For a brief moment, on first reading your article in the 19th April edition, I did hold out some small hope that it had been accidentally printed 18 days after its intended publication date.
In the event, I am dismayed to find that a misguided mason has been allowed to dump some concrete blocks in the waters off the Brac for the Atlantis project.
Surely Ivan cast enough rubbish into our waters that we do not need to add to the mess.
At this point in time, Cayman Brac is probably in the best shape it has ever been in.
The Brackers clearly take a great deal of pride in their island and must be commended for this.
The Brac is clean and the houses and yards are for the most part well kept.
It is the only island that still has a significant number of lovely old homes in the traditional Caymanian style and real efforts have been made to maintain many of these in a pristine and original state.
The nature trails are wonderful, as are the new Christopher Columbus Park on the bluff and the charming and excellent Pioneer Bakery.
The island that time forgot, but with a better infrastructure.
There is a market for this type of holiday destination and it is an upscale market; a market that doesn’t want theme parks, crowds and traffic jams and certainly does not want to stay in foam clad monoliths.
The best way to attract this market is to ensure that the charm of the Brac is not messed up by overdevelopment and just plain bad development, and not by tricking up the underwater scenery with misguided notions of art.
Andrew Reid
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