The Editor Speaks: What has happened to ‘Prince’ Solomon?
The defining legend of King Solomon was his great wisdom. He was wise and his gift of wisdom came from God because he asked for it. This was back in the years 971 – 931 BCE and it was in…
The Editor Speaks: Exciting announcement for iNews Cayman
When Joan and I started on the long (and winding) road to produce iNews Cayman we never imagined it would be so successful in such a short time. We started our very first publication on Monday May 2nd 2011. We…
The Editor Speaks: Finger printing and tourism
It is a common practice when one visits the USA, UK, Israel and other terrorism threatened countries to be fingerprinted before you are allowed entry. You can also be subject to an eye scan. Deputy Governor, Hon. Franz Manderson, revealed…
The Editor Speaks: A Dart in time saves ……
If I were Mr. Dart (one can only dream – nah God made me what I am) I would be more than a little upset at some of the posters the organisers of the motorcade last Saturday (10) protesting closure…
The Editor Speaks: Immigration, riches and injustice
It still comes as a shock when injustice is obvious to everyone except the very people who sit on the boards that have to do with immigration, and I am talking of the Cayman Islands. If you have money you…
The Editor Speaks – Cayman’s unimportant event: Commonwealth Day 2012
I wrote an editorial last week about the importance of the Commonwealth and the ridiculous and uninformed reasoning by Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, to remove her country from the present list of 54 Commonwealth countries. If judging by…
The Editor Speaks: Bush army, previous editorials
I wrote editorials only recently on statesmanship, working together, and being too big to fail. Just a few days after these editorials appeared in iNews Cayman we have examples of exactly what I was saying. First we have Premier McKeeva…
The Editor Speaks: Green energy
We received a press release on Wednesday (7) from Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) Grand Cayman’s only provider of electricity. For many years they have not been in favour of ‘green’ energy for obvious reasons but with the high price of…
The Editor Speaks: Colonialism, slavery, the British and the Commonwealth
Colonialism has many meanings in the various dictionaries: “the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory” is the mildest I have read and “a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of…
The Editor Speaks: The bigger you are the bigger you stall
When some of the largest banks and insurance companies found themselves in great danger of going bankrupt recently the various governments bailed them out with monies they had raised from us – the small, the almost insignificant. We, who are…
