The Editor Speaks: Auditor General says two ministries have tendered appalling accounts
Whilst Cayman Islands Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, in his latest report on the government’s finances has found some improvements in accounting and efforts to produce them on time for audit the quality was still not good enough. What is worse…
The Editor Speaks: Peter Polack highlights slowness to FOI requests in the very place it should not happen – the Judiciary.
Cayman lawyer Peter Polack has been making a number of Freedom of Information Requests with some success but it has largely been a battle. I must commend his perseverance. The main area Polack has met resistance and incredible slowness is…
The Editor Speaks: What steps are being taken in Cayman to make directors more accountable?
I am asking this question more especially to the hedge fund boards. There is a tightening up of the banking rules in other financial jurisdictions but I haven’t heard of anything being proposed here in the Cayman Islands. In a…
The Editor Speaks: St Luke
How many readers knew that last Saturday (18) was St Luke’s Day? So what? Well, St Luke was the writer of the third of the Bible’s New Testament Gospels and he was a physician. With the raging diseases that the…
The Editor Speaks: Do you look at your vehicular number plate?
I must admit I hardly ever do. I don’t even know the registration number that is on the plate. It’s just there. Or is it? iNews Cayman Publisher, Joan Wilson, discovered recently her front number plate was missing from her…
The Editor Speaks: Should police randomly check persons from their roadblocks?
Cayman Islands lawyer Peter Polack has made a very important point when he asks the question are officers from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service breaking the law when they temporarily detain drivers during police roadblocks and checks? Polack has…
The Editor Speaks: Duped?
Former Deputy Premier Rolston Anglin says he, along with his former government members, were “duped” by those behind the move to arrest and charge former Cayman Islands premier McKeeva Bush. Whilst I can accept his call, along with his other…
The Editor Speaks: Bush verdict came as no surprise
I suppose the only mild surprise to me was it took the jury 5 hours to reach a unanimous verdict to find ex-premier McKeeva Bush Not Guilty to his 11 charges of misconduct in public office and breach of the…
The Editor Speaks: We can learn a lot from Mary
The Mary I am referring to is Mary Slessor? Have you ever heard of her? Probably now as the publicity machine has been rolling advertising the play “Mary Slessor: Great White Ma” that opens Thursday (9) at St George’s Anglican…
The Editor Speaks: Renewable energy? Pie in the sky?
Whilst most of the Caribbean is actually going ahead with renewable energy, nearly all being solar power, we in the Cayman Islands will be stuck for another 25 years with diesel. Oh yes. I do know and have heard what…
