In a front-page story in the 8 May 1974 Cayman Compass, Executive Council member for health Benson Ebanks recognised the Cayman Rugby Club for organising a fundraiser to benefit the Grand Cayman Hospital. The funds raised from the walk-a-thon would enhance and expand the hospital’s physiotherapy section, including purchasing equipment that could treat people suffering from arthritis, burns, low back pain and fractures, among others. Hospital administrator John Whalen called on other sports associations or individuals to raise additional funds.
Also on page one was a photo of students at the International College of the Cayman Islands being filmed while at work in the reference library. Director Roger Good, pictured with cameraman Alan Hewison, hoped a copy of the film, which would be used to raise funds for ICCI, would be on island within a month.
This week’s editorial focused on ‘An Independent Prison Service’, with the proposed system eliminating the feeling that, when serving a prison sentence, a man or woman is cut off from society for life. While there must be punishment, the editorial said, prisons can also be used as places of reform. With independent administration, the prison officer would regard the inmate as someone who, though paying the penalty for wrongdoing, could possibly be given a new outlook so they can be guided to a new life after release. The editorial also ‘strongly advised’ that the prison should boast ‘iron-clad security’, saying Cayman had nearly become the ‘laughing stock for prison escapes’, with four such incidents over the last year.
And, finally, a photo inside the newspaper showed a Cable and Wireless crew who would be working to provide 2,000 more local telephone lines by June 1975, in addition to eight switchboards and an international circuit through Jamaica. Another 1,000 lines were expected to be added in July 1976.
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