The front page of the 2 Aug. 1973 Cayman Compass showed two Caymanians – Rudy Ebanks, who sadly passed away last month, and Timmy Adam – as they headed off island for training overseas before taking up jobs at Cable & Wireless, first at Cornwall Technical College to study the “theory and practice of Electronics”. The two would then attend the company’s own technical college for six months training on “various types of radio and transmission apparatus” they would be working with in Cayman. Adam and Ebanks were described as “close friends since boyhood, keen scholars and scouts” with the local C&W manager happy “to offer both these lads this parallel career opportunity”.
The section, ‘Something Of Value’, headlined ‘From Wreck To Reef’’, promoted the idea of using the ubiquitous abandoned cars strewn about the island (which easily falls in the category of ‘history repeating itself’ in the present day) as artificial reefs, pre-dating the Kittiwake by about 40 years. These reefs “could be constructed at various locations, at various depths”, the Cayman Islands Conservation Association said, offering a chance to study habitation and marine growth over the long term.
An iconic building in George Town was on the cusp of getting its corner stone laid. Special guests at the planned 15 Aug. ceremony for the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Smith Road, included the president of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists, and Cayman’s Chief Secretary Desmond Watler. The church, on which construction began in January that year, was expected to cost about $100,000 and seat up to 700 people.
And then there was the photo headlined, “A LOTTA BEEFeater’, which showed two men in front of part of the “largest shipment ever” of 400 cases of the best-selling gin on the island. Lenny Hew, who was to receive the bottles, said “the large order was due mostly to good advertising in the Compass”.
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