The Editor speaks: Utter madness and why?
It was with utter shock on reading a local police report concerning an accident that happened, according to the Press Release, on Saturday Nov 16th (I presume that should read Saturday 17th). The release continues: “…..the police were conducting a…
The Editor speaks: Your Christmas tree could be home to up to 25,000 insects
“But don’t worry about those little things” The Cayman Islands Department of Agriculture (DOA) is quite right to warn importers of Christmas trees concerning the steady increase in interceptions of pests of quarantine importance in tree shipments since 2015. Last…
The Editor speaks: It’s all ‘hope”, “anticipation”, “expected”, “most”, and “should”
Whilst Mount Trashmore gets bigger and our garbage gets collected less we finally get an update from government on the proposed new waste cycling centre. Or more correct, the ISWMS facilities (Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), Composting facility, Household Waste Recycling…
The Editor speaks: Are people worth as much today as yesterday?
My Editorial was prompted by an article we published today from TechCrunch titled “Make people valuable again”. I have been wondering recently, with the increasing use of robots, are we phasing ourselves out of being useful employees. If you believe…
The Editor speaks: The Boeing 737 Max 8
It couldn’t have come at a worse time with Cayman Airways recent announcement they are soon to replace their fleet with the Boeing 737 Max 8. Just very recently a new Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Indonesia and a…
The Editor speaks: Garbage & power
The two things we have had in common this holiday weekend is plenty of garbage all over the streets of Newlands, where I live, due to its non-collection, again, plus two power outages – one yesterday afternoon/evening and another around…
The Editor Speaks: Why we remember them
This holiday weekend and more particularly this Sunday (11), is held each year to remember all those brave souls who fought for us in the two World Wars. Many lost their lives. This year is particularly important as it marks…
The Editor speaks: OfReg the costly regulatory government office
I rarely comment on Freedom of Information requests sourced from another media company’s article. Today is an exception. It is with some amazement to learn from an article published recently in the Cayman Compass that states OfReg, the government Utility…
The Editor Speaks: Social services must be top priority NOT on the back burner
It was with much continuing outrage as I was reading Auditor General Sue Winspear’s latest OAG Report, “Follow-up on Past PAC Recommendations”. It said he Cayman Islands Government has been very slow to implement recommendations made by her office and…
These ‘Crab Dawgs’ have no shame – Guyana Gov. did the right thing
By Dennis Adonis From Guyana Guardian Before I get to what I really want to say, let me point out a few things that readers have to first understand, so that the crocodile tears that some crooked people are crying…