Let’s hope this calm is here to stay
A murder free weekend in Cayman? Sounds like a strange concept given the events of recent times but that’s just what we’ve had and what a welcome relief it’s been. After five young men lost their lives in the space…
The ‘dark hand’ and editorials
I have tried very hard to be positive and not negative in any of my editorials. When I was approached re buying one of the present newspapers (which didn’t happen) a germ of an idea formed in my head. The…
“Please, sir, I want some more?” “That boy will be hung.”
The quotes are famous and come from Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” about an orphan boy who has a miserable existence in a workhouse and then an undertaker. He escapes and joins a gang in London although he is unaware of the…
MAY we have more TIME, please ……..
And the rest of the sentence goes: “……we need to make another speech and call another press conference. And then there are those talk shows and TV appearances we have to do. And it really isn’t our fault. The politicians…
When is enough – ENOUGH?
How many more murders have to be committed before YOU come forward and save your loved one from becoming another victim of this Island’s days of HELL? Don’t you care? Is there nothing but ICE in your cold, cold heart?…
Family, murders, crime, unacceptable violence, silence, schools
You may wonder what ‘family’ has to do with the other topics in the heading? It would at first sight seem to be nothing. Actually, it has everything. It is our start in life. It is what shapes and moulds…
Guns, robberies, murders
The headline is a teaser advertising the latest action movie. We are shown the trailer. A young man and a woman are sitting in a car. It is night. They kiss. All is bliss. Soft music plays. The music changes….
Rollover rolls away
As we reported some weeks ago, and therefore it was no surprise to iNews, premier Hon. McKeeva Bush announced in the L.A. last Wednesday (14) that the controversial rollover policy will be suspended. The real news in his statement to…
Unity in the House and disunity in Gangland
It was wonderfully refreshing to find a normally divided House unanimously supporting Friday’s (9) motion by Premier Hon. McKeeva Bush, calling for Governor H.E. Duncan Taylor and RCIPS Commissioner David Baines to provide a lead on permanent enhancements in the…
Yes, a very sad day
I have to agree with RCIPS Commissioner David Baines when he said recently after the verdict of the Devon Anglin murder trial that: “It was a sad day…”. It was a very sad day, indeed. The saddest thing about it…
