The Editor speaks: Elections expenses revealed but is it the truth?
The Elections Office has released the summary of Elections Expense returns as reported, by political parties’ and individual candidates for the May General Elections. See iNews Cayman story at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/cayman-islands-elections-office-posts-candidates-expense-returns/ During the final eight weeks of the May General Elections…
The Editor speaks: When silence is not golden
I was at a small gathering of members of Elmslie Church last night and a debate followed the presentation by a visiting pastor on “Salt”. Like most debates the subject broadened out past the confined barriers of the original subject…
Caribbean geopolitics rejects somaliazation of Venezuela
By Beatrice Rangel From Latin American Herald Tribune Former Venezuela Presidential Chief of Staff Beatrice Rangel reveals what machinations led to the release of Leopoldo Lopez by the Maduro regime in Venezuela. The world was not fully awakening to what…
The urgent need for a public anti-corruption task force in the US Virgin Islands
By Soraya Diase Coffelt, JD, MJS From Caribbean News Now On June 30, 2017, the US Virgin Islands Inspector General issued a 76-page written report with scathing findings, entitled Audit of the Department of Education’s Inventory Controls over the School…
The Editor speaks: Nothing to do
When one reaches retirement age many get very tired because they have ‘nothing to do’. Under the heading “Retirement, A Cruel and Unusual Punishment’ the article goes on to say: “Can you imagine being retired with nothing to do? Would…
The Editor speaks: Should we legalise non-lethal weapons for citizens with no violent convictions?
An online petition has been launched urging our government to legalise non-lethal weapons for citizens with no violent convictions. This is what the petition argues: “With a major spike in home invasion, burglary, assault, domestic abuse, and rape in Cayman…
The Editor speaks: This bird is not singing
Please see my last two Editorials on The Three Little Birds One of our three birds is not singing. Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) vice president Bruce Blake, the first of two local men arrested by anti-corruption investigators last week…
The Editor speaks: The three birds have finally sung
Following on from my Editorial yesterday “Three Little Birds” re the Cayman Islands Football Association’s seemingly deaf and dumbness to their former President and current VP Bruce Blake’s arrest FINALLY we have a song from them: “Cayman Islands Football Association…
The Editor speaks: “Three Little Birds”
CIFA Favourite Song: “Three Little Birds” “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.” Even after the revelation that the first man arrested last Thursday in connection with a corruption and money laundering investigation being…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Caribbean rights in the OAS: not negotiable
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Kaieteur News Online Amid the finger-pointing and blaming over votes at the Organisation of American States (OAS) on matters related to Venezuela, the fundamental problems of the Organisation have been overlooked. Sadly, and wrongly, media…