The Editor Speaks: Sickening increases to CINICO’s members who actually pay for health insurance
We all know costs have increased and one can expect everyone has to pay more. It is by just how much more. When the Cayman Islands government, without any warning, can shove an increase of over 120% to some of…
The Editor Speaks: Corruption and money laundering tarnishing Cayman’s image further
Our beautiful country, the Cayman Islands, has been tarnished and mainly unfairly, with the reports of corruption in high places, the ‘nefarious’ Cayman tax haven with US President Obama adding his voice to the mud slinging, and money laundering where…
The Editor Speaks: Cuban migrants not winning any friends with escape ploy
The 30 or so Cuban migrants who are here detained at the Immigration Detention Centre have said their break out was a ploy to bring attention to their grievances at their incarceration. All they have done is to make me…
The Editor Speaks: When is a whistleblower a snitch?
I have already done an Editorial on “The persecution of whistleblowers” see iNews Cayman November 14 2013 at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/the-editor-speaks-the-persecution-of-whistleblowers/ In that Editorial I stated: “Here in Cayman we don’t have too many Whistleblowers but we do have our activists who…
The Editor Speaks: It happens……..
It happens in a lot of families. I suspect most of us have had a family member – distant or close – that has fallen foul of the law. It is terribly sad when it happens and I feel particularly…
The Editor Speaks: Is Miller leaving it too late….?
“Strike while the iron is hot” is a well-known saying and means, “act while you have the chance to”. In other words do something immediately while there is time. The British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson (no relation), back in 1960…
The Editor Speaks: Why is St Patrick the most popular of Saints?
If you ask someone to name a Saint and his day of celebration, if anyone can answer correctly that is, persons will probably say St. Patrick (or St Paddy) and name correctly March 17th. If that person you ask happens…
The Editor Speaks: The cost of time wasting
The four West Bay women, Alice Mae Coe, Betty Ebanks, Annie Multon and Ezmie Smith lost not unsurprisingly their case when they challenged the closure of the West Bay Road. What was surprising to me was why Justice Alex Henderson…
The Editor Speaks: A road to somewhere but the route no one knows where
How is it possible to have a major arterial road gazetted without “any assessment to inform the optimal alignment of the road corridor with respect to transportation needs, impacts on established protected areas and the natural environment, or any other…
The Editor Speaks: Even with a ‘good spin’ the crime statistics are dreadful
The spin was working overtime in the latest commentary from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) that was included with the 2013 crime statistics to produce statements like “a dip sample of burglary reports has revealed that during the…
