Deputy premier sends message from Middle East
Posted on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 09:17 in Local News
(CNS): The deputy premier and minister responsible for the postal service is currently in Doha, Qatar, where she is attending the Universal Postal Union’s 25th congress. In a message to mark World Postal Day (Tuesday 9 October), Juliana O’Connor Connolly reported that Cayman won a bronze medal for its express mail service at the event. Sending the message home from the Middle East as Cayman joins the rest of the world in celebrating the official observance of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Berne, Switzerland in 1894, she said the local postal service (CIPS) is still holding its own in this era of developing technology and could compete on the world stage.
According to a release from the minsitry and from the conference officials, the minister, accompanied by her chief officer and postmaster general, is joining some 2,200 delegates gathered at the conference to discuss the future of the postal sector, adopt the organization's work programme for the next four years and refine the rules for international mail exchanges among the UPU's 192 member countries.
Despite a changing business landscape, the postal service remains an important means of communication. According to UPU statistics, worldwide mail services deliver nearly 445 billion letters every year. The postal service is increasingly tied to newer means of communications involving electronic transactions and is at the end game of ecommerce -- that is, delivery of packages.
See ministers' full message from Doha below.
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I think she must get some
I think she must get some good idea to stimulate her constituency. Maybe she can build a couple more post office over there and get them paved the parking lots.
This would be a good trip for
This would be a good trip for the Captain to go to. Been a
while i never hear them sending him off the Island. Let all the UDP members get a fair shot at travelling. Sured it would worth it than this moron.
I'm sure they could find a
I'm sure they could find a better paying job over there so they wont have to come back.
I sent a payment to Canada by
I sent a payment to Canada by Express Post, which they lost for approximately six weeks. So even though I paid the extra money to have it trackable (and "express"), all they were able to tell me was that it was last seen in Miami. Hardly award winning service!
Has Juliana lost her marbles
Has Juliana lost her marbles completely? While we are all here hanging on by the skin of our teeth to our homes she's blowing away our money like there's no tomorrow at some fancy hotel attending an utterly meaningless conference, or whatever you want to call it, accompanied by a couple of pen-pushers. Then to rub salt into the wounds sending us an asinine message about some ruddy bronze medal Cayman has "won". Well, I'm sure we're all beside ourselves with excitement at the news. That's great, Juliana, I mean, really great.
I'd be interested, and no doubt appalled, to find out what the final bill to the Caymanian public is for this piece of total bloody nonsense. (Pardon my French but the longer I spend typing this the angrier I'm getting so I'd best leave it at that and go chop some bush or something to cool off.)
15:46, why would you presume
15:46, why would you presume she has any marbles? has she ever shown evidence of such things? She only survives because successive governments for 30 years keep pouring masses of money into the Brac simply to keep them quiet and get votes. It's a dreadful waste of money and lots of consultants have said so over the years but we are held to ransom by around 1500 people (most of whom have free health care and "seamens" pensions). Can anyone believe it? Why the eff do they have 2 MLAs for a part of the Cayman Islands that is tiny and contributes next to zero revenue???
WTH?? How is this justifiable
WTH?? How is this justifiable or prudent in these austere times??
How can we constantly suck and pay all these fee increases whilst Government is making absolutely NO effort to curtail unnecessary spending and live within their bloody means!!!!
This is an indictment on the people of these Islands. This is infuriating!!!!
This Moron travels all over
This Moron travels all over the world on our dime and we get nothing but the bill. She makes me ill.
A friend of mine working in
A friend of mine working in Doha says Julianna is staying at the most expensive hotel - nearly $1000 dollars a night. He couldn't find out where the "entourage" is staying. Can anyone add to this information? I am hoping to get more tomorrow.
20:18. I am told she is in
20:18. I am told she is in the Four Seasons hotel. I am too fed up with her and the UDP to bother googling their rates but we know she will be in the most expensive place because she likes to push this line about how wonderful it is that a "brown skinned, barefoot girl like me" after hard work etc etc can make the big time. Christ, it is so sad for our country. When will it stop?
