Drinking and driving limit cut in change to traffic law
(CNS): An amendment to section 2 of the Traffic Act will, if passed by Parliament, reduce by around one-third the amount of alcohol people are allowed to consume before getting behind the wheel. The bill, which was published on Thursday, is expected to go before Parliament next month. Right now, drivers in the Cayman Islands are permitted to have 100 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, one of the most generous alcohol limits for drivers in the world. The amendment would cut that to 70mg of alcohol, or down from 0.1% to 0.07%.
The change would move Cayman from being one of the most lenient countries in the world for drinking and driving to being more strict than the UK (apart from Scotland), the US, Canada and Jamaica, which all have a limit of 0.08%, but still not as strict as Scotland, Ireland, Germany and France, where the limit is 0.05%, or Norway and Sweden, which have some of the lowest levels in the world at 0.02%. (See legal alcohol limits of all European countries here.)
The proposed amendment, which is open for public comment for the next month, comes in a year when Cayman has seen a record number of lives lost on local roads and a significant number of crashes caused by drunk drivers. Last year 312 people were arrested for DUI offences, an increase of 37% on 2020, and this year is shaping up to be even worse.
RCIPS Acting Superintendent Brad Ebanks, who has overall responsibility for the traffic unit, said Monday that Cayman has an alarming road safety record, fuelled by speeding and liquor. “We are seeing an alarming number of persons driving at excessive speeds and the consequences of that decision,” he said. “Speeding greatly increases your chances of being involved in a collision and makes it far more likely that the consequences of a collision will be serious or even deadly. The outcome is even more likely when you add alcohol into the mix.”
Government hopes that the cut in the legal limit for alcohol will send a signal that drunk driving is not acceptable and change the culture of tolerance towards it. A press release issued shortly after the bill was gazetted said it aimed to enhance deterrence against driving under the influence.
The bill does not increase the penalties for those convicted, which remain at a fine of $1,000 or up to six months in jail and a 12-month driving ban for a first offence. A repeat offender faces a fine of up to $2,000 or a year in jail and the loss of their licence.
Last November, Premier Wayne Panton signalled a plan to lower the driving alcohol limit to address unacceptably high road safety issues. This bill follows public discussions about improving road safety and rolling out the cut.
“The PACT Government said that we were committed to tackling the alarmingly high level of road safety issues throughout our Islands,” said Panton. “As a society, we have become too tolerant of drunk driving and too many lives have been lost. The proposed limit brings us more in line with the modern world and we will continue to implement measures to encourage more personal responsibility.”
He said a Traffic Act Review Committee has been established, which will likely lead to further amendments to the law in future. “These may include further strengthening of the provisions around driving under the influence,” the premier added.
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You could give a uk driving license holder 8 million milligrams of alcohol in the blood and they’d still be a safer driver than a sober caymanian driving license holder. It’s about skill and the test they took mainly. Indicate at roundabouts please! Use the left lane on the highway please!
…we don’t have highways jackass
no we have dual carriageways where the point still stands about using the correct, left, lane.
Highway means the road in England.
…your right because they would be on the tube or night bus cussing and causing fights over driving. A whole other classless problem
Well, at 8 million mgs of alcohol they’d be dead – so yes, not much danger on the road
Do not make these broad statements. There are bad drivers in every country. As a Caymanian I would put my driving habits up against yours any day you wish.
30-40 years ago police officers were in the clubs. They of course knew who was drunk, they could stop them immediately. Bars and clubs would have to pay officers money for their services.
If you are going out to get DRUNK stay home. Then you can throw up in your own house, floor, bed or bathrooms. Taxis charge more because of customers who are drunk and belligerent. They are not your mommies or your Daddies, they don’t pick up after you. They really don’t want to take you anyway.
A positive idea would be that Bars and clubs would provide their own transportation that they own. There could be a charge. It would have to be a vehicle they could run a high pressure hose through it, so nothing fancy. Problem solved
DUI only became an offense in Cayman in the the mid-80S.
