The Editor Speaks: Corruption
Is corruption everywhere? Even here in the Cayman Islands? If you are tuned in to the daily radio talk shows and listen to the promotional ads for these programmes you would answer ‘Yes’ there is corruption here. However, where is…
The Editor Speaks: The clampdown on window tinting may cause more accidents
The vigorous current clampdown on what the RCIPS call illegal automobile window tinting may cause more accidents. It is now worrisome to all motor vehicle users who have had tint applied to their windscreens that it may be illegal. Without…
The Editor Speaks: A GOOD survey. Not a BAD survey.
We have published today a Press Release that carries the headline: “Cayman Islands Schools Survey: “Students are satisfied with their school”’. Excellent. This is a quite different outcome from what I was expecting. The consensus feeling I was getting from…
The Editor Speaks: Iggie hunters.
I must admit I am surprised there was as many as forty-four responses to the Cayman Islands Department of Environment’s call for Iggie Hunters. The need for the culling of our green iguanas has been recognized for a number of…
The Editor Speaks: Last call for cullers
Today (Thu Aug 9) is your last chance to join the submission of information on the green iguana culling. There are approx 2 million green iguana here, although I haven’t actually seen anybody physically counting them. Perhaps the police are…
The Editor Speaks: Baffling and shocking
When will governments wake up and pour the funds required to deal with crime at the source and not after the horse has bolted? It is constantly baffling to me why there is always reluctance to commit monies and other…
The Editor Speaks: What the future holds for UK OT’s
Our government is going to try and renegotiate parts of our country’s 2009 Constitution after the shocking vote in the House of Commons making us more transparent than our competitors that are Crown colonies. A level playing field it is…
The Editor Speaks: Tired and tyres
At the weekend we published four reports from the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) that will take many, many hours to plough through them all. If I am at a loss to find something to write about I can delve…
The Editor Speaks: Why I write Editorials and Not “Fake News”
I write Editorials mostly. Only occasionally do I write articles claiming to be news. When I do sit down to write an article I point to the facts and, where I can, I give the source. I NEVER write the…
The Editor Speaks: Arming ACC officers seems unnecessary
Even though the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has never had to deal with violent criminals they are seeking a change in the law so that their officers can battle any such white collar thief turning into one. If the amendment is…
