Mariculture once again was front-page news in the 23 Jan. 1974 edition of the Cayman Compass. The story this time was how the company had “introduced new and improved methods of preparing and exporting its turtles”. Production at the facility had been suspended for two months to carry out modifications “to attain standards in accordance with United States regulations”. The changes were made “to satisfy those who import turtles from Cayman and market them in [their] respective countries”.
Another story on page one told of the expected 1 Feb. opening of the now-defunct Victoria House, “a new 26-unit apartment/hotel” on Seven Mile Beach, just south of West Bay. The fully furnished apartments with “all-electric kitchens” would be rented to tourists by the day, week or month.
A topic that never seems to go out of date is the high cost of living, and the editorial, noting that “not even the sky seems to be the limit” for the continuing increases, said the high percentage of the rises was “alarming” amid the ongoing fuel crisis. The price of gas at the time was 68 cents per gallon, almost double the 35 cents it cost the year before, numbers that seem impossibly low today. While acknowledging that solutions to cost-of-living problems are “never easy”, the editorial ended with “it is for Government and people to give the matter very serious study with a view to easing the position”.
Four months after the Compass ran a story on the Governor’s Harbour development being sold, the news was that ‘leading architects’ Rutkowski, Bradley and Partners, which had designed the Legislative Assembly, Law Courts, police headquarters and government’s new administrative offices, had been engaged for the project. One of the first concerns for the planners was said to be to reduce the density of development envisaged by the previous owners by at least 50%.
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