The Editor Speaks: A Dart in time saves ……
If I were Mr. Dart (one can only dream – nah God made me what I am) I would be more than a little upset at some of the posters the organisers of the motorcade last Saturday (10) protesting closure…
The Editor Speaks: Immigration, riches and injustice
It still comes as a shock when injustice is obvious to everyone except the very people who sit on the boards that have to do with immigration, and I am talking of the Cayman Islands. If you have money you…
The Editor Speaks – Cayman’s unimportant event: Commonwealth Day 2012
I wrote an editorial last week about the importance of the Commonwealth and the ridiculous and uninformed reasoning by Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, to remove her country from the present list of 54 Commonwealth countries. If judging by…
The Editor Speaks: Bush army, previous editorials
I wrote editorials only recently on statesmanship, working together, and being too big to fail. Just a few days after these editorials appeared in iNews Cayman we have examples of exactly what I was saying. First we have Premier McKeeva…
The Editor Speaks: Green energy
We received a press release on Wednesday (7) from Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) Grand Cayman’s only provider of electricity. For many years they have not been in favour of ‘green’ energy for obvious reasons but with the high price of…
The Editor Speaks: Colonialism, slavery, the British and the Commonwealth
Colonialism has many meanings in the various dictionaries: “the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory” is the mildest I have read and “a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of…
The Editor Speaks: The bigger you are the bigger you stall
When some of the largest banks and insurance companies found themselves in great danger of going bankrupt recently the various governments bailed them out with monies they had raised from us – the small, the almost insignificant. We, who are…
The Editor Speaks: Missing and my pet hate – bloggers!
An astounding 2,300 persons are reported missing in the USA EVERY DAY! But only a tiny fraction is from kidnappings and even less ending in murder. By the end of 2005 there were approx 110,000 persons still actively missing. This…
The Editor Speaks : Will we ever have a statesman?
There are a number of definitions of a “statesman” but all include the words “public figure”, “usually a politician”, “he/she is respected”. “Wikipedia” adds “Statesmanship also conveys a quality of leadership that organically brings people together and of eldership, a…
Life’s Truths for Adults
I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. There is nothing worse than that moment during an argument when you realise you’re wrong. I…
