Topic: Letter to the editor
Letter – Celebrate values like courage and fairness
I saw Kirkland Nixon toe-to-toe with captains of industry and high-priced attorneys on fundamental principles, and on each occasion principle to him was like bedrock.
Letter: Wonderful memories of Grand Cayman
In 1971 … the Legislative Assembly Building and Law Courts were yet to appear. There was no TV or radio and we never locked our front door or took the keys out of the car.
Letter: MRCU responds to GeneWatch FOI release
New MRCU Director Jim McNelly Ph.D. says his team and Oxitec are in agreement on how, where and when to proceed with the evaluation. It will also be up to MRCU to evaluate what success will look like.
Oxitec responds to report
MRCU has rightfully carried out their due diligence with regards to the Friendly Mosquitoes solution and has always been supportive of the technology.
Letter: The values of Kirkland Nixon
Let us all thank God that we were blessed with such a special man as Mr. Nixon.
Letter: Concerns about children and safety
I have been to see a Councilor in the Ministry of Education about several issues concerning our schoolchildren that are of great concern to me, and I believe others as well.
Letter: Welcome to Cayman’s new governor
Keep up the good work, sir.
Letter: Eager for Cayman Airways’ westward flights
We hope your considerations are quickly confirmed as we look forward to booking our two to three flights next year on Cayman Airways from Denver.
Letter: Work together to keep Cayman clean
Our country was also known to be one of the cleanest, if not the cleanest in the Caribbean. LET’S KEEP IT THIS WAY.
Letter: Grateful for excellent medical care
All of my doctors had an excellent bedside manner and kept my spirits up which is important when going into surgery and recovering.
Letter: Sunday liquor sales set bad example
I am truly puzzled why there is such desperation to go without liquor for a day. It is pure nonsense that our tourists demand it. No, our liquor merchants demand it.
Letter: Cleanup effort is wasted without follow-through
The recent islandwide effort by members of the public, who voluntarily took time out from their personal schedules to pick up thousands of individual pieces of garbage carelessly strewn around by irresponsible fellow island dwellers, is an almost wasted effort.
Letter: Supermarkets, please help reduce plastic waste
I would also recommend that [supermarkets] use paper containers that are more eco-friendly and are compostable.
Letter: Destroy eggs to control green iguana population
Why not research the possibility of tackling the problem by dealing with the up to 70 or so eggs laid by every female iguana during a year?
Letter: Government is right to cull Sister Islands’ feral cats
All the feral cats I find on my property, I will give them to the government.
Letter: Proud of Cayman’s generosity
When there is so much bad news about, we found shaking a tin a very uplifting experience. If you get an opportunity to do it in the future, we would recommend it. It will make you feel good.
Letter: Goodbye to governor, from Cayman Brac
She was an exemplary representative of H.M. Government and beloved in the Cayman Islands during her tenure.
Letter: A marvelous start to an unforgettable day
Imagine meeting St. Fabian and the devil in one very full, unforgettable day!
Letter: Items trigger fond memories of Cayman
The children who gave me their art are all grown up now, but I am writing this letter from far away to tell them how much joy their gift has given me and what wonderful memories of Cayman it still triggers in me after all these years.
Letter: Grateful for timely care
Their attentive care enabled me to enjoy Christmas with loved ones instead of having to be in bed.
Christmas message from Her Excellency The Governor
I would like to thank all the people of the Cayman Islands for making me so welcome when I arrived and for making my time here truly such a pleasure. It has been a privilege to experience the culture and tremendous sense of community that you all share.
Letter: Thoughts for members of our Legislative Assembly
Our MLAs need to listen to the people and adhere to their wishes. A petition should never be necessary. They are supposed to be working for us; we are their employers!
MAIL CALL: Motorbike mania
Editorial Writer Jennifer Hemmingsen shares readers' comments on the "rogue biker" situation on Grand Cayman.
Protecting marine life is a matter of survival
Spearfishing is only one part of a large variety of ways that I believe we must change our take from the reefs if we hope to solve this problem before it is too late for our most important, most endangered species.
