Another Cabinet member on the road
(CNS): While the premier, the attorney general, the financial affairs minister and the governor are all in New York this week, the infrastructure minister is also on the road as he heads to Jamaica for a conference, officials have revealed. Joey Hew is attending the fourth annual Caribbean Infrastructure Forum (CARIF 2020) in Kingston, 21-22 January, where public sector regional players will map out the infrastructure needs, foster new relationships and introduce their projects to expertise and cash.
It is not clear which projects, if any, Hew will be touting in Jamaica but the conference agenda largely covers investment in infrastructure, financing and construction of Caribbean projects. As well as delivering an address at the opening session, Hew will serve as a panellist with other leading voices in the region o “Walking the Walk – Adoption of Sustainable Energy to Power Island Governments”.
The minister will be accompanied by Chief Officer Alan Jones, Energy Policy Coordinator Kristen Augustine and other ministry staff. Jones and Augustine will also visit the parishes of Clarendon and St James to tour New Fortress Energy’s Floating Storage Regasification Terminal and their Bogue LNG Terminal.
The audience at the event will include private and public sector decision makers, utility representatives, multilaterals and representatives across the financing space from the Caribbean and other regions. The event is organised by New Energy Events and IJGlobal, the infrastructure arm of Euromoney Institutional Investor.
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Gone to reassure Jamaica that we will build the piers to save Falmouth and restore Oasis ships to the Western Caribbean route.
Have a serious question. You morons understand that Cayman doesn’t exist in a vacuum? If our government officials don’t travel and engage on the international scene how exactly will we know what’s going on and how to get the best for us? Wait for it to be on CMR?
Have you heard of “the internet”? It’s this cool new thing where you can talk to people and reduce your carbon footprint at the same time.
So something like whatsapp chat or more like one of the online chat groups? That’s your proposal for maintaining our international profile and being up to date? SMH.
I’ll bet your in charge of the car license plate project
Nope, nice try. I don’t work for government, and I also spell correctly.
For a territory with 65000 people yeah. What, you want then to fly to Davos?
If only international meetings like this one was conducted via the internet.
Stop regurgitating rubbish, nah!
“How to get the best for us?” Are you getting paid to troll for those yahoos, or are you one of them?
Neither, I just refuse to leave my head in the sand, or wait for the other crabs to pile up so i can climb out of the bucket. But you go ahead, keep waiting, soon there will be enough to allow your exit. Hopefully.
They grooming him for Premier
Why he is a muppet for the Jamaican govt, Dart, and Alden McLaughlin?
Roy McTaggart and Tara Rivers are more qualified and have a proven track record of success compared to Joey. What has he ever done with his career and what qualifies him to lead the country? Being controlled by Dart does not make him qualified.
The Jamaicanisation of Cayman is distressing, but Jamaicanisation of our politics is downright terrifying for our future.
Tell him try so stay there.
In his defence, Joey is not in the same league as Airmiles Eric.
But when you combine their efforts, you get the same end result.
Green and Renewable Energy summarized:
— Because of you and your comfortable lives, we have global warming, poverty and everyone will burn alive if they don’t drown before. As such you should pay up the ass for less, of our clean energy and give the money to us, the moral superiors. And pray to the climate deity, the 97% so they can spare your meager existence and maybe, just maybe they will let you eat a bit of artificial meat, because we need to also destroy all farms due to methane and farting animals.
Interested to see what he could possibly add to the panel on sustainable energy seeing as how we are powered almost entirely by CUC’s dirty generator monopoly
Isn’t his brother the CEO of CUC. A slight conflict of interest?
Ok I’ll bite. Explain how this is a conflict of interest? No major negotiations between CIG and CUC have been carried out during Minister Hew’s tenure, so what conflict exactly exists?
And by the way I didn’t vote PPM last election.
Just wish he would focus on the infrastructure problem known as the DUMP right in his district.
For most of the PPM and the Unity Govt members, this is the final year when they can travel for free (to them) but on the public purse, so they making the most of it.
Come to think of it, I believe there is an Agricultural Conference in Dubai this year
Vote No
Vote no to voting no!
Vote no to those who say vote no to voting no.
Vote no to every thing that you write.
Saw MCKeeva at the airport this morning heading out too so guess he will have some company..
Oh lord, anything to continue to waste our money…
Oh yes ,Mckeeva is gone to Trinidad, take da .
Did he have his chauffeur and bodyguard with him ?
I don’t know, but he had his government credit card.
This the same minister that held an “emergency meeting” to deal with traffic?? The Minister of PLANNING!!! What joke. Ignoring the eastern districts traffic woes will serve you all well come 2021!
Build the damn road and forget about the port!!!
Seems perfectly reasonable to me
Don’t complain for the sake of complaining.
He’s a sellout. A guy who is totally in it for himself and no one else. I cannot believe that people voted to put this guy in a leadership role in our country. Twice!!
Caymanians, please stop killing this country by voting for unqualified people.
Way to go Joey! Make Cayman proud!
Just don’t mention the largest man made mountain of trash right in your district.
Blind leading the blind. We need to fire these turds before 2021. So tired of it.
@ 6.44 Obviously referring to yourself. None so blind as he who will not see.
Not as swanky as Monaco but like Minister Tara Rivers Mr. Who has air miles to earn and deals to set up with his JLP colleagues that will benefit all parties
Wouldn’t be too bad of a trip if he had ever done anything.
He’ll come back with Chinese developers, contractors, engineers and financing to fix the issues in Cayman. Not realizing that it did not work in Jamaica. When will CIG ever learn?
6.30pm Good Miss Cleo. Foretelling the future. Or making up crap.Spreading propoganda.
Maybe if he spent some time on our roads, he would get off his ass and fix the damn traffic! Oh, and that shitheap in the middle of his constituency.
The fact that his physical MLA office has had a view of bumper to bumper traffic at one of the worst constant traffic spots on island for years speaks volumes. Was also supposed to head up GT revitalisation. We see how far that has come under his direction. Useless.