LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Your editorial should not have been made public

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Dear Sir:

This editorial (Are we coming apart? - Part One) should not have been made public.

As a journalist who visits one or two times each year to Grand Cayman, I do not believe that these observations should reach the vacationer. Cruise people and travel agents will pause in their desire to visit the Island.

Many on reading or seeing this view of the present conditions may prefer to stay aboard their ship rather than be exposed to your problems.

Stanley Shotz

Editor’s note: We are surprised that anyone that professes to be a journalist would advance such a point of view. We are in the business of reporting and commenting on the facts and ignoring, or even worse, trying to cover up those facts is, in our opinion, the height of stupidity. Short-sighted attitudes of this nature were on display last year when the Cayman Islands Tourism Association took exception to a front page picture we carried of an armed police officer patrolling the streets of George Town. However, by far the greater weight of public opinion in the Cayman Islands is that such facts and issues must be aired and faced if they are ever to be dealt with successfully.

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