The Editor Speaks: Thank you Mac for the laugh of the week
I am still laughing. Lots. I have to thank our ex-premier (and as he likes to be now known, Cayman’s First Premier), McKeeva Bush, for making it happen. I was with the cheerful Eastern Avenue “boys” and Mac supporters on…
The Editor Speaks: I told you so…….
On February 11th I wrote: “After a quiet few weeks a storm is brewing” I started off my Editorial, “With Government announcing that the Dart Deal was a Done Deal as it relates to the closure of the West Bay…
The Editor Speaks: Will Cayman ever get an environmental minster who actually cares?
Seemingly, every Cayman Islands Minister for the Environment taking that responsible position for a long time now has been dragging their feet on every proposal put forward by the Department of the Environment (DoE). What is worse, the present minister,…
The Editor Speaks: The new thieves’ code
After a week or so of sympathy at the chronic conditions prisoners have been enduring at our police cells and Northward Prison, it has been tempered by the spate of robberies and some make me sick to my stomach. The…
Editor Speaks: BB guns are dangerous
It was with horror when I received the news last Tuesday (12) of a gun being recovered close to the Clifton Hunter School in Frank Sound. That it turned out to be a BB gun, known in my day as…
Jesus got angry – Colin Wilson has gotten furious
Ash Wednesday is a holiday here in the Cayman Islands. It is a RELIGIOUS DAY!! Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar. Occurring 46 days before Easter, it is a moveable fast that can…
The Editor Speaks: After a quiet few weeks a storm is brewing
With Government announcing that the Dart Deal was a Done Deal as it relates to the closure of the West Bay Road last Thursday (7) I was waiting for a storm to break. I am not surprised to hear North…
The Editor Speaks: Teen fire case opens up another fire
Hot on the heels of the damning report by the UK’s prison inspectorate that looked at the police custody cells in George Town and West Bay and found the conditions appalling and barely fit for human habitation, on Thursday (7)…
The Editor Speaks: Maths passes amaze
It is amazing the revelation that 70% of Cayman Islands students fail the mathematics examinations. It is amazing that only now, Minister of Education, Rolston Anglin, who has been in the job for 3 ½ years, has said he now…
The Editor Speaks: Diplomacy is dead in the water
Roger Cohen writing in the New York Times said last month “DIPLOMACY is dead”. He says, “This is an age of impatience, changeableness, palaver, small-mindedness and an unwillingness to talk to bad guys. Human rights are in fashion, a good…
