Cayman Islands Opposition Leader, McKeeva Bush, said he was incredulous at the findings of an internal investigation into an employee at the Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) who allegedly watched pornography on a government computer.

Bush said the employee was accused of visiting more than 1,600 porno sites or links in one month.

During the investigation the employee was suspended but the findings from the investigating committee found there was uncertainty who had used the computer to view the pornography.

Bush accused the CIAA of gross interference in the investigation and said it was obvious who the employee was who had viewed the pornography. He said he had possession of a letter that indicated this and said the computer that was used had a password that only two persons possessed. The other person, not accused, was off island at the time the sites were viewed.

Bush made his remarks at a Finance Committee Meeting of the Legislative Assembly and the chairman, Marco Archer, intervened when Bush started to list all the porno sites, saying it was sufficient to say the employee had “visited these sites”, and questioned what this had to do with budget appropriations.

Bush intimated that the employee was of some standing and if it had been anyone else it would “already had come out” and the suspended employee had been paid for a long time and rules were broken.

After six hours of debate on the matter Archer called a halt to it suggesting the complaints commissioner’s office, or even the Legislative Assembly itself, not Finance Committee, would be a better place to deal with the issue.

However, Premier Alden McLaughlin, although saying the government regarded it as a very serious matter he would not agree to nominate a select committee to look into the issue. He said government would make their own inquiries into what happened at the CIAA.