The Editor speaks: Youth offenders are not high priority
The Cayman Islands Chief justice, Anthony Smellie, did not mince his words when he gave his speech at the 2016 opening of the Grand Court. On the subject of youth offenders he said: “We are obliged to note the ongoing…
The Editor Speaks: If the Internet was to shut down…..
For most of Saturday (16) my Internet was down. It was fine up to 8:30am and then was no more. Like a car that was working fine when you left it and when you come back it won’t start. Frustrating…
The Editor Speaks: Unemployment
I can fully understand why, with an election looming, Premier Alden McLaughlin has intimated unemployment is a blot on his landscape since he has been in office. There is no doubt ex-premier McKeeva Bush is going to canvass very hard…
The Editor Speaks: It was more than “Unfortunate”
It was ironic on the same day we published our Front Page Story “Cayman Islands tops list as safest Caribbean Island” we have to also publish a story of a local scumbag who robbed three elderly vacationers from Kentucky USA….
The Editor speaks: Stay put
I am dismayed that Bodden Town MLA Alva Suckoo has followed Anthony Eden in resigning from the Progressives – the party that took him under their wings and promoted him to become a Member of the Legislative Assembly. I doubt…
The Editor speaks: A painful dream
I often dream and most of the time if I wake up immediately I know what the dream is about but in the morning whatever it was has gone from my memory – vanished forever. There are some, however, that I do…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman’s #1 story – Jeffrey Webb
The name of Jeffrey Webb once was taken with pride. The man who had it all. The prince who was going to turn the tarnished name of the world’s #1 sport into a new regime of honesty and openness. He…
The Editor Speaks: How to save football
David Dein, former Arsenal and FA vice-chairman, outlined at BBC Radio 5 Live Sportsweek that he believes the only way FIFA can restore its reputation is to put the organisation into administration. The football veteran did accept that this was…
The Editor speaks: Power
Does everyone want power? And when you have had a taste of it do you want to give it up? My answer to the first question is “YES” and to the second “NO”. Just look at the stories we have…
The Editor Speaks: Zero tolerance by police and purple ribbon
With zero tolerance again being promised by our police over the Christmas Season and the New Year there is good news for those who want to revel and drink more than they should. The National Drug Council has managed to…
