Topic: Caymanian Compass

The year was 1974 – it was a very different Cayman at the time. No TV, no radio, no roundabouts. If you took a photograph with your Kodak Instamatic camera, your film was sent away to Miami for processing and you’d see the prints about three weeks later.

The May 2 crash in East End that killed three U.K. tourists and a Jamaican man was not the deadliest traffic wreck in Cayman Islands history.

In the Aug. 10, 1966 edition of the Caymanian Compass, a precursor of the Cayman Compass, George Town correspondent Frances Bodden wrote: “Captain Tracy Bodden of Tampa returned home on the July 28 after a grand old time."

“Gail McIntyre and Susan McBride from Canada, who are visiting the Girls’ Brigade, spent six days in this district, two of which were at the Tortuga Club through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Bergstrom."

Muhammad Ali was front page news in the Caymanian Compass for four days straight in 1984 when he visited Grand Cayman – twice.

“There was a lovely wedding at the Pilgrim Holiness Church on the 21st with Rev. John Croft officiating when Mr. Spencer Bennett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Bennett of Bonacca, Spanish Honduras, took as his bride Miss Norma Jean Jefferson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Jefferson."