The Editor Speaks: Police going “great guns”
It’s about time we gave some kudos to the Cayman islands RCIPS. We are quick to malign them but not so quick to congratulate them. Have you noticed what has been happening recently? Arrests and more arrests followed by charges…
The Editor Speaks: Deputy Governor’s Minutes
We have published the Minutes of the Deputy Governor and Chief Officer’s Meeting from 25th June 2012 and we must compliment Franz Manderson for sending them to the media each month. One of the main items on the Agenda was…
Letter to the Editor: by Florence Goring-Nozza
OMOV Computer Scientists and engineers say that “ THERE IS NO TRUE VOTING UP OR DOWN BUTTON ON the Internet! And that there is always tampering for political reasons. For politicians on news media and other social websites that is…
The Editor Speaks: Stunned again
I was stunned again on Tuesday (10) when I received a comment to my Editorial that appeared in iNews Cayman on the same day sub-titled “Stunned”. I was writing about documents that had been “discovered” by North Side MLA, Ezzard…
The Editor Speaks: Curiouser and curiouser
Those two words are surprisingly not included in the Oxford English Dictionary, even though lesser, newer creations are. No, it’s not good or “proper” English but it immediately strikes a chord in your brain far more than saying, “This is…
Letter to the Editor: Anonymous
We are not all asleep. There are thousands of Caymanians well aware that something is very wrong with the one man one vote. It’s not as lovely as it sounds. This is numbers and electoral boundaries we’re talking here, and…
4 Reasons why bananas kind of suck
Just a few days we published an article from Care2 under the title “15 Surprising Uses for Bananas by Katie Waldeck”. Again from Care2 we publish an article by Eric Steinman* that doesn’t exactly sing their praises: If there is…
The Editor Speaks: Stunned
The documents’ release by Independent MLA for North Side, Ezzard Miller, to CNS which appear on their website, have me stunned. If you haven’t read the story there, the bare bones is that, “Dart Realty (Cayman) Ltd will be taking…
Hedge Funds Are Not Like Banks (and That’s Okay!)
By Kevin Roose writing in The New York I can’t decide what the funniest thing is about Azam Ahmed’s Times story* (which expands on a FT story last year) on the ludicrous world of Cayman Islands–domiciled hedge funds and their…
Understanding accountability in OMOV and SMC
As we draw nearer to the Referendum on 18 July 2012, much has been said concerning one man, one vote (“OMOV”) in single-member constituencies (“SMC”) and the attendant equality of voters. Therefore, by now, everyone with an open mind probably…
