tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31253031253538402622011-12-31T05:57:29.649-05:00Better than the average Bullsh*t about the Cayman Islands.Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-25668551990350491322011-10-28T08:25:00.004-05:002011-10-28T08:39:06.905-05:00

Finally got rid of the last blow-up doll and closed a chapter on a business wonder scheme that looked like it would never fly. All down to another Rapture forecast. Thanks guys! Pranksters bought up the stock, filled them with helium and set them loose after I marketed them as 'I-cant-believe-it's-not-apocalypse' party ware. The dolls were quite realistic, that was one of the design features

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-78977396571162655442011-10-12T18:06:00.002-05:002011-10-12T18:17:18.905-05:00

I have received the following from an outraged (is there any other sort?) UK Daily Mail reader Dear Baldric, I find it scandalous that British journalists are swanning around Caribbean islands under the pretext of conducting investigations into British police officers allegedly swanning around Caribbean islands when there is more than enough muck needing raking back in the UK. Why

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-76095311097182939572011-08-18T08:00:00.001-05:002011-08-18T08:00:10.122-05:00

Q. What's the difference between Nation Building and Buying Votes? A. Twelve months in Northward God, supposedly, moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform but Mac wants a piece of that action. So Mac created and administered a special fund, also in a mysterious way, for handing out public money to Ministers (church variety). His Holiness the Pope of  West Bay Pending God blowing

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-9531637508392354602011-08-12T06:00:00.001-05:002011-08-18T03:45:10.940-05:00

Freetard: defn A person whose ability to make rational decisions is impaired by the possibility of receiving something for free.   I bumped into the Duke of Earl the other day. I'd heard he was more or less off the booze. He only ever drank to forget and his memory is so drink impaired these days that, while he still drinks on the days he recalls what he was trying to forget, on

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-61842224904664278432011-05-22T11:22:00.000-05:002011-05-22T11:22:22.307-05:00

So how was your Rapture? I had fun putting a scare into Mrs B. Mrs B is a pretty hard case - think Sarah Palin on steroids suffering from industrial strength PMT and wearing a fright mask. But she can be credulous if something like The Rapture is repeated in the news often enough and she had been drawn in. She says she married me for my sense of humor, and I married her out of conviction, or

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-16408614827577445742011-05-20T05:56:00.000-05:002011-05-20T05:56:42.452-05:00

Jeez! What's Gordon Barlow been smokin'? Is he about to check into the rubber room? The brain-dump that was his blog on the shooting of Osama Bin Laden makes for worrying reading.   I don't see how his blog intro, using a mildly racist Irish joke, and the peppering of Dead Osama 'jokes' squares with the normally tight-assed PC credentials of Oral Gob Drown (anag.). Perhaps it was intended

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-13092133704686942922011-05-13T15:31:00.000-05:002011-05-13T15:31:44.816-05:00

In one episode of the UK radio comedy the Goon Show parliament debates criticisms of extravagant and wasteful spending by the government. Defending against the naysayers the Prime Minister points out that no lighthouses were built in The Strand (think Broadway in NY) last year, only a single tunnel was constructed from the House Of Commons to the The Folies Bergère in Paris and it was lit with

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-63912500069125161792011-04-28T09:00:00.000-05:002011-04-28T09:28:31.305-05:00

Concern for conservation and preservation in the Cayman Islands is on the rise. Wendy Ledger wrote recently in CNS -  A sea change ahoy -  about grass-roots environmental (and cultural) concerns that may coalesce to form a new political party. If that were to happen then, ironically, yet another species, the MLA Parrot,  would be immediately and critically endangered. In contrast to other

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-41072397602034272332011-04-09T12:29:00.000-05:002011-04-09T12:29:55.329-05:00

Stop it Girls! Or at least wait until I can find a camera. Babbity Barwick (a real person) was taken to task by Knal N Domp (the assumed persona of a late-middle-aged male Insurance Pro.) for being lukewarm in her affection for her adopted Grand Cayman home,  - as reported in the Financial Times "A gilded cage" (sic) Not that Knal has ever had a bad word to say about Cayman   On

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-50993812655036726492011-02-13T09:15:00.000-05:002011-02-13T09:15:02.379-05:00