Before that you could drink with the RCIPs at Galleon Beach and race them home……there are still some walls along the SMB / WB Rd corridor that bear the marks of some races that didn’t end with someone crossing the finish line….
A really simple solution is proper public transport but that would piss off the Taxi Mafia (who are all relatives of Govt officials) so nothing will change.
It took a private company almost 6yrs to be able to operate (Uber-esque) because the Taxi’s put up such a fuss and the private company had to add them as drivers in the end to be able to open for business…..
Reasonably priced Uber, when?
When hell freezes over
Im from BVI so I’m an expert on DUI! 😉 Seriously though in BVI almost everyone DUI’s. And not a little bit but absolutely blind drunk. It just isn’t an issue though because you just drive slow. Really slow. And if there are people around like walking pace. No worries. If you did that here though you’d for sure get pulled and prosecuted so people try and drive fast to not look drunk. Need a rule that you can’t get done for dui unless you’re doing over 20! Sorted. This isn’t Miami it’s the Caribbean… you people need to relax and slow down that’s all!
Dumbest comment of the year award 🙄
Is it? They average just 1 to 2 deaths a year on those crazy mountain roads, they drive cars in far worse state than you do, drive blind drunk and have an equally pathetic driving test. What are you at already; 12 dead this year? If what they do in BVI is so dumb, drive slow, just how dumb does that make you?
As crazy as it sounds, it’s actually true and I’m a recovered alcoholic and drug addict (8 years last Saturday). I don’t condone drink driving one bit, however I could never understand why the BVI had such a low accident rate. You will get fined for driving and using a cell phone, but drinking a Heineken and driving at the same time – no problems!!!
True though. BVI has 5 times better RTA stats than Cayman despite absolutely chronic DUI.
And yet here you are, so smart and with roads far more dangerous. Well done you.
I wonder what effect this will have on f&b industry? Getting a cab at the end of the night is such a PITA, not to mention rip off that I already CBA to go out much. If I can’t even have a couple of glasses of wine with dinner I’m just not going to bother at all. Need UBER now.
Who cares? They are also responsible for the amount of alcohol they serve patrons. So many places here still continue to drown people with alcohol when it is clear they are already blind drunk. It’s disgusting. Some of these places need to start being fined
What % of RTA’s have blown 0.07-0.1? I suspect a very tiny number and that this is just doing something to be seen to be doing something and is a total waste of time.
Seriously ignorant comment!
Limits change nothing. You need capable police and capable drivers. In other words, introduce uk level driving tests and non Jamaican police officers.
If we eliminate Jamaican police officers we would be a step ahead. They are corrupt and cover for their very own. I am waiting for a Police meeting in my district to burst the bubble on their incompetence and how well their cover up for their own.
Two solutions:
1) teach the police to drive properly
2) Uber
Give me Uber or Flex and I’ll stop.
When you die or kill someone from your disgusting ignorance better be no tears for you
With this proposed change I expect that the Government will now publish
– Number of crashed drivers testing over 0.1
– Number of crashed drivers testing between 0.07-0.1
– Number of crashed drivers testing below 0.07
As a way of showing exactly how much adhering to this new limit will help reduce crashes on the roads.
(Goodness knows we have enough DUI crashes to sample.)
Unless there is no evidence that this change in alcohol limit will make a difference in people’s ability to drive safely or not.
Another dumb comment!
block the roads every weekend after 12am going east west so everyone have to travel in one lane and have police checks. people would act different knowing that there will be a road block every single weekend.
You know there is a problem with the country when everyone is basically saying “not driving drunk and not putting peoples lives at risk is a major inconvenience for me, because I don’t have Uber, or this or that.”
If that is the level selfishness in this country we have major problems. No accountability or pride in oneself it seems. Pure selfishness.
Saw a black chevy suv still driving this past Sunday with the passenger hanging out with the door open hurling up their brunch right on to WB Road. Classic!
Why are the taxi cartel protected? Actually, while we’re on it –
why is the banking cartel protected?
CIREBA cartel?
Grocery cartel?
CUC?
Gas stations?
