Cayman’s radio waves were filled yesterday with people debating the virtues or pitfalls of the government’s deal with the Dart Group, now that the first element of that deal – the extension of the Esterley Tibbetts Highway to West Bay – has broken ground.
No one can really deny that the long-planned extension is needed.
No one can really deny that the government can’t afford the estimated US$33 million to extend the road right now, or any time in the foreseeable future for that matter.
No one can really deny that there are a lot of Caymanians out of work now, and that the highway extension will create jobs, not only in the construction of the road, but also with the future projects the roadworks will facilitate, like the renovation, expansion and reopening of the former Courtyard Marriott Hotel.
No one can deny that the Dart Group has an impeccable record of delivering what it promises, and delivering first-class products, as is evidenced by Camana Bay, five public parks and attractive renovations of the old Anchorage Centre and West Wind Building in central George Town, just to name some.
No one can deny that when the recent financial crisis was at its worst, when a record number of Americans were out of work, and when construction activity here had virtually come to a halt, it was the activity at Camana Bay that gave Cayman’s economy a pulse.
No one can deny either that the Dart Group has also proved to be one Cayman’s most generous benefactors ever, having given more than US$5.5 million since 2000, with recipients including many of Cayman’s youth, educational and cultural entities.
Yet despite the group’s track record, despite all it has given and despite all it has meant to this country’s economy, there are those here who despise the Dart Group and would gladly run them out of town, while at the same time complaining about the lack of economic activity here.
Premier McKeeva Bush is not one of those people. On Tuesday he said we should pray for the Dart Family and that they don’t pull up stakes and move from Cayman. We totally agree with him.
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The leader of the UDP continue to love and cherish the rich and elite. When is the word Enough going to become a part of his vocabulary and Mr. Dart’s vocabulary? Yes Enough of buying land. All of our land. Caymanians need to STOP selling their land to Dart and other foreigners. You should be buying not selling. Selling makes you a slave, buying makes you a powerful owner. So stop this madness. Some of you are selling your land your inheritance to foreigners who build structures to house and employ their foreign friends and close the door on you and your children when YOU apply for a job there! yes you who sold them the property this is a reality check..
No where in Mr.Bush’s two years in office has he shown sympathy for the missing women in this country, nor is he making any attempt to fight crime, nor has the UDP put people back to work! It’s too late I’m afraid, there is still no confidence in this UDP government, we are not at all hood-winked by any of these two phony political parties. Crimes are not being solved, criminals, I mean murderers walking free weekly from our courts, speaks volumes for what has happened to the people of the Cayman Islands since this UDP government took office. Times are very dangerous, the governor has a body guard, McKeeva Bush has a body guard Juliana O’Connor has a body guard, the Commissioner of police has his own body guard and weapon to protect himself, Dart has a special body guard force to protect him stronger than President Obama! Who gave him special permission over our people to protect himself?! so who the hell dos the writer of this letter think he or she is talking to? Is Dart more important than any of us?
The people have nothing, they have already lost their jobs to work permit holders that McKeeva Bush invited here to work, Caymanians by birth have already lost their jobs to status holders preferred in the work place because they are not Caymanian born still foreign with a foreign mentality and anti-Caymanian attitude. Mr. Bush plans is apparently geared towards devastating the people of the Cayman Islands even all the more by lobbying and advocating for Mr. Dart to purchase every square inch of the Cayman Islands and despite hiring one or two Caymanians Dart will have to staff his humungous businesses with thousands of foreign labor on work permits, scaring us out of our identity all over again. The Shetty hospital will influx immigration to a level that will not only scare the natives, but also wipe out our true identity and destroy the foundation and fabric of our infra structure.
I do not apologize for my speaking my mind but the Premier has lost it, he is 100% concerned about the rich and not at all concerned about the little people, this he has proven time and time again. If he cared the least that he could do for us is, he would force the governor’s hand to hire a Top Notch Commissioner of Police that is qualified to fight and subdue crime in the Cayman Islands to keep us safe again, and he would stop trying to enforce policies that INVITE THE WHOLE WORLD here to the Cayman Islands just to invite dangerous criminals with NO FINGERPRINTING facilitation only to terrorize, depress, oppress and defy living and enjoying ourselves as true Caymanians in our own country The UDP is a failure.The UDP will go down in history as the Political Party that destroyed the beautiful Cayman Isle where Caymanians are running scared of criminals who now run the country and are FREED as soon as they hit the courts. The course of Public Justice is perverted like never before.
A word of advice to Mr. Steve McField, Instead of publishing a letter in the Cayman Net News about asking for the constitution to be amended to give a dictator more power and the governor less power, I suggest you try to join the rest of us in our quest to have him resign or be ousted, as we cannot take two more years of this type of biased UDP leadership that seeks to serve only the rich and the elite while the people continue to suffer and held hostage by criminals.
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