Dear Sir:

I have been meaning to write this letter a long-time, but never got around to it because of my busy schedule at work; now that I have the time, I think the truth must be told. CNS (Cayman News Services) you’re doing a great job reporting the latest news to us but you need to moderate your comments more carefully instead of having everyone angry at each other’s throats. We as expats are being snarled after as CNS approves the comments with no dignity.

Words do hurt and hurt is not a good thing to have. Better yet let’s throw in a punch bag for knock out rounds against war on us expatriates. From the Caymanians or CNS?

I strongly believe in my ten years of being a lawyer in Canada, now employed with a Caribbean law firm, find that comments should not include any content that is intentionally or unintentionally unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, slanderous, defamatory, or libelous.

CNS should remove comments when provided with a valid court order finding that the disputed feedback is slanderous, libelous, defamatory or otherwise illegal. Comment authors could be held legally responsible for damages to a company’s or person’s reputation if a court were to find that the remarks could damage ones reputation.

Comments should not contain any content or language that is intentionally or unintentionally profane, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Comments must not contain adult-oriented content or language.

Therefore CNS should moderate their comments more carefully before ruining people’s reputation. Instead I rather stick to old schools like Caymanian Compass or Cayman Net News.

Rocky Johnson

Editor’s note: Cayman Net News and the Compass have each agreed not to publish comments/and or letters that are not signed and/or otherwise verified. That is why we are bona fide newspapers, not weblogs.