Letter: Supporting our youths’ musical development
For the last four years Cayman Arts Festival have worked with the government schools to identify and support gifted and talented students. Cayman Arts then puts everything possible in place to help the identified students succeed.
MAIL CALL: Suggestions for Cayman
Editorial Writer Jennifer Hemmingsen talks about a recent letter to the editor -- "10 suggestions for Cayman" -- that stirred up some lively conversation.
Anguilla is grateful for aid from Cayman
We are gradually recovering but it will take quite a while before we are fully recovered, but we would not be at this stage without your thoughtfulness, decisiveness and generosity.
MAIL CALL: Sunday liquor sales
Should Sunday liquor sales be liberalized in Cayman? Editorial Writer Jennifer Hemmingsen outlines competing viewpoints.
The necessity of true values-based decisions
I suppose that policies and decisions are made by those in authority on the basis of what is fair. But fair to whom?
Letter: Why focus on Sunday liquor sales?
With all the other things happening on this island, why do they want to focus on the matter of what people do on Sundays?
Letter: 10 suggestions for Cayman
Others may follow, but Cayman must remain the leader. We cannot lose sight of this challenge.
LETTER – Liquor board erred in licensing gas stations
Irrespective of the very important issue of what the law says concerning Sunday sales of alcohol, I still maintain that two separate cabinet orders currently exist and that the Liquor Licensing Board was wrong to grant liquor licenses to gas stations in the first place.
LETTER – Director of Public Prosecutions Response to Compass ‘snail bail’ editorial
Whilst [it] is perfectly open for investigatory agencies to comment publicly about the submission of files to this office, it is not our general policy to do so.
LETTER – Should gas stations sell alcohol on Sundays?
In my opinion, this gas station should never have been allowed to sell liquor in the first instance on any day of the week, due to its proximity to schools.
LETTER – Human Rights Commission: Our efforts to help Cuban migrants
Ordinarily I would not trouble to respond to inaccurate stories in the press; however, on this occasion you have unfairly maligned the staff of the Commissions Secretariat and undermined the work of the Commission. The record should be set straight.
Letter – A lovely vacation on the Brac
It is low key, not commercial, and just a lovely place to spend a lovely vacation, with delightful people interested in leaving a good impression of their island.
LETTER – Human Rights Commission: Our efforts to help Cuban migrants
Ordinarily I would not trouble to respond to inaccurate stories in the press; however, on this occasion you have unfairly maligned the staff of the Commissions Secretariat and undermined the work of the Commission. The record should be set straight.
Premier is correct: sections 41 and 43 of National Conservation Law are ridiculous
The provisions of sections 41 and 43, in my opinion, do not meet the test, mandated by the Constitution, of a reasonable balance between protecting the environment and development for the benefit of the Islands.
Letter: Think before approving changes to our shoreline
Let us work together — building wisely for the future, as our forefathers built up Cayman — from the Islands Time Forgot to the financial leaders of the world.
MAIL CALL: Letter writers say, ‘Thanks, Cayman!’
Two visitors wrote in recently to thank Cayman Islands residents for performing good deeds. Editorial writer Jennifer Hemmingsen reads the letters to the editor in this week's Weekend Mail Call.
Letter: Why all this hatred for ‘Foots’?
The scripture tells us that God created us equal in His image and likeness, so how can we have hatred in our hearts concerning Mr. Kynes and his art pieces?
Visitors are grateful for bystander’s aid
This was ... a shining example of the character of the friendly people of Grand Cayman, and why we return to your island as often as possible
Letter: Gift appreciated by visitors
He said it was the Cayman way and, truly, that said a lot.
Governments play a role in paving way for electric vehicles
Fortunately, the Cayman Government is playing its part with plans which include for zero duty on EV’s for a five-year period.
Letter: Time again to petition government about fuel terminal
As I see it, it has become time again for us all to send another petition to our government, as these facilities sit in our central business and tourism district and could cause an unimaginable catastrophe if another fire were to occur and is not able to be contained.
