Once again, the seas around Grand Cayman attracted the attention of US researchers, reported in a front-page story on the 15 Aug. 1973 edition of the Cayman Compass. Marine biologists and other scientists from various US universities travelled here to study the reefs and plankton, as well as the chemistry of the surrounding ocean. The survey was to take 10 days, with the research ship Tursiops (named for a genus of dolphins) continuing oceanographic work until 1 Sept.
A photo on page 4 illustrates a long-running problem in Cayman – the random dumping of derelict cars. The caption to the picture of junked vehicles, headlined, ‘Help Keep Cayman Clean’, said that left “a bad impression of George Town”, which certainly holds true 50 years later.
Over on Cayman Brac, a story detailed how Faith Hospital had been operating under a temporary agreement since 1971, pending the establishment of a “special licensed company”. But a deed of conveyance, made by Capt. Charles Kirkconnell, the former owner of that land, had enabled the company to enter into a final agreement with the government, so that the hospital will “be formally leased to the Cayman Islands Government for the next five years”. The result of that arrangement was to give government “full responsibility” for operating the facility, “which is part of the Medical Health Department of the Cayman Islands”.
And, lastly, a photo on page four, ‘Burning Bush’, depicted ganja about “to go up in smoke”, with PC Kenrick Hall placing some of the “forbidden weed” in the drum, watched by two police inspectors, with a justice of the peace there to certify the “destruction of the ganja”.
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