The Editor Speaks: September 10th 2012 is World Suicide Prevention Day.
World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10th, is an opportunity for all sectors of the community – the public, charitable organizations, communities, researchers, clinicians, practitioners, politicians and policy makers, volunteers, those bereaved by suicide, other interested groups and individuals – to…
The Editor Speaks: Incredible and incomprehensible
Yesterday (6) our exclusive lead story “More red tape for all Cayman companies” has caused a stir in the financial world but it should have caused a stir in everyone who has a business. It should have caused a stir…
The Editor Speaks: When will they ever learn?
Pete Seeger’s song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” contains the lines “When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” To make the question even more demanding it is repeated. The song would become a highly emotional protest…
The Editor Speaks: Why are THEY waiting?
There is something very wrong with a judicial system when two defendants have to wait in custody for nearly six month for their trial. IN CUSTODY!! And the defendants have already been in custody for months. And where is this…
The Editor Speaks: Is bad publicity good?
Although we might like to think that when someone mentions the Cayman Islands it conjures up a picture of beauty, sunshine, clear skies, crystal blue seas, white sand, soft cool breezes and palm trees. This is precisely what our Islands…
The Editor Speaks: CID Super reports carelessness contributes to burglaries
It was sobering words from CID Detective Superintendent Marlon Bodden on Wednesday (29) when he said there were 293 burglaries committed in the Cayman Islands over the first seven months of 2012. And this figure was actually decreasing! But he…
The Editor Speaks: A very angry judge
The RCIPS has been getting, quite rightly, some good press over their recent arrests and charges against the alleged perpetrators of the recent crime wave. Things over at police headquarters seem to be getting better. However, the fall down, is…
The Editor Speaks: Hospital may be Cayman’s lifesaver
The Dr. Shetty Hospital groundbreaking ceremony that took place on Monday at East End was executed with much pomp and circumstance as befits “the largest private sector undertaking in the history of these islands”. If all goes to plan, but…
The Editor Speaks: New school year beckons but no “fanfare” for Clifton Hunter
With the end of summer comes the beginning of a new school year. Every year it comes just the same but every year it is a little different. On Grand Cayman there are some welcome changes. The brand new Clifton…
HMP Northward prison riot, October 1999. Colin Wilson remembers….
On September 10th, 1992, Cayman International Television Network (Caribbean) Ltd (CITN – Cayman 27) first put out a video signal over the air. To the majority of people living on Grand Cayman it was not very memorable as the video…