Why do we allow ourselves to be utterly fleeced by so few? What exactly are we scared of that stops us just saying enough and sorting everything out?
The taxis are a joke. A can here on flex from the airport to smb the same as 3 times the distance in New York or London. They should allow Uber and any residents to be drivers,
It’s happening on a world wide scale so for the most part humans are apathetic meanwhile the conniving few take full advantage.
George Town Cartel Law Firms too?
Big Four Cartel Accounting Firms too?
Do you understand what a cartel is?
CIREBA is a cartel. None of the others are.
Bless your innocence amigo….if you really don’t think price fixing and protection is rampant across industries here, i want to live in your land of Unicorns, it seems nicer
A step in the right direction, but unlikely to change anything more substantive.
Penalizing behavior that is already endemic wont prevent it from happening in the first place. We will see more convictions and fines for sure, but will we see a substantial reduction in incidence rate?
Reductions in DUI incidents require investment in public transport and/or ride sharing services. Both of which cost money and time. If alternative modes of transport exist and are readily available, people will use them.
A night out drinking shouldn’t be capped off with a $50 taxi ride. If my options are that, or rolling the dice with my car right in front of me, many will choose, and have already chosen, the gamble.
There are services that will drive your car home such as this one. Not free but better than losing your license or killing someone.
http://patriot-homesafe-primary.hgsitebuilder.com/service
Homesafe was an excellent service, but alas I dont think they are not in operation any longer.
Well said.
And that’s the taxi drivers.
The problem is not the people in the 0.07 to 0.1 range.
It is the people in the 0.1 + range.
Lowering the limit will do absolutely nothing in the absence of other measures.
Precisely. When dealing with either government and the emotional public, logic and reason is irrelevant. All that matters is the feel-good factor. Critical thinking is dead.
CIG / RCIPS would be better off enforcing what’s in place and focusing on education! This is the fundamental issue with Cayman not one person in power understand what education does to a society. Sending young Caymanians out in the world with a 6th grade educations and importing 3rd grade educated labor from Philippines, Jamaica, Honduras, Cuba and India.
Probably not so with any of those countries you listed, but in particular definitely not true with those from the Philippines and India.
Lols
Uber is the solution.
I can’t afford the taxis and they take forever anyway.
Get Uber here and lots of drunk drivers would be off the roads.
The last time I used a taxi in Cayman, the driver was drunker than I was
Uber isn’t cheaper than taxis in any city I’ve been in. They are nice, clean, and convenient, but not cheap.
Leave your car at home and enjoy your evening. Nobody has to die in your drunk cheap-ass protest of the Public Transport Unit. Drinking is supposed to be for responsible adults that can make sensible decisions about their premeditated intoxication before they head out for the evening. Uber is not free non-profit service sonny boy, ask your parents about those bills – they exist and someone pays them! If you don’t have the cash to make responsible plans, stay on your sofa.
Thing is, I might be responsible and take a cab home. The guy in the car who hits my cab isn’t so much so I’m dead anyways. Far too many alcoholics on island…sad really…really sad…
Uber pricing algorithm isn’t necessarily going to improve on taxi rates. Hire a driver for the night and they can wait outside and get everyone home. Best night ever.
What about FLEX?
Come on! Who do we need to press to get this done?
😂 good luck with that babes
As long as the police enforce it and stop letting off their friends ( or lady friends) then its a good move.
We are already paying for a police force that isn’t willing to show up to put a dent in this problem. How do we legislate them to go back to work?
Exactly. The article reads, “Government hopes that the cut in the legal limit for alcohol will send a signal that drunk driving is not acceptable and change the culture of tolerance towards it.” Yes, we’re really good at ‘sending a signal’. Might as well be the bat signal for all the difference it will make in people’s behaviour.
We need rigorous enforcement, and that means stakeouts, road blocks, arrests and prosecution. You want to send a signal? Arrest and convict 100 drivers with a BAC over the limit. THAT will send a signal, and actually do some good.
Even if you’re right, this is still a half measure. You’re trying to solve the problem after in occurs.
