The Editor Speaks: Who should I vote for?
This is a very difficult choice as listening to the candidates, reading the manifestos or plan are, as Lewis Carroll commented, all “much of a muchness”. There is no one person from either party, or coalition independents or ‘true’ independents,…
UPDATE: CNS replies – Jamaican “Gleaner” reports: UCC’s Thompson threatens to sue Cayman newspaper
Cayman News Service (CNS) have published a reply on their website together with the source material from Dr. Herbert Thomson. Wendy Ledger, CNS journalist says: “Since CNS has always maintained a policy of publishing source material so that its readers…
The Editor Speaks: Is this another plot by the Governor?
When our ex-premier McKeeva Bush receives bad publicity (that seems to be flowing well at this moment) he hits back with cries of plots by the Governor, or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or the Commissioner of Police, or a…
Dart says Cayman government is in breach of their legal obligations
“The failure of Government to do what it is committed to and legally obligated to do, as well as the public acknowledgments by Government that they are fully aware they have been in breach since May 2012, negatively impacts Cayman’s…
The Editor Speaks: No man. Manifesto no. Man, we have The Plan
The CoalitionforCayman (C4C) have come under fire and some ridicule from their political opponents, namely Cayman’s two parties, The Progressives (PPM) and the United Democratic Party (UDP) for not producing an election manifesto. The Progressives hit out at the C4C…
The Editor Speaks: At last C4C become clear (almost), PPM say thank you with an attack and Mac is a believer
The last 24 hours has been interesting. I will start with the very last first. This morning, after my two Editorials on the subject of why don’t the independents tell us whom they would not support if it came to…
Flare gun, mask and bayonet seized during house search – Man in custody
A man has been arrested and is currently detained in police custody after an early morning raid on a house in East End. About 5.45 am today (Wednesday, 15 May) officers searched a house in John McLean Drive, East End….
The Editor Speaks: Am I a lone voice in saying how unimpressed I am with the Independents’ campaign?
I can still remember the excitement when the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) came on the scene last year at the end of November when well over a thousand of us assembled in the AL Thompson’s parking lot. We wanted a…
The Editor Speaks: The Value for Money DART/NRA isn’t quite as good as it seemed
The Editor Speaks: The Value for Money DART/NRA isn’t quite as good as it seemed I am not surprised the Dart Realty Cayman Ltd (DRCL)/National Roads Authority (NRA) deal isn’t the superlative deal we had been led to believe by…
The Editor Speaks: Why is it not surprising DART said “No more”?
DART has come in for almost merciless criticism and downright hatred from politicians, would be ones, activists, groups of concerned citizens and from all quarters of Cayman’s community. I expect he is praying hard that the United Democratic Party (UDP)…






