Dear editor,
Christina Rowlandson’s letter questions whether another entity should have a role to match the challenge posed by Mount Trashmore. I think there is such a role. She notes how Cayman responded to the damage caused by Hurricane Ivan by creating the CINRF to assist with re-housing. The challenge Mount Trashmore poses is greater because the political-government-social system has to solve a problem of its own making. So far, it has failed to do so, but a different mindset can rise above waste management as usual.
I suggest a public-private-project-charter to rise above the challenge. The project charter would include our shared purpose and overall outcomes and agreement on how all key stakeholders will be included so that the required outcomes can be achieved. I see the participants as including the deputy governor, the minister, the leader of the opposition and a representative from the failed ReGen project.
Even agreeing on those core elements would be a step forward in building both trust and momentum. Presented to the community in a united way, it would signal to them that progress is possible. It would also enable next steps such as setting up an oversight working group, defining the critical requirements that must be dealt with for national outcomes and a process for understanding and addressing each of them. An agreed strategy, project plan and implementation would follow as a natural consequence, without the need for total agreement today.
It’s time to rise above how we have always thrown away what we don’t want and treat this disaster in slow motion.
Jeremy M Kidner
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