It is somewhat woeful when a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) accuses the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) of “many atrocities” with little or no evidence to back up such a statement.

Because he can use the privilege of the Legislative Assembly (LA) he can make these disgraceful attacks on the very body that is there to protect him.

I wonder if the MLA, George Town representative Ellio Solomon, actually knows the meaning of the word “atrocities”?

The Oxford Dictionary gives the definition of “atrocity” as “an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury”.

Webster’s Dictionary describes it as “an atrocious act, object, or situation” and quotes Aldous Huxley – “the sufferings and atrocities of trench warfare”.

Another definition describes “atrocity” as “an act of extreme heinous cruelty.”

The only act he could mention to justify the atrocities that occur under Police Commissioner David Baines’ watch was when the police commissioner misled (his words) the LA when he told Finance Committee that no assault of a junior cop by a higher ranking officer had occurred when it was later exposed that, indeed, an assault had been alleged and investigated.

Solomon said this was the “tip of an iceberg inside the RCIPS as it appeared the police answer to no one.”

He tabled a motion in the LA that was debated on Thursday (14) asking government to address the issue that wasted valuable time to address far more important and sensible matters.

Not content with this nonsense, he then brought in Operation Tempura so as to substantiate his claim that the only government departments that cannot be investigated by the Office of the Complaints Commissioner were those “that are the instruments of the UK government”.

How many times have I warned the Governor he was making a huge mistake in opposing the Complaints Commissioner’s ruling? This is going to be used against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for years to come by certain MLA’s who cry “Independence”.

“This is not about kicking out jolly old England,” Ellio thundered. “There is a need for an equal and level playing field. People are sitting in ivory towers and subject to no one”.

Ivory towers?

According to the Gospel of Solomon (the Ellio one) the United Kingdom operate a one way at home and another abroad.

If Solomon had just pointed out the need for a change of law and not have the police investigate themselves, something he should have done 3 ½ years ago, I would have agreed with him. Less is more, Mr. Solomon, especially when you don’t know the meaning of some of the words you use!

Next we have suspended Electricity Regulatory Authority Managing Director Joey Ebanks who has accused the RCIPS of making “fictitious” charges against him in order to get rid of former Premier McKeeva Bush’s political compatriots.

He said the man behind this conspiracy was Governor Duncan Taylor who was being instructed by the FCO.

““Britain wants to destroy Cayman; they only want the cash transacted here in their banks so that they can tax it and further sustain their social welfare system that has caused them to be in serious economic problems,” he said in an interview with Cayman Net News.

So Mr. Ebanks is now an authority on Britain’s economy!

He made wild statements concerning a project he had formulated that would have eradicated dependency on foreign fossil fuels, which did not sit well with the British government. The project would guarantee income to Caymanians, he said and he had an overseas investor who wanted to lease properties and roofs for solar generation.

For some strange reason that he couldn’t explain, except the British Government was not interested in Caymanians progressing, he claimed it was because of these proposals he was being “hunted down”.

Didn’t the RCIPS report they had discovered a drug utensil?

His non-disclosure of anything to back up this nonsense was because he was bound by confidentiality obligations and a code of conduct, pursuant to paragraph 11 of his employment agreement.

Yes, of course, Joey.

PS. Mr. Ebanks is now taking aim at North Side MLA Ezzard Miller calling for an investigation of Miller for official corruption. This pertains to when Miller was Chairman of the Work Permit board from 2004-2005 and involves correspondence between Miller and management of Ritz Carlton on recruiting employees from Cuba for the hotel.

The UK’s FCO haven’t applied all these nefarious tactics, however, on another of its territories. The Falkland Islands.

In a referendum vote to determine the Falkland Islands’ future political status, on 10^th and 11^th March they voted 99.8% to remain a UK Overseas Territory.

Hurrah!

The country that wanted to oversee them was Argentina.

Now wasn’t Ellio talking of “atrocities”?

In 1976, the Argentine military launched a major counterinsurgency campaign. By the end of the year, thousands would be illegally detained, tortured, assassinated or disappeared. Among the victims that year, there were half a dozen American citizens. In this shocking and detailed statement given by one of those victims to the State Department in Washington, she reports that her captors “…started using the picana (an electric prod). Then they tied me down and threw water on me… They questioned me but it was more just give it to her. There. There. There. In genital area… They said they’d fix me so I couldn’t have children