Imagine my surprise this morning when reading the FRONT PAGE of the newspaper, above the fold an article entitled "Rollover numbers queried" In it, the Leader of the Opposition was MIS-quoted as saying:

"Mr. Bush said he is already seeing small businesses shutting their doors.

“It’s across the board,” he said. “It’s small contractors, landscapers, boutiques and corner mom and pot stores.”

Did he just say mom and pot stores? OH NO HE DIDN'T! More than likely it's a typo by the newspaper, so I checked their online edition. The paper was printed yesterday, so surely someone's seen the type and called it in... nope. It's "mom and pot stores" on their website as well. I'm sure it will be corrected soon enough but not before a lot of people see this.

This is a perfect example of why you shouldn't blindly rely on a spell-checker and should instead use your own Mk-I eyeballs and have some friggin writing skills if you're going to work for a newspaper! Especially one that holds itself up as a beacon of journalism in the Cayman Islands when comparing itself to the other newspaper on the island.

Is it any wonder why they're referred to as the Caymanian Compost and the Cayman Not News?