With government, or rather our premier,
forcing the closing down of the only free over the air television
broadcast station and the only one with local televised news,
CITN/Cayman27, we are 'happy' to be able to report that once again
you can now watch local news.

The premier promised he had a solution
and he has just announced that his government station, CIGTV, will
now carry local news. Actually, the wording from the premier's Press
Release says it is “community based news content”.

What precisely does that mean?

Now that the Compass does not carry any
Editorials since the departure of David Legge, who once feared for
his life and left our peaceful islands in a hurry, a few years ago,
after upsetting our premier, all is now forgiven.

The Cayman Islands Government TV
(CIGTV) has come to an agreement with the Cayman Compass to share
community based news content.

Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin said “I’m
very happy that an agreement has been reached with the Cayman
Compass.

“The agreement enables CIGTV and
Compass Media to create and promote a sense of community, providing
access for more people to community news through print, broadcast and
digital platforms.”

Isn't that nice?

Cayman Compass publisher Kathleen
Capetta said: “We are thrilled to be working collaboratively with
the Government to bring important independent community news to a
wider audience.”

Donna Bush (who once worked as News Director and Anchor at CITN/Cayman27) and is now CIGTV News Director, is excited at the new venture and said it will enable us (CIGTV) “to bring even more community based content to our viewers”.

And all of this is not going to cost us one bit. “Whilst it is a positive effort to fill a media void in terms of community content, Government is not subsidising or paying for any of the content."

The release did not mention CITN/Cayman27 by Name. It just said “the recent closure of a local television station.”

Hush! Shhush!! Marl Road gossip? I really do believe they are referring to CITN/Cayman 27.

I hope I am quickly sent a note by all
the above parties correcting my assumption if I am wrong.

You can find out how to access CIGTV by
reading the release that we have published today under the title
“CIGTV collaborates with Compass to share their content”.

We can all go down to “Peppers” next Friday and Saturday night and 'swing our engines' to the community based musical content that they share down there, on the West Bay Road, to show our delight at this welcome news.

The content-sharing arrangement with
Compass will begin on Monday 7th October. The release didn't say
exactly at what time of the day/ evening or night.... better tune in
all day. You don't want to miss this community based news show.