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The Editor speaks: What’s in a name?
I awoke this morning to not one, but three emails, informing me I had made one of our other media publications. Wondering what I had said to make this publication mention me I obviously went to see for myself. Yes,…
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The Publisher speaks: Birds are no birdbrains
By Joan Wilson “Ching Chings” I refer to an article in the ‘Caymanian Compass’ “Crows prove they are no birdbrains”. I must agree 100% that birds have some kind of insight to access and solve the problem of extracting food…
The Editor speaks: Leaks
The leaks I am speaking about are not the wet ones. These leaks are confidential messages that you might send to your friends or internal memos you send to your co-workers. Who leaks them and to whom does the leaks…
The Editor speaks: Why the media MUST report facts and not marl road gossip
It is very tempting to write and report a news story that no other media house has. Especially, when you are a small media house struggling to make a living from advertising on a small island in the Caribbean. The…
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‘Tax the cruise sector and reduce airport tax’ Bahamian businessman urges Caribbean governments to make changes
By Delana Isles From TC Weekly News CARIBBEAN governments should tax the cruise sector more and lessen taxes for air passengers in and around the region. This is the view of Robert MacLellan, managing director of MacLellan and Associates, a hospitality…
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The Editor speaks: Listen up!
Yes readers, I’m really going to sound off today. You can blame one of our regular columnists, Melissa Martin, who today has warned us all to, Shhh…do you hear that? Close your mouth and eyes. Open your ears and pay…
The Editor speaks: Traffic violations continue to grow
Despite the police warnings and the increased presence of police cars on our roads traffic violations continue. In the “Traffic and Roads Policing Unit Provides Midsummer Enforcement Update, 10 July”, it states approximately 568 (not 570 approx?) were issued. “Speeding…
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The Editor speaks: Medals galore
It is so nice to write an Editorial congratulating our sports men and women competing at the Island Games in Gibraltar. At the time of writing this, on the fifth day of the competition, Cayman has thirteen medals that include…
The Publisher speaks: Idle thoughts
By Joan E. Wilson I wrote this poem over twenty years ago. It was my very first to get published in 2006. A lot of thoughts have passed since then but seldom am I idle. However, I was idle when…
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The Publisher speaks: Remembering Ivan
By Joan Wilson Colin asked me to republish my poem I wrote about Hurricane Ivan as it is the start of the Hurricane Season. We must not get too comfortable in thinking it won’t happen again. It WILL happen again…