I checked the list at
I checked the list at http://dohacongress.upu.int/participation/hotels/. Of the 28 hotels listed, the Four Seasons has by far the most expensive rooms going by the basic room rate.
Is that double occupancy?
Is that double occupancy?
Sadly many will crawl out to
Sadly many will crawl out to vote her back in in 2013.
Is this to train the Cayman
Is this to train the Cayman postal service not to destroy or open other people's private mail?
The mistake many Ministers
The mistake many Ministers make is that they do not travel regularly enough, so when they do it is a big deal. How else is she going to know what is going on on the world stage with the subjects she has been given.
Her only mistake is that she shud a travelled much earlier in her term.
You're joking, right? Because
You're joking, right? Because if you're not you are in dire need of a brain-transplant.
The list of "official" hotels
The list of "official" hotels for this conference along with the prices per night can be found here: http://dohacongress.upu.int/participation/hotels/
It would be very, very interesting to know which one JOCC and her entourage are staying at, given the country's financial problems.
I hope someone does an FOI
I hope someone does an FOI request on this.
CNS: We have made FOI requests about the travel during this administration of both the premier and the deputy premier.
This bronze medal makes me
This bronze medal makes me feel proud of the Cayman Postal Service every time I check my mailbox.
Which is never because, like the rest of the country, I don't have a mailbox because Cayman doesn't have a full postal service.
But hey let's not let that stand in the way of a junket to the postal conference. I am sure the deputy premier is doing important work for the country there. Maybe she'll get seated next to Joe Biden or Nick Clegg?
The real scandal is that we
The real scandal is that we only find out about these pointless ego-fuelled jaunts after the visit has stated. What we need, as a revenue saving measure, is for all cabinet ministers to publish six months in advance all proposed international travel and the planned budgeted expenditure for that travel. That should shame them into behaving better, but this is Cayman and it won't.
I don't think that's how it
I don't think that's how it works. More like, "where shall we go next week?" "how about the middle east?" "OK, I'll ask my assistant for a list of conferences, don't worry they're well catered and we don't have to actually do any work, and it's first class all the way!"
For crying out load is this
For crying out load is this for real.....
I do trust JuJu didn't post the message home to us because unless CNS has a time machine then we would all still be waiting for the damn thing to be delivered ....
This really has to be the most blatant waste of public money I have ever witnessed by this Government, absolutely shocking. This convention is totally and utterly meaningless, especially to the Cayman Islands, a country that has NO postal delivery system to speak of and a very badly run distribution network.
Surely the FCO or Governor should be clamping down on this sort of behaviour - I thought excess spending had to be approved under the FFR terms these days ....
Public sends back message to
Public sends back message to Minister "Stay where you are, and never return to grace our shores. Pretty please and thanks in advance."
Postal conference is
Postal conference is important. The medal will be cited amongst the UDP achievements in office for upcoming elections.
I, for one, am breathless to know more about this prestigious award! And the Travel medal mac went to Turks to collect the other day too.
Go UDP!
Crap, I clicked thumbs up
Crap, I clicked thumbs up because I thought this was sarcasm!
Is it worth pointing out that
Is it worth pointing out that in 2010 the CIPS won the Silver medal? (based on 2009 performance) (http://news.upu.int/no_cache/news/news-details/article/record-awards-for-service-quality///42c56639bcbe3a3c1c865a2e87c9230f/)
Should we be pleased that after JuJu's supervision we has tranformed that into a Bronze level performance?
For those of us who can't afford to fly, you can join the conference now by webcast - perfect for learning what you want without having to leave your dependants far away. (http://dohacongress.upu.int/congress/webcast/)
Absolutely shameless behaviour. When will these ministers learn?
Just reading this pushes me
Just reading this pushes me ever closer to going postal myself.