The deputy premier, who is the minister with responsibility for communications, will be leading a Cayman delegation to Spain for the Global System for Mobile Communications Association Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Juliana O’Connor-Connolly and the team will be leaving the Cayman Islands Friday for the four day conference, which is an annual telecommunications industry event, bringing

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-46847140605740890222010-12-11T16:57:00.002-05:002010-12-11T17:29:23.943-05:00

I suppose an overheated brain is an occupational hazard of wearing 66 ounces (I'm guessing) of horsehair piled on your head in a hot climate. How else to explain the actions against Caymanian Compass reporter, Brent Fuller, by The Legislative Assembly  Speaker, Mary Lawrence, for his report on the formation of a committee to 'look into' the Freedom of Information law? Brent had his LA reporting

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-19375769327957358192010-10-14T01:30:00.001-05:002010-10-14T03:47:03.861-05:00

So I'm in the kitchen gutting anchovies with a Bowie knife, Cayman style, when Mrs B. calls out ...  ' Hey Baldy! Did you see this headline in Cayman New Services  "Man beaten with bull’s penis" '. 'No. Sounds like a stupid bet to me though. He was bound to loose'. 'Don't be dumb! Some guy attacked some other guy with a dried bull's penis' 'Why would a guy be wearing a dried bull's penis

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-92049149769384679932010-08-23T07:00:00.006-05:002011-03-08T15:06:00.333-05:00

 CNS Headline Robber scared off with spoon "An armed robber was foiled last night by a restaurant worker who threw a spoon at the culprit after he stole money from a female customer at Liberty's Restaurant." ------------------   Obviously the police should now be armed with ladles. Depleted Uranium would be a good choice of material - plenty of heft. UPDATE:

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-67062863393801768792010-07-04T08:00:00.035-05:002010-07-05T03:21:37.736-05:00

On the passing of Desmond Seales, Editor in Chief of Cayman Net News. I try not to speak ill of the dead, not out of superstition, but because it's no challenge, like shooting fish in a barrel - in Desmond's case that would be a puffer fish surrounded by piranha. I try and avoid instant canonization of the deceased too - which avoidance in Desmond's case is also like shooting said fish in

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-33624316526848734522010-06-21T07:30:00.110-05:002010-06-21T07:30:01.434-05:00

HMS Manchester, a Type 42 Jamaican Canoe, is making an official visit to Grand Cayman. Unsure  about the terminology?  Let me break it down for you. A Jamaican Canoe is a type of boat used for drug running. They are slim, fast, open boats with two huge outboard motors and often very brightly painted. Can't imagine how they got their name. HMS Manchester is a venerable, dull grey, British

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-60742808550210829732010-05-17T08:30:00.074-05:002010-05-17T08:30:00.625-05:00

Unreliable sources, ie. not Mr Bush hisself, report that the Premier's sensitivity to criticism has hit new heights and he is to sue an "I speak Your Weight Machine" for defamation.  Apparently Premier Bush and Kurt Tibbets had a disagreement, about who weighed the most, that turned into a bet. Naturally only honour was at stake not money, because gambling is illegal here, and nothing illegal

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-40742073357075502802010-05-14T14:37:00.000-05:002010-05-14T14:37:20.518-05:00

Opening the new Legislative Assembly earlier this week Uncle Mac Bush (think Uncle Joe Stalin) praised the architects for capturing the essence of the new politics - a three ring circus housing a puppet show. The event began in spectacular fashion. An expectant crowd awaited his arrival with baited breath and some cheers were raised as his expensively customized vehicle hove into view. As it

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-61126228675042772472010-04-08T17:44:00.000-05:002010-04-08T17:44:48.873-05:00

Sooo ... is the early excitement about Dr Shetty's plan for Medical Tourism as misplaced as it was for "Dr" Syed?  The University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) has announced the appointment of Dr. Hassan Syed as its new President, following a rigorous search and selection process, which was undertaken in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Training, Employment, Youth, Sports &

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-52717577542519471302010-03-25T18:40:00.003-05:002010-03-25T18:54:52.984-05:00

Jury hung in Bodden trial CNS news article That is one strict Judge - and all because they couldn't agree a verdict. No wonder people don't want to do jury service. I wonder what happened to the defendant? Glad he wasn't on my case after I got into that fight with the nuns at the zoo. It was a mistake anyone could have made. I was standing by the penguin pool and turned around to see

