In the 20 Nov. 1975 edition of The Caymanian Compass, a front-page story reported on meat and cattle being brought in from Swan Island, under a special government provision, even though Honduran territories were on the list of countries from which meat imports were banned. Caymanians who owned cattle on Swan Island wanted to take their livestock out after the change in sovereignty from US to Honduran. While an official in the Department of Tourism, Lands, Natural Resources and Agriculture said government did not want to give those Caymanians any undue economic harm, after 30 Nov., the ban on the imports would be observed.
A page 1 photo, ‘Northwester Strikes’, showed how a recent storm had damaged the new harbour project. The storm knocked out loose fill and some of the piled-up blocks fell into the water, but if the waves had been stronger, the crane in the picture “might have gone too”.
Then, on page 3, there was a story about Annie Huldah Bodden, elected member of the Legislative Assembly for George Town, warning fellow MLAs there could be a march because of increased duties being levied on vehicles. She told legislators that this was another instance of rumours following her and not her following rumours, stating that someone had told her that ‘certain people’ were organising a march, and adding, “I hope this is not true.”
On the same page was a photo of a car that unfortunately ran off Crewe Road at 1am near the airport entrance, ending up in the swamp half full of water due to the recent heavy rains.
The editorial that week included a section headed ‘Pride of the Caribbean’, about Cayman boasting “some of the finest buildings” in the region. Noting the recent addition of the four-storey glass Administrative Building, it said, “For our size, we have some of the most modern – and almost magnificent structures – in the world.”
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