Can I please go to the 2nd
Can I please go to the 2nd European Annual Packaging Summit in Germany on the 15th January 2013. To be followed by the Nuclear Power Asia Summit in Malaysia on the 16th January 2013. Thank you.
So thats it? She goes there
So thats it? She goes there just to send a stupid message back about a meanlingless postal award? How is that representing the people that elected you? There is a joke that says the problem with political jokes is that sometimes they get elected and boy we have plenty of them here!
shameless............
shameless............
VOTE THEM OUT!
VOTE THEM OUT!
What?! Vote who out? Never,
What?! Vote who out? Never, we don't want our pretty roads up here in Bracwonderland to be taken back up!!!!
A country that doesn't bother
A country that doesn't bother delivering mail is third on the planet?!?!
Well done Caymanians, you
Well done Caymanians, you voted in drunks, gamblers, morons, fools, thieves and yes men
Going to do it again?
The money spent on this trip
The money spent on this trip would have been better spent on improving what can only best be described as an abysmal postal service.
Eugene is too busy fishing, I
Eugene is too busy fishing, I see him eating his lunch in Alfrescos telling people what he caught today.
If I didn't have to go to work I'd be fishing too.
telling people?.....i didn't
telling people?.....i didn't know he could speak....
Are their any readers "in the
Are their any readers "in the know" who can enlighten me on this: Who decides and approves government travel and personal expenses? Or do the politicians just make up their own mind to go, grab their CIG credit card and jump on a plane without having to justify it to anyone? Because if there is a body that is required to review and approve then there will be paperwork and budgets that we can get under FOI.
No message from the driver?
No message from the driver?
This is a joke... Mail from
This is a joke... Mail from UK used to take 7 - 10 days - now its at least 6 weeks. The cost has gone up - and the service has gone dismally down!
I've had a postcard arrive in
I've had a postcard arrive in less than 7 days from the UK.
...and I had a Christmas card
...and I had a Christmas card sent from uk arrive 2 years and 3 months later! Some consistency on the good deliveries would be nice.
Next time they should it
Next time they should it address it properly. That is probably not due to failure at CIPS.
Sorry Sheena or Melissa, that
Sorry Sheena or Melissa, that is NOT the problem with our mail.
Yes, and ask anyone...it is a
Yes, and ask anyone...it is a true story that one of my wedding invitations arrived to a local Caymanian dear old aging Uncle a YEAR AFTER my wedding! The wedding was here on island. Another guest did not show for the event and only after inquiring I found out not got their invitation! Folks, this mail never even left our shores and could not be delivered? Shameful....
Sorry Ju Ju, there is no reason for you to travel to this event. Retail phone shopping in Spain either, your wasteful ways are a disgrace.
I'm all for the OCCASSIONAL perk of a good conference overseas, but you and the UDP have made a bad habit out of taking the public purse for any first class trip you can go to and it is shameful.
Today we read that property insurance charges are going up, last week another tax on goods. services, operating costs?? All while you and your greedy cronies live it up?
You ought to ALL be tar'd and feathered and run off the island. I hate to even think that you will enjoy a fat retirement while we all still work to make ends meet.
Shame on you and the rest of our lazy, greedy, horrid politicians- shame on you.
Yeah, sometimes 7 days,
Yeah, sometimes 7 days, sometimes 7 weeks and sometimes 7 months.
At least this is how long it takes for my weekly magazine subscription to arrive.
It is like a time machine, June arrives before May but after July.
And don't get me started about those tracking numbers, there must be a big black hole around here somewhere.
Aah.. you never said someone
Aah.. you never said someone brought it in their pocket!
Must have been a year or so
Must have been a year or so back then, it used to be a good service, its just in these last few months it has gone downhill.
Good service a year ago?
Good service a year ago? Surely you jest!
Six weeks? You should be
Six weeks? You should be grateful. Leave off the zip code and I guarantee you will not receive it at all, because Sheena is determined to send back every single piece of mail that arrives without it.
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