Capturing soul
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Listening to a beautiful piece of music, Variations on One String on a Theme By Rossini: Moses Fantasie – Janos Starker – Janos Starker: Virtuoso Music for Cello, on Qobuz the other night, and I found myself…
The Food Industry puts profits over public health using Big Tobacco’s Playbook
In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health. By Gigi Kellett / Independent Media Institute Public health advocates were winning. City after city was innovating ways…
‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia
By Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano From Independent Media Institute On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk soon after, “You know…
The Editor speaks: All Cayman’s athletes have been banned from competing world-wide
It is with much astonishment and dismay at reading a copy of a letter from the Cayman Islands Athletic Association to its members advising them that the North American Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) has imposed a sanction…
The problem with staying at home
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio …for me, at least, is the close proximity of the kitchen and, worse, the pantry. Arrgghh. Not much more than 1 year ago, after successfully following my doctor’s instructions to “lose that gut” because…
Sanders: A tale of two neighbours
Article by Sir Ronald Sanders, From OECS Communications Friday, July 24, 2020 — (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of…
OPINION: Did you or Milo tell them comrade?
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. July 23, 2020. Have Sandals been told the truth about Buccament Bay Resort? I ask the question because Ralph Gonsalves may just have forgot. Nothing to do with mendaciousness although that did cross my mind. So,…
The Editor speaks: A four year tourism plan to …….?
It was with some excitement when I downloaded the “Cayman Islands NTP – National Tourism Plan 2019-2023. I was going to learn how and when our government was going to get us all back on track to the recovery of…
The meaning of analog
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio “That sounds so…analog.” What does that actually mean? And what are we saying when we suggest something sounds “digital”. I wonder if our terminology isn’t out of date. We offer praise when a digital reproduction sounds analog yet…
The Editor speaks: Is anarchy taking over?
Anarchy is the state of a society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. It may also refer to a society or group of people that totally rejects a set hierarchy. – Wikipedia With, quite rightly, the press…