It seems incredible that despite serious allegations made against the chief financial officer of the Cayman Islands Airports Authority before Christmas and more recently its CEO, Jeremy Jackson, the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) have received no complaints to their anti-corruption or financial crime units.

Problems at the Cayman Islands Airport Authority (CIAA) were kept largely under wraps, until North Side MLA, Ezzard Miller, who had received a bundle of leaked documents via his truck, disclosed them to CNS.

The documents that contained a confidential report about serious mismanagement at the airport and the misuse of public money included supporting documents.

Jackson had been suspended on full pay but he was not dismissed until after the story first appeared in CNS and was then followed by Cayman’s other media houses including iNews Cayman.

Miller told CNS that he had grave concerns the authorities were attempting to either keep the entire situation secret or were planning to sweep the issue under the carpet.

For his pains, Miller received an indirect scathing condemnation by the CIAA’s chairman, Richard (Dick) Arch, who said in a statement:

“The Board is dismayed and disappointed that the audit issues and report have been leaked to the media, clandestinely or illegally.

“The Board maintains that there should be irreconcilable differences of emphasis between the dissemination of gossip material and confidential institutional reports that may have consequential and direct personal effect on individuals.”

He then took aim at Miller implying he had a “desire to court electoral popularity” and “our management and our functions must be above politics.”

He even suggested that because a board member had leaked the documents it made the “inevitability of a suppressive state possible.”

Apart from saying the CIAA were commissioning ANOTHER review of the board’s audit by an independent firm there was no mention of any police involvement either then or in the future.

The CIAA statement was issued on February 26^th and there has been complete silence on the matter ever since.

With Mr Arch saying in his release: “The Board of Directors has but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to make the CIAA the best managed statutory authority in the Cayman Islands,” I have to ask him WHEN are we going to hear and HOW? WHY is there just silence and HOW much longer are you going to wait before calling in the RCIPS?