The Editor speaks: Same-sex marriage stay appeal. Same arguments but the stay still won
Acting Solicitor General Reshma Sharma outlined some of the details of the appeal to justify a stay on the implementation of Chief Justice Anthony Smellie’s landmark ruling that same-sex couples can now get married in the Cayman Islands. For government’s…
The Editor speaks: OfReg? No. Just off the reg and find the pump
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Office known as OfReg is the most incompetent and useless body ever dreamt up by any government. One of its main duties is to monitor the prices of fuel. It monitors them alright and give…
The Editor speaks: Wolves in Cayman
A wolf is an animal that preys. According to Wikipedia: “The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the grey/gray wolf or timber wolf, is a canine native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America. It is…
The Editor speaks: Mercury
We have published in today’s iNews two articles concerning mercury, and this mercury is not the planet. The mercury I am talking about is the element that looks so pretty in its shiny, fast-moving liquid form. But don’t touch it….
The Editor speaks: HEALTH
I make no apologies for publishing many articles this week concerning health. You see, this Sunday April 7th is World Health Day. Yesterday (3) we published our Minister of Health, Dwayne Seymour’s, World Health Day Message. The Minister started off…
The Editor speaks: Cayman’s Premier acts under pressure
After Cayman Islands Chief Justice, Anthony Smellie, last Friday (29 March) handed down his judgment that same-sex marriages would now be legal in the Cayman Islands, it made news all over the world. I was not surprised at the Chief…
The Editor speaks: Trouble in paradise
The resignation of Newlands MLA Alva Suckoo as Deputy Leader of the Opposition that I spoke about in an earlier Editorial, has now started to make some early volcano like rumblings on our Islands of Paradise. I knew it wouldn’t…
The Editor speaks: Same sex marriage decison, making it now legal in Cayman Islands, has made world wide news
I am giving up most of my Editorial space today to make way for an article published in the UK’s Independent that has reported the news that we have now legalised same-sex marriages slightly differently from all the other world…
The Editor speaks: Which one is an April Fool’s joke?
The official publication date of today’s iNews Cayman is Monday April 1st, although it went live yesterday evening (Sunday March 31). And, as most of us know, April 1st is known around the world as April Fool’s Day or All…
The Editor speaks: Welcome to our Royals
It is wonderful to have Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, visit our shores. I also believe it is a great honour to be the last Caribbean country they have visited on their twelve days and six countries…