The Editor Speaks: Spate of home robberies, time, blindness
We are suddenly experiencing a series of robberies immediately outside or at people’s homes. We have had three in just a few days. The latest was Tuesday (17) in Webster Estates as a woman arrived at her home. The robbers…
The Editor Speaks: David Marchant
It is amazing how an editorial comment I made in Friday (13) publication has sparked another two editorials on the subject. I made the point that, to me, Cayman Finance had missed the boat by turning down an invitation by…
The Editor Speaks: Strange? Paraquat. Code. Service
It would seem on the one sided version (the husband’s) I have seen and read, the decision by the Cayman Islands Immigration Department to expel Jamaican National Gary Evans, husband of the still missing Anna Ebanks Evans (she disappeared nearly…
The Editor Speaks: The devil you know or the one you don’t
David Marchant’s OffshoreAlert is the unofficial eye on the offshore financial industry and its very name can strike like a lightning bolt into an offshore finance manager’s heart. It concentrates in writing about multi-jurisdictional, white-collar crime that includes money laundering,…
The Editor Speaks: Robbery, scam, conservation, threat and Chinese
It is a right mixed bag to comment on today and unfortunately nothing good. Our scum of society robbed a George Town pharmacy on Monday at gunpoint, terrifying the shop assistants before making off with some money. They obviously are…
The Editor Speaks: Apology and stats
First of all I must apologise for my terrible clanger in yesterday’s (10) editorial when I called George Town MLA Mr. Darwin KURT Tibbetts – “Kirk.” I am a huge Star Trek fan and obviously still hung over from the…
The Editor Speaks: When a week is a year
With a General Election a long way off – 14 months to go before nomination day even – it seems to me far to soon to write the United Democratic Party (UDP) and its leader, Hon. McKeeva Bush off. A…
The Editor Speaks: Business woes, Red Bay, East End and the fab five plus 1
I was not surprised to hear that local businesses and retailers were generally reporting a woeful Christmas and some believe that unless the economy picks up they may fold. However, I am convinced 2012 will see an upswing and the…
The Editor Speaks: Messages of hope, help, love and Ezzard.
We have had our share of Christmas and New Year’s messages from HM Queen Elizabeth II, HE Governor Duncan Taylor, Premier McKeeva Bush (2), Opposition Leader Hon. Alden McLaughlin and our Publisher, Joan Wilson. All the above were shown on…
The Editor Speaks: Warnings, interference and being cynical.
Because of the two recent deaths at Pedro Castle it would seem that warning signs are going to be the order of the day. With a 21 year old man deciding to risk his life by jumping into the sea…
