The 5 June 1974 Cayman Compass contained a short update on the front page which pointed to the end of the saga of the stolen boat Cayman Pilot, which had been taken to Mexico. The boat was finally returned to Cayman on 30 May by Captain Gleason Ebanks, Billy Yates and Goldbourne Ebanks. According to Captain Ebanks, the future of the boat, which was now safely anchored in George Town Harbour, “is the same as it was before – turtling”.
Page one also carried a story on the Cayman Islands Bus and Transportation Company, formed by a group of 19 taxi drivers, to run two single-decker air conditioned buses. The first bus to arrive “was already in swinging business taking passengers from the cruise ship Southward to Hell and Mariculture”. Jean Doucet, the president of Sterling Bank, which assisted in the acquisition of the two buses, told those gathered for the handing over of keys for the first vehicle, that “taxi drivers are the most important people in these islands – you greet the visitors” and take them to various places. “Your responsibility is great, and we want to help you,” he added.
The entertainment section featured a piece on country and western night at the Galleon Beach Hotel. The event, at which guests dressed the part including sporting an array of cowboy hats, was such a great success that the hotel took out an ad on the same page to apologise to the “hundreds of people” they had to turn away at the door.
A photo included in coverage of the various districts, showed ‘A Proud Pickler’. Newton Hanchard, a Jamaican who had been living in Cayman for 17 years, “combines artistic talent with a great skill in pickling”. He was photographed holding a large bottle of pickles cut in the shapes of fish, animals and flowers from cabbage, cho-cho, turnips, carrots and radishes.
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