The Editor Speaks: Are we wasting our breath?
There has been much highlighting over the past few years that has risen to almost an explosion here in the Cayman media sites on the grave need for environmental protection. Indeed, iNews Cayman, has been one of the front runners…
The Editor Speaks: It is everyone’s right to plead “Not Guilty”
A lot of people in the Cayman Islands may have been shocked at the plea of “Not Guilty” by Hon. Rolston Anglin, the Cayman Islands Minster for Education, to three charges in connection with an incident that occurred near the…
The Editor Speaks: How urgent is it for our National Conservation Law to be passed?
“We are not environmental policemen and we are far more effective by buying up the land that is under threat,” said Carla Reid recently to CNS. Carla Reid is chair of the Cayman Islands National Trust (NT) and she was…
The Editor Speaks: I agree NOT to actually agree
Signing an agreement doesn’t mean I agree with everything in it and doesn’t mean I will do it. This is when the Cayman Islands Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, signs it. This is the message our premier has told the world…
The Editor Speaks: The power disease
Information is power. When government officials share information with their subjects – the people they represent and have placed them in their positions of power – they rely on it to be true. The people’s way of life and their…
The Editor Speaks: Rumours
“A rumour without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.” ~John Tudor Rumours have been buzzing concerning job losses at the Cayman Islands National Road Authority (NRA) ever since Brian Tomlinson, the previous director of the…
The Editor Speaks: Has Bush snubbed the FCO, again?
Has once again the Cayman Islands Premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, snubbed the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in failing to deliver on another of his promises? It has been confirmed by the Governor’s Office the Premier has told Mark…
The Editor Speaks: Freedom of speech or news from the bush
In a recent poll appearing on the Rasmussen Reports Internet site it states 72% put freedom of speech ahead of not offending other cultures “Voters overwhelmingly rate protecting freedom of speech as more important than not offending other nations and…
The Editor Speaks: More gas less sense
I was astonished to hear some of the answers to questions that were asked at the recent meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) concerning the abuse by a number of civil servants of the gas card (Gasboy) system. The…
Mother (known as Mama)
Mother (better known as Mama) ‘Mama’ as we called her was so quiet and sweet To hug and kiss her was really a treat. She was fat like mothers of her day you see Having nine healthy children…