A more appropriate approach also involves investment in alternative public transit options.
Police aren’t capable of preventing crime, only enforcing laws after crime is committed.
They aren’t even capable of enforcing crimes. Hence all the reckless drivers on the road. Most of them aren’t even drunk but keep acting like alcohol is the problem….
This is welcomed- I hope they next focus on what the main issue is. People drive drunk because transportation is not cheap or straightforward. If it were made affordable, it wouldn’t happen. Anyway Bermuda who has one of the best public transportation systems in the world still has a drunk driving problem so what can we do. LEGALIZE IT
Legalise drunken driving? That’s your solution???
On the off chance that you’re saying legalise the herb, then I agree, however drunk driving will still be a huge problem.
Er one of best in world, no.
Yeah right, look at the politicians in office or trying to gain office who have DUIs. This won’t pass. Also, the only thing we really need is cops on the road pulling over dangerous drivers. like every damn road needs a cop stationed on it.
They could put the limit to 0 and it wouldnt make a difference.
How many officers are part of the traffic department? and how many vehicles does the RCIPS have in use? I ask because on most days, I can drive from WB to town and not cross a single police car. They are hardly on the road, except late at night and early morning when they trying make they ticket quota.
In Cayman Islands all laws are subject to non enforcement. Especially new ones. Everyone can see this and everyone knows this. Driving here is just a big game of Chicken with drivers that literally have nothing to lose.
Perfectly stated. An all-day, all-night game of chicken. Toward that end, I would like to purchase a POS rusty truck that barely passes inspection. You notice how people shun such vehicles? Yes, because it says to us, “I just don’t care. Go ahead and hit me.” Which, curiously, is a sort of armour against some of the more dangerous drivers.
Later on, after I have a fleet of POS rusty trucks, I can start a “rent-a-wreck” car rental. No need to ask if there is any damage to the car upon return — who could tell?
Someone has already done this, judging by the rental specials you see here!
I think someone beat you to it judging by all the 500,000 mile Hondas driving round West Bay with rental stickers on them!
I’m gonna go the other way and get a dirt bike. Can do what the F you like on them!
Ironically, lowering the threshold just increases the proportion of road offenders that the RCIPS aren’t showing up to catch. Keeping in mind that RCIPS mind trust still can’t figure out when Friday Happy Hours happen, Sunday Brunch schedule, or bar closing times after pay day.
This is just a way for the government to say they are ‘doing something’ about the carnage on our roads, without actually doing anything or spending any money.
As many others on here have noted this will do nothing at all to address the many causes of the problem. We need a culture change so that DUI becomes socially unacceptable, we need a viable public transport alternative, we need meaningful enforcement, and we need to address the appalling standard of driving.
So your saying we need to act more like Norwegians?
20 new buses on the way, what a “pipe dream”, will never be used, thank you Barbados for your thoughts! A total waste of money for a small Island like ours. What happened to the shuttle bus service from the cricket Oval to downtown?
Mervyn a major point is that there are no proper bu stops. With the larger buses you will not be able to overtake them when they stop. This leads to more delays.. Moreover buses stop all over the place, pedestrian crossings and sidewalks particularly by Kel Thompsons shack on North Church Street . These bus drivers should be prosecuted along with taxi drivers who do the same.
Cig needs put the cart before the horse.
Damn it! This seriously curtails my Sunday brunch sesh. I love getting blitzed on bubbles, falling into my car, driving like a ringpiece and causing chaos on the road. It’s what Sunday’s were made for.
You owned a Mustang, and like to hang out on golf courses???
No mention here of roadside drug testing. Since that was introduced in the UK thousands of impaired drivers who would previously never have been caught have received driving bans. It seems to me that right now the only way RCIPS ever determine if a driver was high as a kite is from a postmortem.
Not a chance, it would upset too many well ‘connected’ people.
Financial service providers would be in trouble then.
How about making bars and restaurants responsible if drunk people leave and drive home like in the US and other countries?
Alcoholics gonna drive on 1 drink or 6 drinks, their not responsible so make the establishments responsible.
