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Monday,  November 7, 2005

• Two wrongs don’t make a right
  Excellent editorial! This should be published again.
  - Sean Major-Campbell
  
   
• Trying to locate Tom DeWitt
  Many, many years ago, Tom made a ring for my sisters and I. My Grandma Dewitt ordered them from Tom. He may have been in high school yet. I am 59 yrs old and still wear it and not a day goes by that someone remarks how nice it is. I work as a sales clerk at Walgreen’s and everyone notices it. Just wanted to let him know. Thanks.
  - Barb (Claflin) Wiesner
  
   
• The Church and Homosexuality
  Wow, some very interesting perspectives. Thank you.
  - Ed Kane
  
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• Terrorism
  Excuse me Mr. Winstanley Brown but the reality of 9/11, the bombings in Spain, bombings in Bali and others are causes to panic about terrorism. You and others are living in your la la land of fantasy about militant Muslims and Al Qaeda.
  - Susan Smith
  
   
• So this is zero tolerance
  Do you remember the police saying they wanted the cars for sale cleared from West Bay Road? The cars vanished for a couple of days and now they’re all back again! Did anyone get fined/prosecuted? Have you ever seen police placing ‘move, or else’ notes on the cars? Not a day goes by without me witnessing speeding and light jumping. Is there any respect for the law?
  - Dave Stephenson
  
   
• Expert and author revisits the Islands to update Cayman Flora
  Nice to read and see something of my Uncle George. Happy 85th! Cheers from Massachusetts.
  - Nancy Proctor
  
   
• Kids in traffic danger
  A speed bump would correct the problem quickly and safely and would not require any civil servant from having to make a decision.
  - Steve B
  
   
• Spirit challenges Cayman Airways
  Off season rate from Tampa to Cayman and back.... $525 beginning of November. Kind of high for off season.
  - Miriam Bodden
  
   
• Cayman would not be a better or safer place with firearms
  England, a gun control utopia, has recently been listed as a crime capital of the world (UN report). The United States, which has more firearms than at any time in history, has less crime than England. Crime drops every year in the US and sky-rockets in England and Australia. Switzerland, which mandates gun ownership for the defense of their land, has the least crime of all. Interesting how that works. Geraint Jones’ “feelings” are not based in, or supported by, fact.
  - Andrew Sundberg
  
   
• Missing you Cayman
  What you have stated so well is what we are hearing from online publications, some friends on Island and some friends who have left. Admittedly this is from afar, but it appears that Government lost control some time ago after Ivan (possibly aided by cronyism, if not corruption) and does not know yet how to regain it. We came to Grand Cayman from 1988 through 2003 and we will not be back until that control is positively restored. 
  Thanks 
  - Bill and Lynn Fravel
  
   
• No guns for police says Commissioner
  (Re: doing the math...) i.e., If Merseyside population is 1.3 million and Cayman is around 40,000, your math is off by a decimal point. That would make Merseyside 30 times larger, not 3 times larger in population.
  - Kim Genereux
  
   
• Rarely-seen visitor lands in South Sound
  Melinda Robertson is my first-born and has been bringing home strays all her life - witness her husband Ian at Scotia Bank! Their daughters seem to be ‘in the swim of things’ in Cayman - their son Hunter, it seems, prefers to be ‘on top of the wave’! Your article on Mr Peabody merely re-establishes my views that all of my family are ‘rare birds’. Well done Dr. Bush and Teresa Stad.
  - Bob Bradshaw
  
   
• C&W blocks Skype in Caribbean region
  MuniWireless, a wireless advocacy group in the US, reports that CW is blocking Skype in its Caribbean region (http://muniwireless.com/applications/888). This action is not inconsistent with the terms of CW’s tariffs, but is nevertheless an issue many consumers may be aware of. I bring to your attention in the hopes that you will share it with your readers.
  - David E. Burnstein, Ph.D.
  
   
• Town closed down
  Loved the story! Especially since my best friend moved to George Town from Spokane, Washington in the States. I now know she was spared any great disaster. Thank you.
  - Carol Vorpahl
  
  

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