As a 16-year-old Caymanian, every day it seems as if another apartment complex or business plaza is going up.
Cayman is losing more and more of its natural landscape (i.e. mangroves) every day. So why isn’t anyone doing anything to try and stop it?
It seems as if we are losing more and more of the Cayman culture as we expand and try to compete with First World countries for worldwide financial rankings. Cayman, as we expand and build, must also find ways to integrate our culture whilst doing so.
If I were a foreigner from, say, the U.S., the last thing I would want to see is a million concrete structures as far as the eye can see while on vacation.
The public needs to leave the apathy at home and start caring about what is actually going on in our home country.
The whole idea of putting a road through the Ironwood Forest behind UCCI is absolutely insane. Is this road really going to alleviate any traffic?
Obviously, if travelling from the Eastern districts it is frustrating trying to get into George Town on weekday mornings. I guess it’s safe to say that the new highway that caused a large number of mangroves to be cut down in the vicinity of Spotts/Prospect is not that affective during the morning commute to work. After all, if it was, there wouldn’t be people calling in on local radio stations so called, traffic-spotting now would there? So, how do we know that this road will do what it’s supposed to?
Although the issue of placing a road through the Ironwood forest was brought about before Hurricane Ivan, we have lost many trees and indigenous plants since then, so why go and destroy more of what little there is left? The Ironwood tree alone should be protected for it is only here in the world that it grows to be so dense because the soil has little nutrients; hence, it was used in early Caymanian ship building.
The young people of this country should do what they can and jump on board because we need to conserve what we can for future generations to come if no one else will do it. This generation may be very materialistic, but that doesn’t mean we need to be totally oblivious about the fact that environmental and living conditions are worsening.
In order for there to be a significant difference, we need to work together and become ambassadors for our country’s well-being.
Brittanni Seymour
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