At 6:35pm tonight, unless we all sign this petition to send a strong message to the Cayman Islands Government, Cayman 27 will shut down it free television!
Please sign this right now and share to keep Cayman 27 on the air, the ONLY station in Cayman to provide free public programming of local content consisting of news, weather, sports and live coverage of community events including school graduations which is not broadcast by any other station in the Cayman Islands!
"I, the undersigned petitioner and registered voter in the Cayman Islands, direct the Cayman Islands Government to put to a people-initiated referendum vote prior to December 2019 the question as to immediately waive, as a concession to Cayman 27, any regulatory fees which will preserve the only television station in the Cayman Islands that provides free local television content to tens of thousands of households some who are not otherwise able to afford to pay for this service.
WHEREAS Cayman 27 is the only television station in the Cayman Islands providing free public programming of local content consisting of news, weather, sports and live coverage of community events including school graduations which is not broadcast by any other station in the Cayman Islands.
WHEREAS without the Cayman Islands Government’s immediate intervention to waive, as a concession, to Cayman 27 any regulatory fees, it will directly cause Cayman 27 to shut down broadcasting effective 6:35pm on Friday, 30th August 2019 to tens of thousands households, the majority of generational, elderly and struggling Caymanian households who can only afford to get this local content and news from Cayman 27 because it is free.
WHEREAS this Cayman 27 matter is also of national importance because the Cayman Islands must have independent television providing public programming other than the government television, or any perceived or actual influence or control relating to its programming content and coverage.
We therefore place before the registered voters of the Cayman Islands this people-initiated referendum question as to whether those registered as electors in the Cayman Islands give their consent for the Cayman Islands Government to waive, as a concession to Cayman 27, any regulatory fees.