A photo of produce in varying stages of decay featured on the front page of the 12 June Cayman Compass. The accompanying story told of the travails of the square-rigged Unicorn, which had sailed from Spanish Honduras where they had been forced to use canoes to bring the goods onto the ship because there were no loading facilities. Additionally, the ship developed engine trouble on the return journey to Cayman. The company which had imported the produce didn’t want to accept the shipment. In the end, a compromise was reached to sell whatever could be salvaged.
The front page also carried the announcement that the Cayman Compass was merging with the Caymanian Weekly to become the Caymanian Compass. The new newspaper was to be published once a week, hitting the streets on Wednesdays. “We are sure you will be pleased with this new publication since the joining of the two capable staff afford [it] a broader range of talent than each had individually,” the announcement said. The newspaper was going to sell for 25 cents, a savings of 15 cents per week for readers who had been buying both publications.
The editorial noted the ‘bouquet’ given to Cayman for its Constitution. It referred to a report by Lord Oxford on the ‘Review of the Constitution for the Turks and Caicos Islands’, in which he said, “The conclusion I reached was that a Cayman-type of constitution would be generally acceptable.” The editorial also pointed to Anguilla’s ‘desire for a Cayman-type Constitution’, and said “… it is no small wonder that the present Governor should refer to us as ‘The Fortunate Islands’ in his Throne Speech last year”.
And lastly, the good work of volunteers from Rotaract and the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman was highlighted in a photo of two people cleaning up the George Town Cemetery armed with a machete and a rake.
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