The Editor Speaks: Is the Budget done or not done?
The Governor of the Cayman Islands, H.E. Duncan Taylor, says the Budget is not done but the Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, says the Budget is done. If Taylor says, “not done,” and Bush says, “is done,” is done,…
The Editor Speaks: Travers and Miller
Two excellent statements from two diverse personalities and both respected even if you may not agree with them. Anthony Travers, former Chairman of the Board of Cayman Finance and current Chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange made this poignant…
The Editor Speaks: Taxation looms
The announcement by Cayman’s premier, Hon McKeeva Bush to place a payroll tax on work permit holders has caused a wave of discussion today. The word “tax” strikes such an arrow into the heart of everyone living in the Cayman…
RCIPS answers iNews Cayman’s question concerning helicopter
Further to iNews Cayman’s request for comment from the RCIPS re the sale of the police helicopter, following the statement by the Honorable Premier yesterday (25) a Police spokesperson said: “The sale of the police helicopter has neither been discussed,…
Premier brings in taxation – but only for work permit holders
CITN-Cayman27 seems the favourite place for Cayman Islands premier to make major announcements these days. However, it took place during a nation wide power outage so few, if any, watched it. Mr. Bush said on the local television “Daybreak”…
The Editor Speaks: Why does McKeeva like opening cans of worms?
If you open a “can of worms”, you do something that will cause a lot of problems, and quite frankly, is going to cause more problems than it’s worth. Our premier, and you can’t keep him out of the news,…
The Editor Speaks: OMOV will not go away Mr. Bush
I am afraid I lost “my cool” last Thursday and Friday over the One Man, One Vote (OMOV) Referendum. It was not because the OMOV lost, I could not see how it could succeed by the way the Government had…
The Editor Speaks: Hope of Cayman’s healing vanishes in moments
My call for the premier to hold out an olive branch and instigate a “healing” ministry was dashed in the early hours of Thursday (19) morning immediately after the referendum result was announced. Even though the One Man, One Vote…
The Editor Speaks: The referendum the government didn’t win
I hope the premier does not think that the result of the One Man, One Vote (OMOV) referendum last Wednesday that failed to get the 50% plus one of registered voters is a victory. It was not. It was an…
OMOV Referendum is lost. WB rules the Cayman Islands
With the West Bay voters giving a 1,053 “No” vote against the One Man, One Vote referendum, although 1,027 voted “Yes”, it marked the end of the road for the OMOV referendum even before the rest of the districts were…
