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The Editor speaks: A message from over 2,00 years ago is still the same today

I was invited to deliver a message in person this morning (Wed 8) based on three Biblical readings Psalm 72, Nehemiah 13: 4-22, and Matthew 13: 53-58. I was struck just how pertinent the message from all three was just …

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The Editor speaks: When it’s OK to steal

Thou shalt not steal. Right? Right! If you steal you will be punished. Right? Wrong!! Sometimes it’s OK!!! If someone breaks into my house and steals ANYTHING that rightfully belongs to me he is breaking the law and should be…

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The Editor speaks: The pigeons are now redundant

It is FINALLY a sign of progress that the six Cayman Islands retail banks has announced they have signed a contract making pigeons that have been used up until now, redundant. Brian Esau, President of the Cayman Islands Bankers’ Association,…

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The Editor speaks: Teaching

The 5th October is World Teacher’s Day where all the persons in this “most honourable” of all professions are recognised. Our Minister of Education Juliana O’Connor Connolly so described the teaching profession as most honourable and she is right. It…

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The Editor speaks: Red tape will strangle our non-profit organizations

Red tape will strangle our non-profit organizations It is very unusual for me to disagree with Michael Myles but there is always exceptions. Myles is with Youth Anti-Crime Trusts and I am surprised government authorities have not listened to him…

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The Editor speaks: Is the teeth real or false?

The Older Persons Law 2017 came into effect today (Monday 17) but is it really going to make a cent of difference? Has the law real teeth or is it just false? The law was passed in the Legislative Assembly…

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The Editor speaks: Immigration reform

Although the government have engaged local consultants Deloitte on a Process Improvement Project (the “Project”) to support its role in delivering strategic and policy direction to the Department of Immigration (DoI) they are still relying on the public’s input. Immigration…

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The Editor speaks: Why do we ignore warnings?

In one of our stories today under the heading “Woman dead after being hit by jet blast at Caribbean beach” it shows the complete disregard to a sign that stated very clearly “Jet blast of departing and arriving aircraft can…

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The Editor speaks: This bird is not singing

Please see my last two Editorials on The Three Little Birds One of our three birds is not singing. Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) vice president Bruce Blake, the first of two local men arrested by anti-corruption investigators last week…

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The Editor speaks: The three birds have finally sung

Following on from my Editorial yesterday “Three Little Birds” re the Cayman Islands Football Association’s seemingly deaf and dumbness to their former President and current VP Bruce Blake’s arrest FINALLY we have a song from them: “Cayman Islands Football Association…