The Editor Speaks: Wily Bush’s ‘One Man, One Vote’ statement. Ezzard and Arden reply
You have to hand it to our premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush – he is one wily politician. With signatures on the petition for a people initiated referendum on ‘One Man, One Vote’ steadily mounting, the premier cleverly announced on Friday…
The Editor Speaks: Crime is topic of the day again
There was some encouraging news to report today. Justice Charles Quin on Thu (23) found Raziel Jeffers guilty of the murder of Marcus Ebanks and guilty of the attempted murder of Rod Ebanks, Joe Bush, Jose Sanchez and Adryan Powel….
The Editor Speaks: Ash Wednesday: shootings, Mardi Gras, et al
Ash Wednesday, when I first came here and long after was a most pleasant day. The big attraction was (and thankfully still is) the Agricultural Show. From its humble beginnings on the George Town Cricket Oval to its own ground…
The Editor Speaks: Local merchants dismay at proposed George Town cruise facility
The present UDP Government has a number of hot potatoes boiling on the stove and none of them are very appetising to a lot of people. The one making the biggest news at the moment is the proposed George Town…
The Editor Speaks: Two drownings and a rescue
It was a very sad weekend to learn of two drownings. The first was particularly terrible as it involved a four year old child who drowned in a local pond in Northward on Saturday (18) afternoon. Twenty-four hours later a…
The Editor Speaks: Drugs in Northward drive me bats
It is shockingly no surprise to learn that for a second time in a week Cayman’s favourite ‘weed’, ganga, has been found in staff offices inside Northward prison. Since my editorial, “Prison and rehabilitation,” in last Wednesday’s (15) edition of…
The Editor Speaks: Shouldn’t completing our schools be the highest priority?
The Clifton Hunter High School that was scheduled to open for Easter with all the accompanying hoopla has now been delayed until September. Wow. We are not talking about a few weeks but SIX months! The reason given by Hon….
The Editor Speaks: One man (meaning person) one vote
As we reported yesterday (14), East End and North Side MLA’s Arden McLean and Ezzard Miller launched their campaign at a public meeting in East End for “one man, one vote”. The meeting was held in the parking lot of…
The Editor Speaks: Prison and rehabilitation
It was with some dismay, but not shock, to read the newly published report from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) that found the rehabilitation programmes we believed were in place were completely neglected. The report was commissioned…
The Editor Speaks: A love blog day
It is St Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. On this day we think strongly of our partner, wife, husband, lover, mother, father and even our pets. Love on this day is often an interpersonal attraction, desire, romance…
