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The Editor speaks: Is it premature to remove our Speaker?
I have lamented in some of my Editorials at the slowness of some members of the Legislative Assembly to get pressing legislature passed quickly. Some take months and some take years. Some remain stalled, seemingly forever. Not so when it…
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The Editor speaks: MLA wants more details re-Speaker’s “leave of absence”
It would appear “The Cayman Compass” has become the media house of choice for our government as most of us also in the media have had to go to “The Islands favorite newspaper” for information regarding Speaker McKeeva Bush’s statement…
The Editor speaks: The assault on the West Bay Road by ??/?? – UPDATED
“Police continue to investigate the assault that took place on Friday 21 February at the Coral Beach. The parties involved were all said to be present between 8:30PM on Friday 21 February and 12:30AM on Saturday, 22 February. “Police are…
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The Editor speaks: Our plastics ban is ludicrous
We have published today a Press Release re- “the Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Stakeholder Committee is in agreement to recommend restrictive legislation on certain single-use plastics in the Cayman Islands effective at the start of January 2021.” The Release continues: it…
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The Editor speaks: Was Cayman punished by the EU or was it our own fault?
Just a few weeks after the UK left the European Union they place us (a British Protectorate) on their list of non-cooperative jurisdictions regarding tax issues. We missed passing a crucial piece of legislation before a key deadline by a…
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The Editor speaks: Government accounts are nearly there but NOT nearly enough!
Auditor General, Sue Winspear, is ‘delighted’ in the progress our government departments have made over the past FIFTEEN years in getting their financial reporting executed in time. Most, anyway, but there were some serious exceptions. FOUR out of the forty…
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The Editor speaks: Too many carnivals? Will there be a “Sweet Peg”?
Can you have too many carnivals? In Haiti they can’t have too many carnivals. However, this is largely due, according to Paul Sanaon writing on the Mirvaldy-intelect website, due to the Haitian politicians who “are wired to use carnival as…
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The Editor speaks: Rudeness to customers at fast food outlets
We hear continually of customers being rude to employees of restaurants, especially in the fast food businesses and even throwing food at them. Disgraceful. However, I have had experiences the other way round and other persons have reported to me…
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The Editor speaks: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”
The above is one of the most famous lines from the pen of William Shakespeare. It’s from “Hamlet” and although my quoting it has nothing to do with the character in the play, it came immediately to mind when I…
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The Editor speaks: Where hate is protected. Here in the Cayman Islands?
Since my condemnation, in a recent Editorial I wrote, against MLA Anthony Eden’s attempt (that succeeded) in linking one of the reasons for our recent earthquake to God’s vengeance on the LGBTQ brigade, I have been taken to task myself…
