CRITICIZE SOCCER CORRUPTION IN YOUR NATIVE COUNTRY, AND THIS HAPPENS: Legislators vote to pull Compass advertising. “Legislators voted on Monday to pull Government advertising and cease any commercial activity with the Cayman Compass newspaper in response to an editorial which Premier Alden McLaughlin has described as ‘treasonous.’ The premier again condemned the editorial about corruption in the territory, published Wednesday, June 3, saying it was a ‘full frontal assault on the Cayman Islands and its people’ as he gave his support to economic sanctions against the newspaper. Following the premier’s accusations on Friday, Mr. Legge and his wife, co-publisher Vicki Legge, were placed under police protection and left the island temporarily. . . . Mr. McLean’s relationship with the newspaper has been strained since last year when he was the subject of news stories and editorials that revealed that he had used his government credit card to buy a diamond-studded ladies watch. Mr. McLean, who defended himself at the time by producing receipts to show he had paid the money back, said his bringing the motion was not personal and denied that it was an effort to suppress freedom of the press.”

One of the attractions of Cayman has always been that it seemed very first-world and civilized. This, not so much. Here’s an earlier article from the New York Times.