The Editor Speaks: What MIGHT happen is speculation
The word “MIGHT” is bandied about by the media to sensationalise their stories that are merely speculative and lack any hard facts or data. And seemingly not just by the media. The Cayman Real Estate Association and the Cayman Islands…
The Editor Speaks:
Alone Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. There are some millionaires With money they can’t use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They’ve got expensive doctors To cure their…
The Editor Speaks: Eclipsed
Here on Grand Cayman the event of the century [in the US anyway] yesterday’s [Mon 21] Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon was a non-event if you wanted to witness anything of it live. If we had have had…
The Editor Speaks: Major renovations to a George Town landmark
I must have been taking too much of the Cayman Islands sun and gone to sleep but I missed any announcement of major renovations to one of our George Town landmarks. The George Town Hall is to receive a major…
The Editor Speaks: When our laws are a joke
When it comes to building laws I am afraid to say it is who you know and not what the laws says. I have preached enough on the dispute between Christopher Johnson and developer Kel Thompson who has got away…
The Editor Speaks: Where were you when?
Where were you when….. ….John F. Kennedy died? ….Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston? ….9/11? ….Princess Diana died? ….Elvis Presley died? I was at home in England watching television when there was an in interruption to the BBC programme and a…
The Editor Speaks: Diseases thought dead are coming back. Why?
One of our stories today has the shocking news that the Black Death – The Bubonic Plague is making a comeback in Mexico and in the USA fleas have been discovered carrying the disease. Measles that we thought had been…
The Editor Speaks: Vandalism is vandalism even in the Brac
Yesterday we published a Police Report headed “Vandalism of Statues on Cayman Brac Discovered Saturday, 12 August”. The report stated the “police responded to a complaint of damage to property at a location on Southside Road on Cayman Brac. Some…
The Editor Speaks: Airport horror stories
With the ever increasing security requirements at airports today it is a wonder anyone wants to get on a plane anymore. You now have only a 50% chance of making a connecting flight if you first are travelling from a…
The Editor Speaks: When stats don’t tell the whole story
Being trained as a Quantity Surveyor I know all there is to know about statistics. Our Appraisals and valuations are based to a large extent on stats. I also know how to weight stats one way or another without lying…
