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The Editor Speaks: Why do I enjoy GOT when it shows everything I loathe?

I loathe foul language, I hate violence (except boxing) and I am very uncomfortable at watching explicit sex. HBO’s Game of Thrones (GOT) incorporates all three. Yet I watch and enjoy the programme even if I cringe at the three…

The Editor Speaks: It’s not too soon to announce candidacy for 2021 election

Johany Ebanks has already announced he will be standing in North Side for election to the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly in 2021 just a few month after the last election. In a release to Cayman’s media he has sent us…

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The Editor speaks: Red tape will strangle our non-profit organizations

Red tape will strangle our non-profit organizations It is very unusual for me to disagree with Michael Myles but there is always exceptions. Myles is with Youth Anti-Crime Trusts and I am surprised government authorities have not listened to him…

The Editor Speaks: Breastfeeding

The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) have announced initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of breastfeeding to the growth and development of healthy children, This is to coincide with World Breastfeeding Week, that starts today (Aug 1) and…

The Editor Speaks: Cayman’s aviation body still needs action says Aud.G

Cayman Islands Auditor General Sue Winspear, has reviewed the three aviation bodies, Cayman Airways, Ltd., Cayman Islands Airport Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands. She found a number of the issues identified in a December 2013…

The Editor Speaks: Long time comin’ but there is progress

The government have just announced plans are in the works for a mental health facility to be built in East End. The target date for completion is April 2019. The company that will spearhead the design of the facility is…

The Editor Speaks: Small businesses struggle – rid red tape!

It is difficult for small businesses to survive. Cayman Islands Minister Joey Hew was given this message loud and clear when he visited the office of the Cayman Islands Small Business Association (CISBA) recently. The main cause, said Dawn McLean-Sawney…

The Editor Speaks: What is “Cultural misunderstanding?”

The press, and not just locally, is having a field day with the arrest of Cayman Islands Speaker of the House, McKeeva Bush, for allegedly groping a woman employee at a Florida casino. The police who arrested Bush say they…

The Editor Speaks: When is art pornographic?

I am pointing here at the arrest last Tuesday (18) of Cayman Brac artist Ron ‘Foots’ Kynes by the police on suspicion of “obscene publications.” The “obscene publications” were two statues Kynes had created of two nude women embracing in…

The Editor speaks: Elections expenses revealed but is it the truth?

The Elections Office has released the summary of Elections Expense returns as reported, by political parties’ and individual candidates for the May General Elections. See iNews Cayman story at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/cayman-islands-elections-office-posts-candidates-expense-returns/ During the final eight weeks of the May General Elections…