Media
Dart finances Hurley’s TV purchase
(CNS): The islands’ biggest developer has helped to finance the purchase of CITN by Hurley’s Entertainment, the new owner of the TV station, Randy Merren, has confirmed, though he stressed that the Dart Group has not directly invested in the TV station. When CNS contacted Dart about its interest in the station following the move by Hurley’s to Camana […]
No repeal on newspaper ad boycott, says Alden
(CNS): The premier has said that until the editor of Cayman’s only daily newspaper apologizes, not just for his editorial insulting the whole country but for his histrionics after the fact and his international media rounds in which he implied his life was in danger at the hands of the Caymanian people, the advertising boycott […]
Finance committee re-calls CoP over Legge security
(CNS): Police Commissioner David Baines has been recalled to Finance Committee in order to explain to members of the Legislative Assembly why the editor of a local daily newspaper was given police protection on the public dollar. During committee hearings on Thursday the deputy governor said the police guard for David Legge and his wife, Vicki, was […]
Chamber wants boycott reversed, weekly paper to go daily
(CNS Business): The Chamber of Commerce has called on government to repeal its advertising boycott of The Cayman Compass that was passed in the Legislative Assembly this week, saying it “sets a dangerous precedent” and undermines the principle of a free press. Meanwhile, the public sector ad ban, which amounts to well over $1 million a […]
Legge: Premier put a target on my back
(CNS): The editor of The Cayman Compass has said that he is not sure when he can return to Cayman because of the “hate speech” and “vitriol” against him after the premier “put a target on my back”, when he “named me by name” and had some pointed things to say. As David Legge did […]
The Man Who Ran
Nicky Watson writes: The world has gone mad. On Friday the Cayman Islands governor, rising on a tide of over-reaction and hyperbole, decided that David Legge, owner and editor of The Cayman Compass, needed police protection after he got an over-the-top verbal slapping from the premier in the Legislative Assembly.
Legge makes NY headlines as MLAs vote to boycott paper
(CNS): The editor of The Cayman Compass has told The New York Times that the premier’s statement on Friday berating him over allegations of corruption against the whole country had “created such an atmosphere” that he and his wife needed protection. David Legge told the publication that the protection was put in place not by […]
Cop protection costs for editor queried
(CNS): The RCIPS has refused to comment on the security detail it reportedly arranged for the editor of a local newspaper in Cayman at the weekend or whether or not a threat assessment had been carried out over the statement made by the premier accusing him of treason. Independent MLA Ezzard Miller noted in the LA that […]
Newspaper accused of ‘treason’
(CNS): An editorial which appeared on Wednesday in the only daily newspaper in Cayman was described as “treasonous” by the premier in the Legislative Assembly on Friday. But the allegations in the opinion piece by the editor and his board about local corruption that upset all legislators as well as the country’s leader may have […]
