The Editor Speaks: More gas less sense
I was astonished to hear some of the answers to questions that were asked at the recent meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) concerning the abuse by a number of civil servants of the gas card (Gasboy) system. The…
The Editor Speaks: Brac paving disgrace
There has been much in Cayman’s media since a public interest report by the Auditor General on the expenditure of almost $3.5 million on paving in Cayman Brac, including more than $500,000 on private parking lots. What at first looked…
The Editor Speaks: Love: our main story
I expect there will many of our readers who will be puzzled that the article headlined “Love” and written by our “Special Correspondent” Paul, is our top story. Actually, it should have been our top story yesterday (19) as the…
The Editor Speaks: FCO and our new overseer.
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office is headed by Foreign Secretary, William Hague, who once upon a time was leader of the Conservative Party for a short time during the years it was in opposition to the governing Labour Party….
The Editor Speaks: Does anyone do background checks …
Does anyone do background checks on personnel that are hired to head up sensitive investigations? Why do we have to pay the piper [we didn’t engage] for disclosing to us nothing? The “anyone” I am referring to in the first…
The Editor Speaks: Government television and telecom interception
I have written recently on the power of television and how it can be abused. I also wrote in August last year about my reservations regarding the broad powers the RCIPS obtained for themselves regarding the passing of the Information…
The Editor Speaks: Sea mystery gets into more murky waters
The mystery of the three West Bay fishermen who were lost at sea when they left Cayman’s shores on 19th August and did not return until Aug 31st got into more murky seas on Tuesday (11). When the fishermen’s boat…
The Editor Speaks: Operation Tempura will not go away
The civil dispute between Martin Bridger, the former senior investigating officer of Operation Tempura, over the use of documents from the infamous police investigation is proceeding in secret. The doors are locked and bolted against the public and especially the…
The Editor Speaks: Why we withheld the name
We published the story today about a 78 year old man who pleaded guilty to stealing $180 from his employer after having had a clean criminal record. The man, a seafarer, had retired from the company he stole from but…
The Editor Speaks: Television: – seeing is believing
I was on CITN-Cayman27 television’s show “Daybreak’ yesterday (10) as it was their 20th anniversary and I was asked what was the single most significant moment in my fifteen years there that I thought had made the most impact on…
