Justice Cooke is entitled to an apology, says QC.
Dear iNews, On the 31st August 2011, after a trial lasting 15 days, Mr. Justice Cooke delivered a reserved judgment consisting of 35 pages in which he found Devon Anglin not guilty of the murder of your year old Jeremiah…
Quit your day job now
Most of us would stop working if we could. Quit immediately and here’s why. 1. You’ll have more time to devote to reading my articles and columns. This will enable me to become a household name at our unemployment office….
Tourism and the blame game
With cruise ship arrivals down for July (in a decade) and hotel occupancy rates not improving over last year’s dismal figures, the Cayman Island Government is celebrating the improvements in stay over tourism and air arrivals. Any crumbs that fall…
Does anyone keep a scrapbook anymore?
“Sadly it seems to be a thing of the past” Do you keep a scrapbook? Have you ever kept a scrapbook? The answer to the first one is probably ‘No.’ The answer to the second depends on your age. I…
More cash for policing
I think the whole country will welcome the news that the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) will be receiving a million dollars to pay for extra officers and vital equipment including bulletproof vests and improving equipment to interview suspects….
White Paper review
Statement in regards to the 1999 White Paper by the Hon. W. McKeeva Bush, OBE, JP Presented in the Legislative Assembly on the 7 September, 2011 Madam Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to briefly address this Honourable…
77 NOT OUT
On Joan’s 77th Birthday lOth Sept ‘11 Seventy-seven and not out is a pretty good score If I were playing cricket I would certainly want more But I consider myself lucky to have reached this age Giving me more time…
“Oh. He’s an American.”
If sometimes, weighed down with the complexities of their empire now we British have given it up or had it taken away (by the Americans), I wonder if America could be freedom’s fading star? However, the nation is so young…
Life’s storybook cover
We are approaching some very memorable days on ‘life’s storybook cover’ as Scottish singer Isla Grant’s beautiful song puts it. Unfortunately for many of us there is nothing beautiful about the first two on the cover. It will be ten…
I hate dentists
I hate to go to the dentist. When I was young, they used to lie to me to get me there. Of course once I knew what was happening I would throw a crying fit in the car, in the…
