The Editor Speaks: Sometimes it is not a good thing to ‘hedge your bets’
With a seemingly wave of public discontent with the past United Democratic Party (UDP) Government but claiming the mess our country is in is mainly due to the party system and not its leadership, the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) candidates…
PWD conducts shuttering exercise
Members of the public are advised that the Public Works Department (PWD) and the National Roads Authority (NRA) will carry out their annual hurricane preparedness exercise on Thursday May 2, 2013. As part of the exercise PWD and the NRA…
The Editor Speaks: ICTA’s reluctance to get involved
It is not strange the Information Communication Technology Authority (ICTA), who is responsible for managing content on radio and television broadcasts in Cayman, have declined to act over Ezzard Miller’s formal complaint to them. The North Side MLA, Ezzard Miller,…
The Editor Speaks: Glidden tells all
Not surprising, when election time comes around a candidate will want to distance himself from someone who by association will not help his cause. West Bay MLA, and Cayman’s Tourism Minister, Cline Glidden, who had been elected over his last…
The Editor Speaks: Is it right to bash Cayman’s churches?
Over the past weeks some of Cayman’s media have led with stories brandishing Churches receive X$, Premier’s church receives X$, Church gives back X$, Another church gives back X$ and finally “Churches get $600K in 2013”. Then the Progressives get…
The Editor Speaks: A dilemma for voters wanting a change
With so many voter candidate options and the seemingly wave of opinion opting towards change, the Cayman voters are in a dilemma. The People’s Progressive Party Movement’s (PPM/Progressives) leader Alden McLaughlin pointed this out at the Party’s rally last Thursday…
The Editor Speaks: We shout, we cry, we want answers but we won’t listen and we won’t show up
The Coalition to Keep Bodden Town Dump Free has an impressive amount of backers. Public opinion seems to be swinging their way. The two previous United Democratic Party MLA’s, Mark Scotland and Cline Glidden, who had supported the Dart Group’s…
Boston bombs suspect ‘in custody’/FBI interviewed one in 2011
BBC The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been taken into custody in a suburb of the city, police have said. Gunfire was heard as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in a backyard in…
The Editor Speaks: Ramifications will hit Cayman’s reputation if 75% supermajority strata vote is allowed
I was speaking to an overseas investor who bought a condominium on our Seven Mile Beach last Monday (15). He was very angry. My wife and I were having dinner with him and his family at the condominium. It was…
The Editor Speaks: Speculation boiling over regarding PWC Report
In five weeks time the Cayman Islands goes to the polls and elects a new Legislative Assembly. The huge hot potato that has been boiling for a long time is about to explode. I am talking about the PricewaterhouseCoopers value…