The 3 April 1974 edition of the Cayman Compass contained an ad that starkly shows how much prices have changed from 50 years ago. Announcing a ‘Costa Rica Special Holiday’, the advertisement from International Travel offered a five-day trip, including airfare, hotel, tours and transfers, at $125 per person. And let’s leave it at that.
The editorial that week praised the Humphrey’s Foundation for donating a $10,000 scholarship to help the hotel industry “lay an excellent foundation in a country where at present many engaged in this field are expatriates”. Pointing out that the hotel industry was growing rapidly, it continued, “Now that Caymanians themselves are offered the opportunity to take their rightful place in the building” up of the sector, “we commend the Foundation for their shining example”. The scholarship will enable three qualified Caymanians to attend an 18-month course in Miami which will lead to an associate degree in hotel and restaurant management.
Also inside, attorney O.L. Panton sponsored a survey about television in Cayman. The two questions asked were whether it would be good for Cayman and if Cayman was ready for television. Stay tuned (pun intended) for the results, which will come out in a later issue.
And, finally for this week, there was an article about ‘Newspapers And Your Child’. Noting that the function of the press is “inestimable”, the story continued that on publication day, “People sitting in cars, passing by in taxis, even at their jobs in different businesses, are all browsing through the paper.” Calling the newspaper a “living textbook”, it said, however, that most children only pick up a paper to read the comics, “but once you take the time, in your own home or the classroom, to break down [stories] into a more simple and interesting form for… children”, the exercise will be rewarding. Bottom line? “[T]he newspaper can become the most important text… in any classroom.”
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