The Editor Speaks: One man (meaning person) one vote
As we reported yesterday (14), East End and North Side MLA’s Arden McLean and Ezzard Miller launched their campaign at a public meeting in East End for “one man, one vote”. The meeting was held in the parking lot of…
The Editor Speaks: Prison and rehabilitation
It was with some dismay, but not shock, to read the newly published report from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) that found the rehabilitation programmes we believed were in place were completely neglected. The report was commissioned…
The Editor Speaks: A love blog day
It is St Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. On this day we think strongly of our partner, wife, husband, lover, mother, father and even our pets. Love on this day is often an interpersonal attraction, desire, romance…
The Editor Speaks: Complaining about Complaints
It is astonishing that Franz Manderson, now Deputy Governor, should have written to the Office of the Complaints Commissioner (OCC) concerning an investigation Nicola Williams had executed, not only asking her to revisit her decision but in a previous email…
The Editor Speaks: What really is the picture in the Caribbean?
You only have to watch the syndicated US game show “Wheel of Fortune” to hear the words “Prize Puzzle” and the winner’s face and audience reaction when the prize is a trip to the Caribbean. Cruises to the Caribbean are…
The Editor Speaks: More on Frankenstein mosquitoes, transparency and accommodating
My Editorial at the weekend (4-6 February) headlined “Frankenstein mosquitoes and transparency” prompted an email from Dr. R. Guy Reeves of the Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie whom I had quoted. This is what he wrote: “Dear Editor “I am the author…
The Editor Speaks: The good the bad and the ugly
After the good news that shot over yesterday’s (7) Editorial comes the bad. Three masked armed men made off with a small amount of cash and stole a car after terrorising a man and a woman in their home in…
The Editor Speaks: What a packed weekend
It was a packed weekend. For us in Cayman we had the fabulous John Legend Concert at Camana Bay that was packed (as my wife says) “to capacity”. Whether you like Mr. Legend’s music or not you have to admit…
THE EDITOR SPEAKS: Frankenstein mosquitoes and transparency
There has been much publicity in the world wide press regarding the release of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes here in the Cayman Islands by the UK firm Oxitec. On Grand Cayman, where we have the Aedes aegypti, a mosquito that…
The Editor Speaks: A home used to be a castle
The idiom “An Englishman’s home is his castle” was established in common law by English lawyer and politician Sir Edward Coke (pronounced Cook), in “The Institutes of the Laws of England”, in 1628: “For a man’s house is his castle,…
