The Editor Speaks: Bush blames PPM again for his budget failure
Despite being three years into his four year term of leader of government business, Cayman Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon. McKeeva Bush, laid most of the blame for HIS failure of not being able to present a balanced…
The Editor Speaks: Welcoming message from the Elections Office
Although the One Man, One Vote (OMOV) is up against mounting hurdles from government, and its campaign to hardly a glow when it needs a furnance to have any chance of succeeding, there were some encouraging words from the Elections…
The Editor Speaks: I hate abbreviations
Yes I know there is a new language out there eg. “LOL” (I used to think that meant ‘lots of love’) and BTW and even at my old age I have adapted to it. iNews Cayman abbreviates a lot in…
The Editor Speaks: Are we getting value for money from UK Lord?
It shouldn’t come as a shock to learn that our London Office in the UK has a deputy director, Charles Parchment, earning an undisclosed salary doing “more traditional duties” and working alongside him is Lord Blencathra and his firm, Two…
The Editor Speaks: Rollover and our website
iNews Cayman’s publisher, Joan (Watler) Wilson and I have always been against the Rollover Policy. Joan spoke out against it with a letter to the Caymanian Compass when the PPM under its then leader Kurt Tibbetts implemented it after it…
The Editor Speaks: One Man, One Vote (OMOV) – is the campaign working?
It is no secret I am a huge supporter of the OMOV campaign and so is our Publisher, Joan (Watler) Wilson. I deliberately included Joan’s maiden name in brackets, because when I spoke to one of the OMOV organisers expressing…
The Editor Speaks: It is a welcome change to actually applaud something coming out of the government these days.
In a new report the Term Limit Review Committee (TLRC) has recommended that government abolish the key employee policy and allow everyone who wants to stay the right to apply for permanent residency once they reach their eighth year. (See…
The Editor Speaks:l Why don’t we ban Paraquat?
In the Cayman Islands we normally follow many of the regulations that are in place and ones that come in force. We are a British Overseas Territory after all. We are very close to the USA and we also follow…
The Editor Speaks: Electric cars still not law
Despite our story yesterday (14) headlining “Electric cars now part of the Cayman Islands new Traffic Bill regulations” it is not law. In fact the story laid out the “very complex legal issues” there were. The story yesterday said there…
The Editor Speaks: Does Mark Scotland really feel he has cleared up ERB dump controversy?
Hon. Mark Scotland, Minister of Health, Environment, Youth, Sports and Culture says he is being victimised. On CITN/Cayman 27 news on Tues (12) he read a minute from the Water Authority Board meeting stating the Environmental Review Board (ERB) had…