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-24585472665824630052010-03-25T16:25:00.000-05:002010-03-25T16:25:42.642-05:00

My expectation of hearing 'reality' from realty people isn't that high so I was more amused than surprised to find this website  http://www.caymanluxuryproperty.com/island-lifestyle * still telling it like it isn't. "The Cayman Islands have for many years enjoyed a thriving economy with literally zero unemployment" "The cost of living may be about 20% higher here than in the United States (

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-70087519988713776942010-03-25T15:17:00.001-05:002010-03-25T15:23:08.248-05:00

MLAs grill Health Minister CNS news item Surely things haven't got that bad - have they? ... still a free lunch is a free lunch. Hands up who want extra dumplin' wit dat? [real story here]

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-67950232010206822512010-03-12T16:10:00.004-05:002010-03-25T16:39:40.488-05:00

If the national symbols were created today ... National Anthem 1. O land of offshore wheezes And verdant greenbacks fair With the Creator's glory Ripped up 'bout everywhere. O sea of lies both white and grey Merging to darkest black. Our young men heading Northward, Because of guns and crack Chorus: Once welcoming isle, set in blue Caribbean Sea, I'm leaving, leaving very soon, O dangerous

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-17995309583143597222010-02-20T18:59:00.002-05:002010-02-20T19:09:14.537-05:00

Gordon Barlow is getting steamed up at people suggesting we solve the scumbag gangsta gunmen problem by doing a little assassination of our own. I'll agree it sounds immoral on the face of it but we need an answer to this crap for the greater good because it's only going to get worse otherwise. If the latest fatal shooting, this time of a small child, don't float your boat for toying with the

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-63987110223896512552010-02-19T05:27:00.004-05:002010-02-19T05:48:22.300-05:00

An ex MLA, former Minister of Who Cares and one of Cayman's several surviving brain donor's, Charles (Chuckie) Clifford has decided enough is enough wit Mac. While he was at the Legislative Assembly trough Chuckie displayed some talent in base political skills, he could lie, equivocate, dissimulate and grandstand but overall he was out of his political depth. Backgound for those who need it:

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-75139784207429336062010-02-18T06:09:00.007-05:002010-02-18T06:39:50.396-05:00

I was glancing at the new look CayCompass when this caught my eye ... Book ban still in force Good to see that some tendril of the Civil Service brambleweed is engaged in looking out for the soul of Cayman, I thought. These are dire times: another child gunned down, this one almost a baby, by monkey-see-monkey-shoot gangstas. Still at least those wanabee bad-asses won't be able to read

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-66331504583423266122010-01-27T05:06:00.001-05:002010-01-27T06:07:03.155-05:00

"New governor taken to Northward Prison" CNS Headline. Better safe than sorry Eh?

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-2569914582114545492010-01-11T09:48:00.010-05:002010-01-11T10:22:25.492-05:00

Another Gay cruise is due to visit Cayman soon and the Cayman Islands Ministers Association is making a bigger fuss about it than Elton John choosing which earring to wear. That old chestnut (co-incidentally 'Old Chestnut' is the exact shade of Elton's hairpiece) "Is Homosexuality innate or learned?" is making the rounds again. Anyhoo ... I ended up on the phone-in with the Reverend U. R.

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-86457130916227683862009-12-14T10:00:00.000-05:002009-12-14T10:00:15.703-05:00

One of the biggest stitch-ups since Dr Frankenstein picked up a needle and thread is under way. As Finance Minister and Premier, Mac started with a good basic hand ( in numerous pies). Add to those cards one former and one present Financial Secretary that Mac had up his sleeve all the while and it's going to take big cards to beat him.  FCO bluffing with one queen in their hand isn't likely

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-2597933211314093822009-12-12T06:17:00.001-05:002009-12-12T07:32:55.868-05:00

Rumours of another CAL low flying incident were brushed aside by a CAL spokesperson earlier today. "Yah got nah proof", they said. Is that so ...

