The Editor Speaks: Complaining about Complaints
It is astonishing that Franz Manderson, now Deputy Governor, should have written to the Office of the Complaints Commissioner (OCC) concerning an investigation Nicola Williams had executed, not only asking her to revisit her decision but in a previous email…
The Editor Speaks: What really is the picture in the Caribbean?
You only have to watch the syndicated US game show “Wheel of Fortune” to hear the words “Prize Puzzle” and the winner’s face and audience reaction when the prize is a trip to the Caribbean. Cruises to the Caribbean are…
The Editor Speaks: More on Frankenstein mosquitoes, transparency and accommodating
My Editorial at the weekend (4-6 February) headlined “Frankenstein mosquitoes and transparency” prompted an email from Dr. R. Guy Reeves of the Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie whom I had quoted. This is what he wrote: “Dear Editor “I am the author…
The Editor Speaks: The good the bad and the ugly
After the good news that shot over yesterday’s (7) Editorial comes the bad. Three masked armed men made off with a small amount of cash and stole a car after terrorising a man and a woman in their home in…
The Editor Speaks: What a packed weekend
It was a packed weekend. For us in Cayman we had the fabulous John Legend Concert at Camana Bay that was packed (as my wife says) “to capacity”. Whether you like Mr. Legend’s music or not you have to admit…
THE EDITOR SPEAKS: Frankenstein mosquitoes and transparency
There has been much publicity in the world wide press regarding the release of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes here in the Cayman Islands by the UK firm Oxitec. On Grand Cayman, where we have the Aedes aegypti, a mosquito that…
The Editor Speaks: A home used to be a castle
The idiom “An Englishman’s home is his castle” was established in common law by English lawyer and politician Sir Edward Coke (pronounced Cook), in “The Institutes of the Laws of England”, in 1628: “For a man’s house is his castle,…
The Editor Speaks: A taxing editorial
Big brother is certainly looking down on you, especially if you were born in the USA. As “The Economist” once wrote, “The national anthem calls America ‘the land of the free’. Great reformers from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King…
The Editor Speaks: When is a dump not a dump? Electricity is silent
Mount Trashmore is a dump in George Town but it is a waste management facility in Bodden Town. If Government had plenty of money we would not even be discussing this. The Waste to Energy option is the only solution…
The Editor Speaks: When is “Taste of Cayman” not a taste of Cayman? Port Authority escape
The one striking thing missing from this year’s Taste of Cayman was the lack of native food. When one reads the title of the event, to the casual reader and visitor, one might expect to be able to see and…
