At the risk of sounding like a broken record (for those of you who understand the derivation of that expression), the story that won’t go away again made the front page, in the 1 May 1974 Cayman Compass. In this instalment, ‘Sheppie And Dale To Be Tried in Mexico’, the two CID officers who travelled to Mexico to bring the two men charged with stealing the Cayman Pilot boat back to Cayman, were told that under Mexican law, the proceedings had to take place in Mexico since they had already started. And the boat’s captain, Gleason Ebanks, would not have to stay in Mexico to testify because, the Compass was told, under the Mexican system of law, witnesses were not necessary.
Two months after the founding of British Airways, an airline official said in Cayman that BA had under ‘close study’ the prospects of serving Cayman in the future. While in Cayman, two representatives of the airline met with local travel and tourism officials, as well as Norman Bodden, the general manager of Cayman Airways/LACSA, the sales agents for BA.
The Compass editorial addressed ‘The Dignity Of Labour’, with the newspaper published on 1 May, known as May Day, which celebrates workers across the world. Though the editorial notes that no such holiday exists in Cayman, “we recognise at all times that there is dignity in labour and that the workman is worthy of his hire”.
The Rotary Club of Grand Cayman and the government announced they would be cooperating on building and running a boys home in West Bay to accommodate and rehabilitate juveniles locally. The total cost of the facility would be about $75,000, with Rotary member Jim MacDonald calling it a small amount compared to what Cayman would face if the young men were sent to schools in Jamaica where they would ‘mix with criminal elements’ of that country.
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