The majority of respondents – 52.5 percent – to last week’s caymancompass.com online poll would give the People’s Progressive Movement a poor or terrible grade for the first 15 months of its administration.
Of the 415 total respondents, the largest segment – 144 or 34.7 percent – gave the PPM a “poor” grade, while another 74 – 17.8 percent – gave the Progressives a “terrible” grade.
By comparison, only 20.5 percent of the respondents gave the PPM grades of “good” or “excellent.”
Those who ranked the party “poor” made the most comments.
“It is a booklet with pretty pictures,” said one person. “Where are the solutions to address unemployment, the high costs of living, crime prevention strategies, dealing with a bloated and inefficient civil service? Instead we are witnessing the demise of Cayman and no one seems willing to tackle the issues head on.”
“The Progressives are more like The Regressives and are killing the economy with their immigration policies,” said another.
One respondent saw it the other way around. “They’re allowing foreign nationals more freedom to access jobs.”
“Lots of talk but little action,” noted another person. “They rejected the Dart dump deal because they ‘already had alternative solutions,’ so why have they launched yet another task force to come up with a solution over five years? Or were they just lying to the electorate?”
“Too many hidden agendas!“ said one respondent.
“I haven’t seen one thing good come out of this administration since the election,” someone else said. “All smoke and mirrors as usual.”
Those who answered “terrible” only left a few comments.
“Daylight savings is all they can propose? Chuh!” said one person.
“They have failed in all aspects of the job,” said someone else.
“The only thing that has changed is that the dump has gotten bigger,” said another respondent.
Another large segment of respondents – 112 people or 27 percent – said the Progressives have done a “fair” job so far.
“I realize the PPM had a tremendous amount of work to get us on good footing after the mess that was left by the previous administrations,” said one person. “However, more recently they have lost focus and have not been able to prioritize.”
“They do not seem to pay much attention to the persons who voted them in,” said someone else. “Far too many people are in dire financial need and continue to be without jobs. The 2 percent reduction in duties is not worth a drop in the bucket. The prices have gone up, not gone down!”
“They’re not living up to things they said when campaigning,” said another respondent.
“Good progress in some areas, but still no progress on the landfill,” said one person.
“Dump – just talk. Airport – nothing yet. Employment – the NWDA is a good effort. The Port – tendering again?. OMOV – flip-flopping until now,” said someone else.
Sixty-five people – 15.7 percent – gave the Progressives a “good” grade.
“They are doing a lot that the public is not aware of,” said one person.
“Steady progress through their goals,” commented another. Only 20 respondents – 4.8 percent – said they would give the PPM an “excellent” grade.
“The Minister of Finance deserves high praise,” said one person.
Although the grades weren’t good for the PPM, they were better than those given in a similar Compass online poll in May 2010, one year after the United Democratic Party took office.
In that poll, 61.3 percent gave the UDP a “poor” or “failing” grade for the first year of its administration, and only 16.9 percent gave the party at “good” or “excellent” grade.
Next week’s poll question
How much has the increase in crime affected the way you live on Grand Cayman?
- Not at all (explain why not)
- A little (explain how)
- Quite a bit (explain how)
- Tremendously (explain how)
- I don’t live on Grand Cayman
To participate in this poll, visit caymancompass.com.
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