The big news for the 26 April edition of the Cayman Compass was the story, ‘2 Children Sent Back To Cuba’. They were returned to their mother, who had won a custody battle and had since remarried a “high Cuban official”. The nephew of the woman who had been caring for the children while the father was off island said, “It’s like condemning them to Hell.”
A ‘Local Drug Dog’ was featured in a photo with his owner, Nell Connor, who said Baso found a “bundle of ganja” that was inside a box on top of a pile of lumber behind the Lighthouse Club in Breakers. She wasn’t sure what it was, so she asked her husband to take a look and then told her brother, who was a police sergeant.
Stanley Panton was profiled as one of the ‘Businessmen In The News’, as the owner of Sta-Mar Enterprises, the only customs brokerage on the island. Panton’s “brainchild… incorporates all the things which make up imports and exports to and from the island”. His wife Marjorie was his bookkeeper and “moral support at the office”. In addition to his business acumen, the article noted he was also “a very enthusiastic actor” as well as an “accomplished ventriloquist but has retired from it now because he says, ‘It takes too much out of me.’”
And, finally, a letter to the editor lamented the “deplorable thieving that is now rife on the island”. The reader wrote, “Only three years ago, one could leave a house unprotected and a car unlocked and the contents would remain untouched but today, sadly, this is no longer the case.” He added, “I personally have lost groceries and a rug from my car within strides of the Town Hall” in George Town.
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