they should not be filing no confidence motions against him when there were no charges or substance to the allegations. He said the opposition, the governor and the FCO were all after the same thing, which was “to get McKeeva out because they can’t control him.”

He warned about what could happen if he was removed as premier.

“If I am removed, let me ask you and anybody else, what would stop anyone making an allegation about the next premier and you move him too, or her too? Where does it stop?”

Then the premier became passionate saying, “I am a worker first of all. I have worked night and day for this country so it would not sink.”

Mr. Anglin said it was of paramount importance that “due process is followed and some appreciation for the integrity of our system. It has been eroded away over the last 12 months.”

He said the opposition was trying to raise money to go to London, “for what?”

He also raised the question why the subject of the first police investigation, Mr. Bush, had not even been questioned over the two years it had been first raised.