Clearly not rocket surgery…
How can a bar possibly know if you’re driving home or getting a cab? Sounds like some BS US law never heard of it anywhere else.
It is already in the Liquor Licensing Laws that a bartender can not serve an intoxicated person, but is that enforced? Are any of the liquor laws enforced?
The absurd 2 pm Sundays for package stores is.
how about people take responsibility for themselves?
1 drink and hour isn’t over the limit. Nor would an alcoholic only drink 1. We need Uber or affordable taxis on this island for something to change.
One alcohol unit per hour (about 1shot) can be filtered by the liver in healthy men. That’s very different from one drink per hour of the size poured in Cayman. Our regular drinkers do not have healthy livers, so metabolize less efficiently. Female and adolescent livers have even less elimination capacity to work with. If you think you can have one drink per hour and be stone sober at the end of the night, then you are living on planet delusion. Buy yourself a pocket breathalyzer from Amazon and see how wrong you are.
Surrrre, Dr.
Yes, and hold grocery stores and restaurants responsible for making people fat.
Solid step in right direction … now to increase fines and improve enforcement to really bring a 1-2-3 approach to this growing scourge.
I seriously doubt this will yield the results they are hoping for. The deplorable driving in Cayman roads are a consequence of various factors. Different driving cultures, lack of common courtesy, inept people behind the wheel…etc.
You you absolute corrector mundo. Three cheers.
Check your facts. I think you will find that all of the UK does not have the same limit. Scotland has a limit lower than what is proposed for Cayman.
Maybe the limit should simply be 0mg. Then it is absolutely clear to every driver. No drinks when driving. Especially when mixed drinks are not measured in Cayman, so how does a driver have any idea of the likelihood of being over/near the limit?
CNS: I’ve checked and updated the article.
It was offensive to treat England as the UK. Worse still not to apologise for it.
CNS: It’s time to get off your fainting couch. Scotland has stricter alcohol limits than the rest of the UK. We’ve corrected the article. No one conflated England (or Wales or Northern Ireland) with the UK. Get a grip.
Cayman is the land of laws with no enforcement. Change it to zero, won’t make a difference.
Even though I agree with this, this is just putting a band aid on a open wound.
Drink driving believe it or not is a Caribbean culture issue, especially in Cayman, which those coming from other countries realise after living on the island for six months and fall into our culture.
If the government and or RCIP really think they are going to prevent the same persons who do this all the time, you’re f.. Kidding yourselfs.
CNS, when this goes into effect do a survey fro the previous couple of years and after the 1 year of this coming into effect I better there is still the same arrest rate and convictions in DUI.
How do we solve this DUI?
1) reliable bus service, not some dirty old van that overtakes in the middle lane.
2) taxis can’t charge as much for short distance run, shoot I took a cab from westin to galleria and got charged $15 on a Sunday.
3) Caymanian are proud people if you think you are going to get some of them on a bus, you have to start educating the youth from now that it’s OK to travel on a bus. Because as the saying goes “me nah leave me car in that car park overnight”.
Yes DUI it completely wrong but it’s not the only issue causing all these accidents on our roads, it’s the drivers. Speeders, etc. Back in the 80/90’s we had a proper traffic dept every morning one officer was at the top of South sound and another in the middle with their speed guns. The RCIP needs to get back to designated traffic officers say 10 in each district per shift.
Just my thoughts.
Alcoholism is an addiction issue, not a defining Caribbean trait.
All of our thoughts for last 20 years…are they listening?
You are correct with every point. Especially affordable taxis and cops with speed guns.
How many drivers have been tested to show levels between 0.07 and 0.09 in the last ten years? My guess is 2
Maybe the next morning.
What about people being influrance of drugs like herbal matter, white powder or any synthetic matter. Absolutely the worst is people using the phone ( WHATS UP) which is the worst I noticed wile being a passenger in a cab, bus or private car. The BEST drivers with out headlights, which I see encounter every night Alcohol is not the worst…. So figure….,
Where’s the plan to provide affordable and reliable public transportation? That run until 2:00 – 3:00am?
