The Editor Speaks: Storms brewing – one in the Atlantic and two already here
With Invest 99L slowly developing and heading in our direction – see iWeather – there are two already festering and getting bigger. The first one, Invest 99L was at this time (Tuesday 31 morning) according to our friend, Rob Lightbown…
The Editor Speaks: Is the Budget done or not done?
The Governor of the Cayman Islands, H.E. Duncan Taylor, says the Budget is not done but the Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, says the Budget is done. If Taylor says, “not done,” and Bush says, “is done,” is done,…
The Editor Speaks: Travers and Miller
Two excellent statements from two diverse personalities and both respected even if you may not agree with them. Anthony Travers, former Chairman of the Board of Cayman Finance and current Chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange made this poignant…
The Editor Speaks: Taxation looms
The announcement by Cayman’s premier, Hon McKeeva Bush to place a payroll tax on work permit holders has caused a wave of discussion today. The word “tax” strikes such an arrow into the heart of everyone living in the Cayman…
The Editor Speaks:The premier’s budget statement
Whilst our lead story headline states that Premier Hon. McKeeva Bush is bringing in taxation he will argue that it is no such thing. However, whatever you call something, it doesn’t change what it is. A rose is a flower…
The Editor Speaks: Why does McKeeva like opening cans of worms?
If you open a “can of worms”, you do something that will cause a lot of problems, and quite frankly, is going to cause more problems than it’s worth. Our premier, and you can’t keep him out of the news,…
The Editor Speaks: OMOV will not go away Mr. Bush
I am afraid I lost “my cool” last Thursday and Friday over the One Man, One Vote (OMOV) Referendum. It was not because the OMOV lost, I could not see how it could succeed by the way the Government had…
The Editor Speaks: Hope of Cayman’s healing vanishes in moments
My call for the premier to hold out an olive branch and instigate a “healing” ministry was dashed in the early hours of Thursday (19) morning immediately after the referendum result was announced. Even though the One Man, One Vote…
CloudOn Brings Mobile Productivity to the World Stage
CloudOn Brings Mobile Productivity to the World Stage, Launching in 60 Additional Countries Across the Globe including Cayman Islands CloudOn, the mobile solution for creating, editing, saving and sharing Microsoft Office and Adobe documents, launches worldwide In response to enormous…
The Editor Speaks: The referendum the government didn’t win
I hope the premier does not think that the result of the One Man, One Vote (OMOV) referendum last Wednesday that failed to get the 50% plus one of registered voters is a victory. It was not. It was an…
