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The Editor Speaks: It rained but the golden sun still shone

As I listened to Cayman’s new Premier, Hon. Alden McLaughlin’s speech on Wednesday (29) at the long Swearing In Ceremony, I marveled at the rain pouring down from the dark clouds but it wasn’t stopping the sun shining on the…

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The Editor Speaks: How did this law squeak through without a whimper?

With all the emphasis on the elections and the closure of the West Bay Road a piece of legislature was passed in the Legislative Assembly that had much significance on our islands planning regulations without a whimper. There wasn’t even…

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The Editor Speaks: Rivers sings with no strings

Tara Rivers first impression on winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly in Cayman’s Election and breaking the West Bay Bush cartel was one of delight and a lot of people were singing. Unfortunately in a matter of a few…

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The Editor Speaks: I am disappointed and fearful for our country

The news as I write this editorial is disappointing. So much for “putting the country first”. The slogan of the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) today is “putting me first”. My delight at C4C candidate Tara River’s election and the Progressive’s…

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The Editor Speaks: Important Cabinet Decisions Made

The Cayman Islands next premier, Alden McLaughlin had a very hard job in making his seven Cabinet appointments. McLaughlin doesn’t have a clear majority from his own Progressives (PPM) party having won nine out of eighteen seats. Tara Rivers and…

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The Editor Speaks: It’s finally over

Of all the elections I have witnessed this one was the longest. Not to receive the final result until the following morning at 8:45am with an electoral vote of less than 15,000 persons to count is just not good enough….

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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,…

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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…

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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…