Something new in Cayman education? Let’s return to the old
I would venture a guess that Linton Tibbetts, when growing up on the Brac, was not taught the “new” math.
Letter: Gov. Cardinall would have been delighted
Once again, thank you, all of you Cayman Islanders for appreciating the work of people like my great uncle.
Cleaning Cayman’s beaches
I have a few thoughts on beach cleanup efforts, debris that washes up, and effective ways of beautifying and keeping our environment clean over the long term. I clean beaches because a polluted beach offends me. However, I’m not fooling myself. Cleaning a beach is not doing much to halt pollution.
To the people who stole my scooter
I love the Cayman Islands and its people. I enjoy both expats as well as native Caymanians. This country is very special and I am so happy to be here, but it is disappointing that some do their best (or is it their worst) to attempt to spoil it for the rest of us.
Ministry responds to Compass editorial
I would be grateful if you could publish this letter to clarify and correct two key points made in your editorial of March 8.
Nation Building: Promises, hope, disappointment
A very interesting story of government promises, well-meaning hope and bigger disappointment.
Letter to the Editor: Cayman recycling a mess
Author says recycling bins at supermarkets are not set up properly.
Letter to the Editor: Public burial spaces
Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush says government has an obligation to provide public cemeteries.
Top story of 2014: George Town dump: several fires, slow progress
A review of developments with the George Town landfill in 2014.
Owen Roberts: Passenger upgrade on the way
The airport depature lounge expansion is welcome, but only a Band-Aid solution to a problem that impacts the impressions of visitors.
Temporary airport expansion planned
Airport bosses hope to have a temporary expansion to the Owen Roberts International Airport departure lounge in place by December to ease persistent congestion problems ahead of the busy tourist season.
George Town Landfill: 25 years of broken promises
Cayman Islands legislators have discussed the problems with the George Town Landfill, appointed committees, commissioned studies and made promises they haven't kept for almost a quarter of a century.
GT landfill: Process is not progress
Minister Osbourne Bodden accuses the Compass of "scaremongering" on the dump issue. The truth is, Cayman residents have very good reasons to be afraid.
Brac artist: Freedom of speech being stifled
Local painter/sculptor says his art is biblical, not voodoo.
Trash talk from Bodden Town
The George Town dump is an island-wide problem requiring an island-wide solution that does not favor one district, including Bodden Town, over another.
Getting published
We want to clarify how members of the public can get information onto the pages of the Compass.
‘Get off of my land’
Land trumps politics. And may it always be so in these Cayman Islands.
Conservation Law covers only 6 percent of land
Provisions to protect land from development in the National Conservation Law won't affect private landowners.
Wiretapping furor: Who’s listening?
The government should prevent, stop and/or undo enhanced police surveillance initiatives.
UCCI president responds to bias allegation
President of UCCI Roy Bodden responds to an earlier letter from Frank McField.
Protesters want dump to stay put
Campaigners against a waste management facility in the Bodden Town area maintain it is the wrong option for the Cayman Islands.
Cayman Turtle Farm refutes Tanya Streeter’s claims
The Cayman Islands Turtle Farm refutes statements made by Tanya Streeter.
The discretion of the DPP
Writer says there should be some oversight of the DPP in the Cayman Islands.
Editorial for 29 June: Politics always about debate
The Caymanian Compass strives to encourage discussion and debate on important issues.
It is wise to move road
I write as a follow up to Mr Richard Arch's letter to the Editor of 29th May and enclose an aerial photo, taken about 1960, of the then recently completed road stretching from what is now the Wharf towards the Beach Club, (which is on the lower right corner of the picture) showing how completely undeveloped Cayman was at that time.
Equal voting rights for everyone
Writer believes he has the answer for equal voting rights for all.
Editorial for 12 March: Fair and balanced reporting necessary
The upcoming 2013 elections will be hotly contested, to say the least.
