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The Editor Speaks: Did you remember St Valentine?
Did you remember St Valentine’s Day was last Saturday Feb 14th? I expect you did. And did you celebrate it? I expect most of you did. It is the day of love. Hallmark, the largest card publisher uses the day…
The Editor Speaks: Plans to call for Baines removal on hold. Let’s campaign for rehabilitation!
Thank goodness we have some commonsense shown by the minsters of our government calling for Cayman’s Police Commissioner, David Baines, removal at such a critical time. And there have been recently some pluses with arrests for murder suspects, illegal weapons,…
The Editor Speaks: NO to MANDATORY cancer register
This is the first time I have republished an Editorial of mine in full but nothing has changed to alter my opinion except to harden it. One of our FRONT PAGE stories is headed “Mandatory Cancer Registry Bill released for…
The Editor Speaks: Ash Wednesday is NOT a holiday for Mardi Gras
This is the third Editorial I have written on this and until the day I die I will be campaigning against the use of our Ash Wednesday for parades, loud music, dancing in our streets (in front of our Country’s…
The Editor Speaks: Ganja debate smokes again
“Many of our near and far neighbours have joined the wave of common sense on decriminalising ganja as well as expunging records to allow many of the unemployed to get on with their lives. Support for this has even come…
The Editor Speaks: Ignoring iguana problem is insane
All of us who live here in the Cayman Islands must have noticed the invasion of the green iguanas that seem to be increasing in numbers every day. It isn’t “seeming” at all – it really is. We have visiting…
The Editor Speaks: Shhhh! LGBT being discussed
Do you remember the uproar when on February 1st 1998 the Cayman Islands Government refused to let a cruise ship full of gay vacationers dock here that touched off calls for a boycott of the islands? In a letter to…
The Editor Speaks: Why didn’t we invest in top line CCTV equipment?
I am totally at a loss at discovering the CCTV equipment bought by the police is not top quality and of a standard that cannot produce evidence acceptable in court. What is the purpose of a camera that doesn’t take…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman Island honorees, names get forgotten – eg. Doc Poulson
There is nothing wrong with honouring the men and women that have made significant contributions to the of the Cayman Islands history. I applaud it. However, it is often puzzling that some names are left out. Names that come to…
The Editor Speaks: More discrimination against the aged
I am aged. You might be too and if not happily you might get to be aged. Actually ‘happily’ does not generally go with being aged. This is not the first time I have written on this subject but nothing…
