The rising rates for telephones and electricity resulted in an all-day debate in the Legislative Assembly, the 24 Oct. 1974 edition of The Caymanian Compass reported. According to the article, G. Haig Bodden, the second elected member for Bodden Town, had filed a motion “deploring” those increases. In debating the motion, which was seconded by James M. Bodden, the first elected member for Bodden Town, many legislators “severely criticised” the increases by Cable and Wireless and the Caribbean Utilities Company, though “it was generally agreed that both companies were giving good service”. The motion failed.
Another front-page article told the story of a woman, Sharon Lee McCoy, who was struck by lightning while talking on a government phone at her mother’s house in Old Man Bay. At first semi-conscious and in shock, she was taken to the George Town Hospital but was now reported to be in good condition, except for muscle damage to her left ear, affecting her hearing. “It felt like needles going through my arms and legs on my left side,” McCoy said.
Page one also featured a photo of Sergeant Royal Anderson of the Traffic Department holding two boards covered in large spikes, which were discovered by radar car driver Constable Hilary Forde when he followed old tyre tracks off West Bay Road looking for a place to park. The headline for the photo says it all: ‘A Trap for the Radar Car’. This wasn’t the first time Forde had found these ‘traps’. The police were investigating the incident.
Sticking to traffic-related stories, a short piece on page 2, headlined ‘Speeders Beware!!’, pointed to an apparent crackdown by the Traffic Court on wayward drivers. To date for October, 18 people had their driver’s licences disqualified for a total of about 100 years, which included one man losing his licence for 50 years.
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