The Editor Speaks: Innocent until proven guilty but you stay in jail until trial
Brian Borden is accused of killing Robert Mackford Bush in September 2011 in a West Bay gang-related shooting. Borden will not go to trial until January next year. This will mean he will have been imprisoned without trial for more…
The Editor Speaks: Immigration changes imminent
Premier Alden McLaughlin has announced that an immigration reform proposal is being tendered for next week and will be going to the Legislative Assembly prior to the 28th October deadline when thousands of non-Caymanian workers are due to be sent…
The Editor Speaks: Abuse of company/government credit cards
We have highlighted a story in iNews Cayman today re a Virginian Governor, Bob McDonnell who has been accused of misuse of a state credit card. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Our ex-premier McKeeva Bush is also facing similar charges except…
The Editor Speaks: Speeding police cars cause accidents
It is a very difficult decision for a policeman to make when he decides to chase a car at great speed. The policy of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) is to immediately notify a senior police supervisor that…
The Editor Speaks: Mental health is law but not enacted
In March this year government published the Mental Health Law 2013 that gave the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands power to remand prisoners who are unfit to stand trial and also provided many additional provisions. Legislators repealed the old…
The Editor Speaks: Independence
With Thursday July 4th being United States Independence Day commemorating the day the country declared independence from Great Britain there is a huge debate now as Scotland considers to part ways. And Cayman’s independence has been simmering beneath the surface…
The Editor Speaks: Times are [a] changing
It was a very interesting first speech by Cayman Islands’ new Minister for Financial Services, Wayne Panton, in the Legislative Assembly last week. After intimating that attitudes towards the Cayman Islands may be changing based on “anecdotal evidence” of this…
The Editor Speaks: Death by falling
Could the two persons who have fallen from two buildings recently here been prevented from doing so? The first question to be asked is did they fall on purpose? We have had two recent incidents in Cayman. The first one…
The Editor Speaks: Spammers
iNews Cayman has been continually and is still being hit by spammers. They seem nearly always to attack us on a Saturday evening between 6:30pm and 8:00pm. This has been going on for nearly twelve months when the spammers at…
The Editor Speaks: Bush recruitment service and…….
Bush recruitment service and board members engaged in unethical practices It shows just how much ex premier McKeeva Bush thought his power was absolute. He even recruited workers to be employed by government. Not that they did anything. This was…
