Topic: The Caymanian Weekly
50 years ago: Twice weekly editions start, lost handbag with $50K and four Jamaicans...
The Caymanian Compass started publishing two editions 50 years ago this week.
In the Tuesday, 4 May 1976 edition, the top article was on a millionairess claiming to have lost $50,000 on a fishing trip.
When ‘Bruce Lee’ came to town
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.
50 years ago: Abandoned cars
“Our camera has caught another of the many wrecked cars littered by the roadsides of Grand Cayman. This one has been parked for months near where the government has built cottages for expatriate officers on South Church Street."
