The Editor Speaks: Should civil servants have outside employment?
The Caymanian Compass reported recently they had now received answers to a Freedom of Information Law request they made “to ministries and portfolios seeking information about public servants who declared having private gainful employment or business interests, how many public…
Elections Office: issuing of voter cards – UPDATE
The Elections Office is extending the hours during the weekday for Voter ID cards in order to ensure as many persons as possible have the opportunity to receive their ID. The last day to collect a voter’s card from the…
The Editor Speaks: Accidents do happen and stop vandalizing/stealing election posters
It is extremely unfortunate that an elector was accidentally struck off from the register of voters. Mistakes do happen and it always pays to check. The Elections Office admitted it was a mistake on the part of its staff. However,…
The Editor Speaks: Sometimes it is not a good thing to ‘hedge your bets’
With a seemingly wave of public discontent with the past United Democratic Party (UDP) Government but claiming the mess our country is in is mainly due to the party system and not its leadership, the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) candidates…
PWD conducts shuttering exercise
Members of the public are advised that the Public Works Department (PWD) and the National Roads Authority (NRA) will carry out their annual hurricane preparedness exercise on Thursday May 2, 2013. As part of the exercise PWD and the NRA…
The Editor Speaks: ICTA’s reluctance to get involved
It is not strange the Information Communication Technology Authority (ICTA), who is responsible for managing content on radio and television broadcasts in Cayman, have declined to act over Ezzard Miller’s formal complaint to them. The North Side MLA, Ezzard Miller,…
The Editor Speaks: Glidden tells all
Not surprising, when election time comes around a candidate will want to distance himself from someone who by association will not help his cause. West Bay MLA, and Cayman’s Tourism Minister, Cline Glidden, who had been elected over his last…
The Editor Speaks: Is it right to bash Cayman’s churches?
Over the past weeks some of Cayman’s media have led with stories brandishing Churches receive X$, Premier’s church receives X$, Church gives back X$, Another church gives back X$ and finally “Churches get $600K in 2013”. Then the Progressives get…
The Editor Speaks: A dilemma for voters wanting a change
With so many voter candidate options and the seemingly wave of opinion opting towards change, the Cayman voters are in a dilemma. The People’s Progressive Party Movement’s (PPM/Progressives) leader Alden McLaughlin pointed this out at the Party’s rally last Thursday…
The Editor Speaks: We shout, we cry, we want answers but we won’t listen and we won’t show up
The Coalition to Keep Bodden Town Dump Free has an impressive amount of backers. Public opinion seems to be swinging their way. The two previous United Democratic Party MLA’s, Mark Scotland and Cline Glidden, who had supported the Dart Group’s…





