Topic: Hell

The desperate need for affordable homes in the Cayman Islands led to environmental concerns being dismissed during a recent meeting of the Central Planning Authority.

“Unique landscape” that was earmarked as a possible tourist attraction may be lost forever if the Central Planning Authority allows a residential development to be built over it.

The Cayman Islands government now owns a little piece of Hell. Lands Minister Juliana O’Connor-Connolly informed the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday afternoon that a section of the Hell formation in West Bay was among 16 plots of land acquired by the government in the past year.

We (obviously) haven’t read the new five-year tourism plan being developed by Cayman Islands government consultants, but, as we reported in Monday’s newspaper, part of the report will examine ways to lure tourists away from the country’s three most popular attractions – Seven Mile Beach, Stingray City and the Cayman Turtle Centre – each of which draws more than 1 million visitors annually, and spread them out to other venues, such as Hell, Pedro St. James and the Queen Elizabeth II Royal Botanic Park, each of which attracts some 20,000 visitors per year.

Registration is now open for the To Hell and Back 10K Run/Walk on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 7 a.m. There is no race day registration. The race starts at Raleigh Quay Road, next to the Kimpton Seafire resort, and ends at Calico Jack’s on Seven Mile Public Beach.

An electric-vehicle charging station will open at the Kaibo Restaurant and Marina later this month, followed by similar facilities at the new Barcam Esso station near Lantern Point, at the Westin resort and at West Bay’s Hell.

With Grand Cayman’s only male prison bursting at the seams, Mr. Hydes believes it could be time to rethink Cayman’s crime-and-punishment approach.