If you don’t provide people with a reasonable alternative to get home they will still drink and drive. No one is going to pay CI$60-$100 to get home after a night out.
The Flex company wanted lower rates but they are not allowed to undercut the taxi rates.
This is exactly it! A service like Flex would definitely be used! Defined rates and convenience of an app vs calling a taxi that charges whatever the hell they feel like charging.
Cartel rules
This isn’t really the main issue though is it?
The issues are:
– drivers who have never had to pass a real test
– drivers who don’t know and/or don’t care about complying with the rules of the road (tailgating, improper lane changing, excessive speeding, no use of indicators)
– drivers with cars that are not road worthy
– drivers that are already WAY over the current limit and who are not caught.
Criminalising those who are within the current limit but are otherwise not within the above is not going to deal with the epidemic on the roads.
Tailgaiting and speeding are national pastimes
And that’s the taxi drivers.
A move that was needed 20 years ago. Pass it now! However this will save us from the ones that are drunk off of their own ignorance, carelessness and stupidity.
We are now anxiously waiting to hear the Parliamentary Opposition’s liquor business lobby group start the hollering led by the group’s leader, Ex-Premier, The Honourable Sir Alden McGlaughlin pontificating from his Eastern District Sunday bar room stool as he addresses the young adult group, the Regressives.
After over a year in the Parliamentary Opposition, after their so “important” Sunday Bar Room Music Motion, we are waiting to see the next important Opposition Private Member’s Motion that Sir Alden McLaughlin will introduce in Parliament in September.
It burns us to know we pay these jokers over $15,000 per month so that they can sit on a barstool on a Sunday while the workers in the barroom are paid $1,000 per month, this is salary inequity abuse because they can.
This won’t make any difference
So sad
So typically Caymanian : pathetic
Try emulating countries that have the balls to tackle the problem
Maybe some counseling could help your unhappiness.
Nothing wrong with this change. But the solution to drunk driving is ridiculously simple.
Regular (i.e. weekly) roadblocks at Yacht drive roundabout, at eastern ave/WB road, butterfield roundabout, and hurleys roundabout. A couple strategic places in BT, NS and EE too.
That’s. All. They. Have. To. Do.
If there was a legitimate expectation that you might be stopped far, far, fewer people would take the risk and there would be a consequential result in accidents.
Somebody explain why this wouldn’t work. Please. I’m all ears.
There used to be regular checks every Fri night on the way to WB at 9pm. The drunkards knew and just avoided.
It’s not that easy though. You would need to add dedicated officers to make it work. For every suspected DUI, you lose two officers for at least an hour, possibly more if it’s the eastern districts, as the arrested person needs to be observed and then blow on the machine at Fairbanks.
It’s easy if there’s a will to make it happen, but since there’s usually a load of car crashes and domestics and general scum baggery going on, it’s actually a challenge to have several decent roadblocks. For bang for your book, one by Frank Sound dock, one by BT primary school/Shamrock and one by Foster’s WB should net plenty of fish. GT take your pick. Bear in mind that social media quickly spreads news of roadblocks, but these are all solid choke points.
The time delay with shipping DUI drivers to Fairbanks to be breathalyzed could be reduced by sending them in batches in a van, or even better, having the breathalyzer machine positioned at the road block in a trailer.
Yes, I agree, there would have to be an investment in infrastructure including personnel, but if we all agree this is a serious problem, then perhaps this is a better use of public money than a Miss Cayman Pageant, to name one easy example.
I agree that people would quickly realise that the checkpoints are there but at the end of the day they set them up pretty regularly during the December/Jan blitz and seem to net a reasonable number of people then. Also, because of the checkpoints, the people have no choice but to not drive through them. If this takes them off the road because they have to wait to sober up or until the checkpoint is gone it probably has some positive effect.
What other way is there to change the culture? Certainly the change in the legal limit won’t do much – the problem isn’t that they are catching a bunch of people blowing .8 and .9, it’s that they don’t really police it.