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-25440019827292971072009-11-17T09:31:00.007-05:002009-11-17T09:45:54.898-05:00

Next week is an odd one, what with there being two Thanksgiving Days - one on the 26th and another on the 27th when Mr Jack leaves. (You know I'm really gonna miss taking cheap shots at  Mr Jack once he's gone.) Here's a tip to Ezzard about the next drunken tyrant arriving to stand on his neck - one Duncan Taylor by name - Duncan Taylor is a brand of Scotch. Yes the man has an entire whisky

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-62673611883484053602009-11-05T09:21:00.003-05:002009-11-05T09:33:01.508-05:00

Sales for Governor Jacko's farewell tour haven't lived up to expectations -  according to Gerbil Cantilever, virtual unknown local event promoter,  it's been a disaster The Lions' Centre venue, which hosts most major events on Grand Cayman, has been dropped from the farewell tour - "It would have been more like the Lions' Den anyway", quipped Gerbil. "Once the Governor discovered he was

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-51126671771979878582009-11-04T19:37:00.003-05:002009-11-05T09:37:40.290-05:00

Dart to build cruise berths! What are the odds! Pope probably a Catholic!  He was saying Hail Marys, using rosary beads and everything says eyewitness. Bear excrement found at Yellowstone! We tell people, Don't feed the bears ... now this happens, fumes Ranger.

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-71651048058649758652009-11-03T05:44:00.007-05:002009-11-03T07:53:34.204-05:00

Where have all the good men gone And where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules To fight the rising odds? Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night I toss and turn and dream of what I need I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong And he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero I'm

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-33711240817097650552009-10-28T06:15:00.002-05:002009-10-28T07:29:06.687-05:00

Was it Governor Alan Scott or was it Governor Michael Gore who was 'drunk on parade' -  it had to be one or the other if Ezzard Miller, is to be believed - OK I could stop the post right there but let's humour him. Miller ...... said that he too had “experienced the arrogance, disdain and condescension of Her Majesty’s representatives in Cabinet.” He described one as coming to cabinet “in a

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-87807657357062285482009-10-26T05:50:00.000-05:002009-10-26T06:13:56.495-05:00

So much to do and so little time to do it - that's always the way when you're fixing to leave. The Governor is certainly going to be busy during his last few days in paradise.

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-69100487934031080932009-10-21T05:52:00.000-05:002009-10-21T05:52:34.289-05:00

Sorry that heading contains typos - it should read "Seales washed up in Cayman?". The travails of CNN Publisher of no fixed abode, Desmond Seales, continue as the authorities move him along from one spot to another as if he were a common vagrant. There does seem to be a coordinated effort to reduce Desmond's publishing activities to hawking a single-page xeroxed newsletter on street corners -

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-39655715246641511352009-10-16T05:35:00.010-05:002009-10-16T06:18:59.067-05:00

Since the landlord locked Cayman Net News out of their offices at the Alissta Towers building* earlier this week they have had to make do and mend to get an edition out. However, Friday rolls around and there is no Gordon Barlow column so I created an all-purpose, emergency look-alike one for people getting the heebie-jeebies, cold turkey and similar withdrawal symptoms. Have you

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-61277980148805709462009-10-12T14:34:00.002-05:002009-10-21T04:27:38.470-05:00

I can't believe I heard it right ... Bridger got $500,000 $500,000! $500,000!! He should get five years for impersonating a police officer. Jack couldn't organize an indecent assault in a whorehouse.

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-46545363712493205902009-10-09T11:55:00.001-05:002009-10-21T04:28:37.284-05:00

So come November 6th there will be another President Bush in office. Third time lucky?

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-61721713455782895692009-10-07T07:19:00.006-05:002009-10-21T04:29:38.473-05:00

"Read my lips: No - new - taxes!" Remember that? The outcome this time will be the same as it was then. Kurt and Alden have returned from the naughty step with some awkward budget questions but MacEnomics has already taken hold. MacEnomics seeks to discover and employ economic synergies that exist between the Public and Private sectors (ie. Dart and Mac respectively) freeing each to do what

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-20095025405335058742009-09-18T10:01:00.001-05:002009-09-18T13:19:09.715-05:00

Like many long suspected, Operation Tempura turned out to be a total con. The smart people on marlroad.com (and me) figured it all out in fine detail months and months ago and saw the recent Lyndon Martin trial confirm our beliefs. Tempura was worse than a waste of  money because nothing has improved and much has been damaged. It takes a big man to admit he was wrong ... so the Governor doesn't.

