The Editor Speaks: The smell of scum is back
The scum of the Cayman Islands society were back in earnest on Monday night. Determined to make our beautiful islands a place to harass, steal, terrify and maim innocent citizens, trash have crawled out of their garbage cans and delivered…
Armed robberies and Governor fights ICO
What a terrible start to 2013. We were all looking forward to hopefully a new beginning but Monday (7) has put paid to that. Shockingly, H.E. the Governor of the Cayman Islands, Duncan Taylor, makes our headline along with the…
The Editor Speaks: An unfortunate decision by HE the Governor
With the somewhat adverse publicity and the “loose” charges made by certain members of the United Democratic Party concerning the United Kingdom (UK)’s role in the Cayman Islands political affairs, it is disturbing to read that Cayman Islands Governor Duncan…
Fragments are my favourite
I was handed a new book of poems and asked to prepare a review. As it was given to me by Caymanian Peter Westin, a man I have known now for nearly ten years, I was honoured to have been…
The Editor Speaks: Can 2013 bring hope?
If one reads the blogs in our local media sites we don’t have much to look forward to in 2013. The Fab 5, or the Famous 5, or the Judas 5, or whatever you wish to call them, who jumped…
The Editor Speaks: Looking forward but first we have to look backwards too
Listening to and reading all the events leading up to the USA’s fiscal cliff and the last minute (and past deadlines) decisions to avert same, do you see a similar pattern here to our own ones in the Cayman Islands?…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman waits … and waits
Nothing is quick in the Cayman Islands. It will “soon come”. Not if it involves the governing United Democratic Party. And especially if it is a decision that will take guts. To sack a premier of any country is a…
The Editor Speaks: Innocent until proven guilty but Bush MUST step down
Accusations are very easy to make and proving guilt does not always follow. However, when the person who has been arrested, albeit not charged, for corruption amongst others, is the premier of a country, the ongoing distraction is going to…
The Editor Speaks: The world is watching
With the news of Cayman Islands premier, McKeeva Bush’s arrest circulating all over the Internet, the local media has a responsibility to report only what we know as factual. It is hard not to resist the urge to get a…
The Editor Speaks: Cayman’s crash course in corruption
Never in my wildest dreams would I have known that the two top stories we ran yesterday (11) concerning corruption i.e. “International Anti-Corruption Day” and ”Professor says radical reforms needed to strengthen anti-corruption” would seemingly set in motion a crash…
