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The Editor speaks: May is Child Month

There are many themes set for Child Month throughout the world. Here , in the Cayman Islands, it is “Be Strong! Be Brave! Be You!” The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is organising a host of interactive events…

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The Editor speaks: Vaccinations

This week (April 20-27) is Vaccination Week in the Americas. Never has there been such an important week in our ever increasing “It’s XXXXXX Day/Week”. Whist the Health Authorities across the world, with heavy emphasis on the USA, have been…

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The Editor speaks: Satisfactory doesn’t mean a ‘pat on the back’

If one is to read the press release from our Education Department one would think the ‘satisfactory’ grade some of our schools received was bringing home a gold medal. Sorry. It is far short. Yes, there has been some improvement….

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The Editor speaks: Earth Day

Earth Day was last Monday (22) and we here in the Cayman Islands had the whole day to celebrate it as it was a National Holiday. No. Our government did not give us all the day off because it was…

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The Editor speaks: “The Power of the Cross”

I hope you had a wonderful and blessed Easter. I am actually writing this the day before Easter Sunday and Holy Week started for me on Sunday 14th. I was at Cayman Islands First Baptist Church for their Festival of…

The Editor speaks: The sound of the nails

A message for Holy Week/Easter So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him. They crucified him to a…

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The Editor speaks: I am disgusted

I am angry and disgusted at one of our media websites and other social media outlets. Yesterday a young man was knocked down off his bicycle by a hit and run driver. He was left for dead on North Church…

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The Editor speaks: Inflation seems to be the only blot and challenge

It was good news, more good news and even more good news when our Minister of Finance, Roy McTaggart, when he gave his next three years core government forecast in the Legislative Assembly last Friday (12). He gave plenty of…

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The Editor speaks” Why does a joke get more criticism than a direct appeal to obstruct a lawful ceremony? Hypocrisy!!

It just baffles me that 160 people can comment on a joke they considered in poor taste (on the CNS website). However, a directive from an MLA to cause a disturbance by attending uninvited to a same-sex wedding and objecting,…

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The Publisher speaks: Think Again [starts with chickens and ends with a donkey]

Colin didn’t know what to write about today so I told him to “think again”. It was then, I remembered I had written a poem many years ago with that title. As it started with chickens and we are overrun…