Cayman Officials Kept In Dark By UK Over Human Rights Convention Applicability

The United Kingdom is responsible for the international relations of the Cayman Islands. In February 2006, the UK extended the European Convention on Human Rights, and the right to petition the European Court of Human Rights, to the Cayman Islands (as well as a number of other territories). However, according to today's Cayman Net News, Britain never bothered to inform the Cayman Islands Human Rights Commission that the action had been taken. HRC commissioners apparently found out about the action when a dispute over whether or not the Convention applied in the Cayman Islands appeared in the press.