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-13288130961464251302009-09-10T05:48:00.005-05:002009-09-10T05:58:21.227-05:00

UK expats of a certain age will recall a long running BBC children's program known as Crackerjack! hosted in its later years  by The Krankies, a Scottish husband and wife duo Jeanette and Ian, that featured the diminutive Jeanette dressed up as naughty schoolboy "Wee Jimmy Krankie". Wee Jimmy is an anarchic, cheeky, mischievous scamp, always getting into scrapes but somehow never quite getting

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-61686184488667482372009-09-07T18:36:00.002-05:002009-09-08T03:19:02.513-05:00

According to the Compass, The Miss Cayman 2009 competition is cancelled and  Miss Cayman 2008's reign will continue. When Cayman has to make do with last years model things are getting serious. If government can't afford a new Miss Cayman can it afford its  Cash for Clunkers programs like the Governor's Salary?

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-78048517342513138562009-09-06T10:21:00.001-05:002009-10-21T04:30:18.212-05:00

See no evil. Speak no Evil. Hear no Evil. Sound advice as a rule - but you can't run a successful newspaper like that. The original three wise monkeys, from 17th century Japan, were Mizaru, who saw no evil, Kikazaru who heard no evil and Iwazaru who spoke no evil. Closer in time and nearer to home three unwise monkeys Dezzaru, Lyndzaru and Evanzaru have been getting up to monkey

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-26480757363259444872009-09-04T02:40:00.007-05:002009-09-04T04:51:00.422-05:00

Two lawyers are having lunch in a restaurant when armed robbers burst in. As the robbers start taking money and valuables from the other customers one lawyer presses something into the other's hand under the table.Without looking down, the second lawyers whispers, "What's that?""That's the $100 I owe you".That's the way the new private finance initiative is going to work for Cayman - everybody

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-11683630392850311882009-08-21T15:49:00.008-05:002009-09-04T17:01:19.583-05:00

Desperate times call for desperate measures - but there never seems to be a desperate time handy when you could use one to cut a few corners.Lacking a Reichstag to burn down Big Mac and his Small Fry's have been rubbing sticks together and blowing hard to create smoke. Financial Secretary Kenneth "Trust Me" Jefferson has provided tinder via a financial crisis in government and there is now a

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If there truly was no such thing as bad publicity we wouldn't have PR departments tagging along like pilot fish cleaning the teeth of the shark after a kill.I see PR as a necessary evil, with very little emphasis on the word necessary, so it was sweet to see government's sub-prime PR department deal cack-handedly with an issue concerning themselves.The Caymanian Compass submitted a Freedom of

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Been some criticism of McKeewa's threads over at the CNS bulletin boards ... They sayin' his suit's too baggy an' he need a new one.I know where he can import something that's a better fit - and the hat to go with it.Yessuh! He'll look the cat's pajama's taking the salute as the flag is lowered and the sun sets over 'Yes Man Central' (the building formally know as the the Legislative Assembly). .

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-82811895136188275132009-06-30T08:31:00.014-05:002009-07-26T04:49:21.216-05:00

So ... Madoff the Ponzi Pirate got 150 years for cooking the books - a smart lawyer will probably get that down to 100.If he enters an organ donor program I'd like his Gall.Word on the street is Madoff bought his accounting software at the same place the CI government bought theirs - Abacus Abe's Approximate Accounting .I was cleaning the toilets there one time and landed a job in Accounts. Gate

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Poor Ken Jefferson (Financial Secretary) is in a bit of a stew. People thinkin', "His financial forecast as good as the weather forecast. And they bad".The forecast for politics is usually windy and variable, blowing hot and cold alternately, question is: Have Ken's calculations been affected by climate change?Change in the political climate that is.Maybe there is a technical issue with the

Baldrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070115548855423576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125303125353840262.post-46771087841845575382009-06-19T06:27:00.000-05:002009-06-19T06:49:45.643-05:00

I have decided that I will not take up the role of Governor if I am formally asked to do so as I feel, like Ezzard Miller declining the job of chairing the Health Services Authority, that it would "detract away from (sic) my ambitions to serve the people ..."On the same basis I am declining to walk the dog, dry the dishes or take the trash out. Bruises will doubtless follow but my people need me

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Officer I've been robbed!OK not robbed exactly but I am the victim of attempted Identity Theft. I'm Captain Underpants, the modest superhero who can't afford a costume so I just strip down to my manly under-garb in any handy phone booth when duty calls. (That's the story I'm sticking to anyway).But what do I see in the headlines? The new UK Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for

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