The Editor Speaks: The Weather Man
It was a very fitting tribute to the late Frank Ellsworth Roulstone Jr. last Wednesday (1) when Members of the Legislative Assembly stood for a minute of silence. Frank Roulstone was known as “The Weather Man” when he pioneered Cayman…
The Editor Speaks: Halloween and Guy Fawkes
October 31st was Halloween and November 5th is Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes. Both are celebrations that children and grownups can enjoy together. Halloween is the biggest of the two events in the USA whilst the other is the biggest in Great…
The Editor Speaks: Health care and Cayman Airways take the wrong direction
It was a good thing government managed to generate $26.3 million more than the forecasted $908.5 million that was in the last budget prepared by former Finance Minister Marco Archer. Health care and Cayman Airways travelled the wrong way ending…
The Editor Speaks: The ‘great actor’
If anyone should get the Great Actor of the Year Award it is Bodden Town MLA Chris Saunders. To my knowledge I have never met the gentleman although I know he was present at a party I was at but…
The Editor Speaks: Why do we give some “stars” the added title of “super”?
It has always irritated me at the use of the word “super” being added to our “stars” – the human kind. There are the other kind – the ones in outer space – that deserve the word because they are…
The Editor Speaks: Another breach and another cover up
Bermuda based Appleby has admitted there has been a breach earlier this year but did not disclose exactly when. It all smells very much like the 2015 Panama Papers case and the UK’s Daily Telegraph said the exposed information could…
The Editor Speaks: Statistics
Boring. Boring. Just the mention of the word ‘statistics’ and we reach for the coffee to wake us up. I am, therefore, very cognizant of the fact that many of our readers will skip the large number of articles about…
The Editor Speaks: The beach is mine and beach access for all
The Mighty Gabby, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and appearing on stage with wrote a song called “Jack, the beach is mine!” I grow up bathin, in sea water But nowadays, that is bare horror If I…
The Editor Speaks: Conservation to become more conservative?
Now that former Minister of the Environment Wayne Panton is ‘out of the way’ the door has opened or shut, depending upon what side you are on, for a more conservative approach to Cayman’s conservation. It has long been known…
The Editor Speaks: 25 Years ago
25 Years ago CITN, as Cayman27 was known then, televised the very first NCVO Telethon. In those days the NCVO Radiothon was broadcast separately from the Radio Cayman studios and finished one hour earlier at 11pm. It had different presenters…
