In the Face (Book) of Death
Any of you FaceBook members? Maybe it was because today is my 63rd birthday, but when I logged in today up popped an advert saying, “”Nearing your 65th birthday? Then don’t delay. £10,000 life insurance from £1.16 a week. Cover…
Beauty And Mythology
Beauty is a universal concept that is hard to define but is understood by all. For instance, we may struggle to explain ourselves when asked what is beautiful to us. But if we are asked to point out a beautiful…
EDITOR SPEAKS : Fine speech by the Chief Justice
Chief Justice Hon. Anthony Smellie gave a passionate speech at the UCCI conference last Thursday (22) when he warned of emerging threats to the independence of the regional judiciary. He said there was a trend towards extra-judicial bodies overseeing judges,…
How safe is it to live in South Africa?
This article was sent to me for publication and was said to be written by Ronel Pretorius, a lady living now in Auckland, New Zealand, who left South Africa in January 2007 when she was 29. However, the same article…
The Editor Speaks: Secrecy
The Cayman Islands, since the publicity from John Grisham’s best selling book “The Firm” that was also made into a movie (and partly filmed here), has wallowed in the word ‘secrecy’. Secrecy and Cayman are ‘married’ together in people’s minds…
The meaning of dreams
The interpretation of dreams is as individual as the people who dream them and was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by people with certain powers. There are many records available…
Even at night you can still have solar power
My friends at Care2 sent me this interesting article written by Jake Richardson A very large solar power plant in Spain produces electricity even at night. It does so by storing heat produced in the day with its 2,600 mirrored…
Andrew is always angry
It was in a home where anger was used to control everything where Andrew grew up. Not only was anger used to control the children but also Andrew’s parents used it even to control each other. Andrew and his siblings…
The Editor Speaks: Baron Blencathra comes for a visit
David MacLean, Baron Blencathra, a Scot and a Conservative Party life peer, is coming here for a visit with three MPs from the all parliamentary party group (APPG) for Cayman. Baron Blencathra will be arriving next week and will have…
