The Editor Speaks: Animal abuse
It is a shocking blot on our landscape that abuse of animals is not taken seriously here at all. It is no use the RCIPS saying I am wrong and they do. I have to say to them “Show me…
The Editor Speaks: Caymanian lawyers suffer difficulties
I was horrified after reading Abraham Thoppil’s (President, Caymanian Bar Association) address at the 2017 Opening of the Grand Court. Whilst the president congratulates Government on “grasping the nettle and presenting a ” Legal Practitioners Bill “that the CBA can…
The Editor Speaks: Court building – soon come or not come soon
In the Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, Anthony Smellie’s, 2017 Report he again brought up “this perennial subject of concern” – The Court Building. The Chief Justice seemed optimistic last year there would be start on such a project….
The Editor speaks:Norman failed to conquer
I was so sad to learn yesterday (11) that Norman, the red-footed booby bird rescued by wildlife volunteers in the UK, had died. Norman was discovered on a southern English beach Sept. 4, 2016, some 5,000 miles from his nearest…
The Editor speaks: The “Would Be MLA Bill Boards” are going up
With a May election coming up fast – I can assure you the older you get life ticks away even faster – so the bill boards are going up. In fact in all the elections I have seen here I…
The Editor speaks: Cool
Yesterday’s Editorial was “Hot”! Today’s is “Cool”. Around many Christmases/New Years here in the Cayman Islands I have experienced Nor’westers, flooding, etc. especially my early years. I remember one real bad one that decimated the old Turtle Farm before it…
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The Editor speaks: A boxing gym…. but what has happened to our football?
It was good that Manny Pacquiao attended the groundbreaking event for the Bodden Town Boxing Gym last Saturday(7). I hope the actual building of the Gym doesn’t take another four years to actually get built and opened just before an…
The Editor speaks: Culture
The government has unveiled its National Culture and Heritage Policy & Strategic Plan 2017-2026. Our premier, Alden McLauglin in his Foreword said “This document has been drawn from and put together through existing instruments, strategies and policies, which comprise culture…
The Editor Speaks: The meaning of Christmas
I send you Christmas greetings and much happiness for the New Year. 2016 was a surprising year and one that will be mostly remembered for terrorism and Trump. Let us then remember what Christmas stands for. The child of Christmas…
The Editor Speaks: And a very Happy and Merry Christmas to you Mr. Bush
Writing on his Facebook Page, West Bay MLA and Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush wrote this week (Dec 15): “People who know me … know that if I say I’m going to do something, I do it even when it hurts…