Not sure if this will help with the dui but my suggestion is to ensure all expat drivers go through the same process as locals to obtain drivers license. This will help with revenue and road readiness. Lately it has been more expat drivers facing the road fatalities. If on a work permit, you should not be able to own a vehicle (ok to rent or ride the bus) this helps with revenue within the economy and traffic as well which is declining by the road works (thank the lord). Also, if you have a vehicle on file and is back license or have an outstanding vehicle on file when registering a new vehicle…the old vehicle should be cleared (fees paid if necessary) before being able to register the new vehicle. Just some insight with transportation policies.
You’re really touting Cayman driving instruction? The one where they teach you how to pass the exam (and drive the exam route), not how to actually drive?
Just checking.
The Cayman license is the problem not the solution!
Hopefully this will coincide with proper public transport service and affordable efficient taxi service
Public transport. We have 20 new large buses on the way. Yet no thought has been given to bus stops. There are no proper stops on the roads. Hence when these new large buses are on the roads it will not be possible to overtake them when they stop to pick up or discharge passengers. Consecutive governments have like many other problems faced them by burying their heads in the sand.
Nobody will use them, a pipe dream!
LOL. One thing for PACT to take on drink drivers. Another for them to risk offending the taxi cartel.
Spoiler alert! The snowball never had a chance in hell.
Definitely agree.
not with current cig and civil service….
Dream on…
Nice idea. But if you want to solve the problems make caymanians take a real driving test, a drunk uk expat at 40 mph vs a drunk caymanian at 20 mph… the caymanians crash as they never passed a real test. Assuming everyone indicates to the best of their ability and keeps the speed limit that is.
You sound like a local hater.
Yes, we have some bad Caymanian drivers but to suggest that only Caymanians should take a “real” driving test is an insult. How about every damn person driving on our streets be required to take a stringent test! Some non-Caymanians arrive here on a work permit from countries with driving codes and laws that are totally different from ours. How then can their driving be accepted but Caymanians be castigated and blamed for the atrocious driving happening here? Believe me, the worst of the worst and most dangerous drivers in these islands are imported, not Caymanians. Just sayin
9:38, perhaps this fool should find out who it was, and their nationality, that almost killed someone by Burger King a few days ago. That individual was drunk as a skunk and shot out from BK, then swirled back into incoming traffic; t-boning someone else. WHO WAS SOBER and Caymanian.
Not sure that is agreed. There are great drivers (as well as bad drivers) worldwide. Can’t stereotype driving skills. However, anyone, whoever they are, need to not drink excessively and drive.
Well of all the stupid comments I have read on CNS over the years….8:09, you are by far the king of stupidity.
Troll.
Somehow I don’t think this will change anything.
We need enforcement of the existing laws, not constriction of them. Those who drink and drive don’t give a toss about the specific levels; they are going to do what they do.
WE need to create strategies for finding and prosecuting them. I suggest setting outside of various bars on weekends and observing. I don’t mind if people are given a chance to not drive and take a taxi, but I want them stopped.
This appears to be a huge problem on the Brac.
There is one (1) public bus and three (3) Taxis on the Brac. None are available after 10pm
It won’t.
It makes 100% sense…but I will not accept these new rules until Uber is allowed in Cayman…
time to protest against cig and their protection of the rip-off taxi cartel….something which is costing people their lives on the road.
If cig won’t listen…let’s petition governor and UK.
Taxi prices aren’t costing lives.
Selfish, reckless people who CHOOSE to drink and then CHOOSE to drive are solely to blame.
They can choose to pay for a taxi. They can call a friend or family member for a ride. They can choose to walk home. Or they can just not get drunk in the first place.
But They CHOOSE to drink and drive. Period.
If the taxis are too expensive, don’t go out and get wasted without a way home that doesn’t involve driving.
It’s not rocket science.
Drinking and driving isn’t the main problem. Affordable taxis are as well as UNEDUCATED and selfish drivers. Ive never been hit by a drunk person but by many idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to operate a vehicle.
Good. When does CIG begin regulating the “taxi” services like NYC does?
Also, when will Uber services begin?