By Peter Polack

Peter Polack

Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Managing Director  Cindy Scotland has failed to respond to allegations against retired Cayman Islands Monetary Authority official Langston Sibblies who was appointed as the Director of Public Prosecutions for Grenada five years after leaving law school with no prior experience in prosecutions. 

Sibblies experience with a financial regulatory authority prior to his employment with CIMA in 2000 is unknown.

Sibblies was recommended and given a Queen’s honour as well as being appointed to many government boards including the Law Reform Commission and the Judicial and Legal Services Commission during his employment with CIMA that started in 2000. The Cayman Islands Judicial and Legal Services Commission regulates and appoints judges.

Sibblies was also appointed to the Financial Services Commission of Jamaica in 2021 but resigned in January 2023 after the Usain Bolt fraud scandal was exposed.

In an email of 10 April 2023 Scotland was queried on the following matters:

1. Comment on the three recent IEye News articles to include The Grenada Gulag book extracts and any knowledge of Langston Sibblies as the Director of Public Prosecutions during the Marxist regime of the People’s Revolutionary Government in Grenada of Maurice Bishop that included the criminal, unlawful incarceration and harm to hundreds of democratic leaning political opponents.
2. Comment on any information or knowledge of penetration of the Cayman Islands government entities including the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority by former Marxist revolutionaries and members of the Jamaican Communist Workers Party of Jamaica of which Langston Sibblies was an official member.
3. Comment by on any information or knowledge of penetration of the Cayman Islands government entities including Cayman Islands Monetary Authority by Russian direct and indirect agents.
4. Comment on any information or knowledge of whether Langston Sibblies had any experience with a financial regulatory authority prior to his appointment to the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority in 2000.
5. Comment on any information or knowledge of Langston Sibblies having only five years experience as a lawyer when appointed Director of Public Prosecutions during the Marxist regime of the People’s Revolutionary Government in Grenada of Maurice Bishop that included the criminal, unlawful incarceration and harm to hundreds of democratic leaning political opponents.
6. Comment on Langston Sibblies, a former official of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, resigning as Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Financial Services Commission due to the Usain Bolt scandal.

Scotland has not commented on the allegations and has chosen to remain silent. During the Sibblies chairmanship of the Law Reform Commission the Cayman Islands, the Police Law was amended by section 149 to allow an adverse inference to be drawn when an accused person chooses to remain silent.

A 2 March 2023 Freedom of Information request on whether CIMA performed a background check on Langston Sibblies before employment led to the CIMA response below:

From: FreedomOfInformation (DL) <[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 7:48 AM
To: ‘Peter Polack’ <[email protected]>
Cc: Helen Spiegel <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: FOI Request – CIMA

Dear Mr Polack

Please find attached our correspondence of yesterday’s date.

Kind regards

FOI Team 
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

Main: (345) 949-7089
Email: [email protected]
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NOTE: We have asked Cayman Islands Monetary Authority for a comment