Scoring the rhetoric on Obama’s energy policies: Part 1
By Chris Nelder Election-year politics have bombarded the American public with conflicting stories about President Obama’s energy policies. The president takes credit for increasing fossil fuel production under his administration, while the fossil fuel industry blames him for falling…
Mobile device data scrutinised by USA police. Can it happen here?
A disturbing item of news was sent to me recently entitled “Police scrutiny of mobile device data raises concerns”. It appeared in North Carolina’s “News Observer” claiming that civil liberties advocates are worried that advances in mobile phone technology have…
Nine safety tips
This article supposedly written by a “cop” has been making the rounds over the Internet over the last few years (since 2001) and has appeared on another local media site a few days ago so I thought I would investigate…
The Editor Speaks: Firearms, civil rights
iNews Cayman received a copy of a bill a local man, Dennis Warren Jr., has just received for the amount of $29,000 in connection with a legal case over whether the RCIPS had the rights to enter his home. Mr….
Don’t Panic!!!
Now we have a fuel strike. Don’t we? What’s that you say? “No we don’t”? But people are joining huge queues at the gas stations, or petrol stations or whatever you prefer to call them. There have been stories of…
Perfectly legal?
Paul McGowan (PS Audio) If you own a CD it is perfectly legal to sell that CD. It’s your property. It is also perfectly legal for you to make a copy of that CD for your own use on…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman Airways ‘crash’ and corruption law
Thankfully, it is a rare occurrence for Cayman Airways to be involved in accidents, especially hitting an obstacle. Last Friday (30) I received a message around lunchtime that a Cayman Airways plane had ‘crashed’ into a building at the Montego…
Immigration
Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is currently presiding over a hearing on new guidelines for immigration detention in the USA that were issued last month and are now beginning to go into effect. If you think…
Pie are squared
A magnificent piece of political hokum was announced in the UK yesterday. VAT is going to be charged on hot food. This means that if you go and buy a hot pie or sausage roll you have to pay an…
Reading palms
Palmistry is the practice of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the palms of the hands. Palmistry is also called chiromancy, palm-reading, chirology, or hand-analysis. Palmistry originated in ancient India. It was said to be practiced by…
