The Editor Speaks: I am disappointed and fearful for our country
The news as I write this editorial is disappointing. So much for “putting the country first”. The slogan of the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) today is “putting me first”. My delight at C4C candidate Tara River’s election and the Progressive’s…
The Editor Speaks: Important Cabinet Decisions Made
The Cayman Islands next premier, Alden McLaughlin had a very hard job in making his seven Cabinet appointments. McLaughlin doesn’t have a clear majority from his own Progressives (PPM) party having won nine out of eighteen seats. Tara Rivers and…
The Editor Speaks: It’s finally over
Of all the elections I have witnessed this one was the longest. Not to receive the final result until the following morning at 8:45am with an electoral vote of less than 15,000 persons to count is just not good enough….
CAYMAN ISLANDS FINAL RESULT!!!!
Note: All graphics taken from Cayman Islands Elections Office http://www.electionsoffice.ky/ *
The Editor Speaks: Who should I vote for?
This is a very difficult choice as listening to the candidates, reading the manifestos or plan are, as Lewis Carroll commented, all “much of a muchness”. There is no one person from either party, or coalition independents or ‘true’ independents,…
The Editor Speaks: Is this another plot by the Governor?
When our ex-premier McKeeva Bush receives bad publicity (that seems to be flowing well at this moment) he hits back with cries of plots by the Governor, or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or the Commissioner of Police, or a…
The Editor Speaks: No man. Manifesto no. Man, we have The Plan
The CoalitionforCayman (C4C) have come under fire and some ridicule from their political opponents, namely Cayman’s two parties, The Progressives (PPM) and the United Democratic Party (UDP) for not producing an election manifesto. The Progressives hit out at the C4C…
The Editor Speaks: At last C4C become clear (almost), PPM say thank you with an attack and Mac is a believer
The last 24 hours has been interesting. I will start with the very last first. This morning, after my two Editorials on the subject of why don’t the independents tell us whom they would not support if it came to…
Flare gun, mask and bayonet seized during house search – Man in custody
A man has been arrested and is currently detained in police custody after an early morning raid on a house in East End. About 5.45 am today (Wednesday, 15 May) officers searched a house in John McLean Drive, East End….
The Editor Speaks: Am I a lone voice in saying how unimpressed I am with the Independents’ campaign?
I can still remember the excitement when the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) came on the scene last year at the end of November when well over a thousand of us assembled in the AL Thompson’s parking lot. We wanted a…