Home Topics Jackie Doak

Topic: Jackie Doak

Compass TV: The legacy, the launch and its long-term plans

On the morning of Monday, 31 March 2025, something completely new was about to be broadcast for the very first time. As the clock ticked the seconds down to 7am, viewers got their first-ever glimpse of Compass TV

Congratulations to Compass Media from Jackie Doak

My journey to Dart began with a newspaper article I read in the Caymanian Compass in 2001. It told the story of Dart: a company...

Dart acquires second hotel in Anguilla

Dart’s footprint in the wider Caribbean got bigger on Friday, with the announcement the group has purchased a second luxury resort in Anguilla.
The Compass Centre

Compass team grows and plans streaming content expansion

Compass Media is growing its team and enhancing its digital content offering with a new video production strategy that will include the expanded delivery of streaming content on new multimedia platforms. The investment in enhanced video production and programming comes as part of a wider expansion in other areas of Compass Media, including new additions to the newsroom and expanded footprint in radio. It will allow the media house to connect with audiences on any platform at any time, in all three Cayman Islands and across the world.
Brown pelicans congregate in the mangrove fringed waters off Barkers. - Photo: Taneos Ramsay

Dart pledges to conserve an ‘acre for acre’

The Dart group has pledged to conserve an acre of natural habitat for every acre it develops in the Cayman Islands in future.

Dart executive calls for environmental management plan

Dart's president of business development Jackie Doak made the the case for a national Environmental Management Framework to “provide clear guidance on how land can be developed, managed and protected” in the future.

Dart to buy Brac luxury hotel

Dart is in the process of finalizing the purchase of the Cayman Brac luxury hotel Le Soleil D’Or, Dart Real Estate Business Development President Jackie Doak said at Thursday’s Chamber of Commerce legislative luncheon.

Dart tunnel extension approved

The Dart group’s plans to extend the new West Bay Road underpass have been approved at the second attempt – paving the way for a five-star hotel project that could bridge the road.

EDITORIAL: Planning for – and embracing – a trajectory of growth

When talk turns to development, most people immediately think of its physical manifestations – new buildings, landscaping, or associated amenities.

Camana Bay celebrates a decade of development

A decade of Camana Bay has wrought major changes in the Cayman Islands, and the pace is unlikely to slow in the next 10 years.

Planning statistics show ‘explosion’ in development

Grand Cayman is in the midst of an unprecedented development boom, with more high value planning applications approved in 2017 than ever before.

Dart applies to extend planned West Bay underpass

Dart Real Estate has submitted an application to the Cayman Islands Department of Planning to extend the underpass it is planning to build on West Bay Road.
Cayman Compass is the Cayman Islands' most trusted news website. We provide you with the latest breaking news from the Cayman Islands, as well as other parts of the Caribbean.

Dart purchases Royal Palms site

Dart Real Estate announced this weekend that it has purchased the site occupied by the Royal Palms Beach Club. “We are pleased to announce this addition to our portfolio,” Dart Real Estate President Jackie Doak said.

3-lane roundabout, underpass open Monday

A new three-lane roundabout and underpass next to Camana Bay will open Monday, Dart Real Estate has announced.

Hailed as ‘jewel’ of tourism sector, Kimpton opens doors

Immediately hailed as a “new jewel” of Grand Cayman’s tourism industry, the Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa, opened for guests on Tuesday. The 266-room hotel has been four years in the making.

Dart plans next phase of Camana Bay expansion

Developer Dart Real Estate has submitted a planning application for an underpass along West Bay Road, the next phase of its ambitious plan to expand Camana Bay and create “sea-to-sound” connectivity between the Town Centre and Seven Mile Beach. A first underpass for the re-routed Esterley Tibbetts Highway has already been built.

This week