Customs order restricts import of older vehicles
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government is now restricting the importation of vehicles more than seven years old. About 24,000 vehicles were imported over the last five years, and there are concerns that older vehicles are harder to maintain, cause more pollution and fall short of safety standards. The aim is to curb the number of cars on the road to reduce congestion and derelict vehicles around the islands, as well as cut the number of serious crashes.
Speaking on Radio Cayman’s For the Record on Monday, Premier Wayne Panton explained that the decision was “not made blind” and was based on data. He said that there are exceptions for buses, classic collectors or antique cars, as well as vehicles used in agriculture, engineering and industry.
Cabinet approved the Customs and Border Control (Prohibited Goods) (Amendment) Order, 2023 on 25 April, and it came into effect on 1 May. Vehicles already ordered that are over seven years old will be allowed into the country with the correct paperwork, but those ordered after 30 April that are not exempt and were built before 2016 will be refused.
The new restriction, which is not uncommon around the Caribbean, is expected to have a significant impact, given that 63% of cars imported last year were at last ten years old as the demand for cheaper cars grows.
The restriction is across the board, including commercial dealers, and not limited to work permit holders. Panton said that depending on how things work out and with the development of a more reliable and modern public transport network, further restrictions could be rolled out for work permit holders.
This is the first step of a number of solutions that the CIG is working on to tackle the traffic problem and improve safety while improving public transport, the premier said.
He accepted that building roads would not solve the traffic problem — even after the contentious situation that has developed over the East-West Arterial extension and his surprising decision last week to accept a motion in parliament to build that road without an environmental impact assessment of the stretch between Hirst Road and Lookout Gardens.
Panton said that in the short term, the government would be looking at encouraging, if not mandating, school buses for private schools and rolling out a campaign to promote car pooling and a park-and-ride system from the Eastern Districts.
“The new restriction to limit the age of cars that can be imported will help slow down the number of older cars entering our islands,” Panton said. “These older vehicles are often cheaper to purchase, but they are harder to maintain and will drive higher demand for replacement vehicles. These older vehicles end up abandoned and left for government to dispose of.”
A recent traffic study showed that on weekdays between 6am and 10am, almost 8,000 vehicles pass through the Grand Harbour roundabout, more than 80% of them during the first two hours. But a sample during the Easter school break showed that the number did not fall significantly, as people might assume, given the lighter traffic during school holidays. The premier explained that this was because the vehicles were far more evenly spread, so there was no congestion.
In a release about the new order, Customs and Border Control confirmed that the cut-off year is 2015. CBC Director Charles Clifford said the new order would be rigorously enforced. “A prohibited commodity cannot, under any circumstances, be lawfully imported into the Cayman Islands,” he said. “Importers and their agents must therefore exercise the required due diligence to avoid the consequences of attempting to import a prohibited commodity.”
Dwayne Seymour, who took over the customs portfolio when he was made minister of border control last month, said that restricting vehicle importation was not intended to target residents but to help restore the quality of life. As officials work on finding solutions for the ongoing traffic crisis, he pointed to the recent population rise.
“This significant surge in population further compounds the issue of congestion on the roads and establishes its likelihood to continue to be a growing problem,” he said.
According to the CBC, the total number of cars imported to the Cayman Islands over ten years from 2012-2022 is 39,267, with an annual average of 3,926 cars imported. However, during the last five years from 2018 to 2022, the total number of cars imported is 23,953 with an annual average of 4,790 cars imported. The average age of vehicles being imported has also increased, as shown in the table below:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||||
| Years Grouping | Total | % of Total Vehicles | Total | % of Total Vehicles | Total | % of Total Vehicles |
| 5-10 Years | 972.0 | 43% | 1,065.0 | 38% | 509.0 | 22% |
| 11-20 Years | 721.0 | 32% | 1,203.0 | 42% | 1,496.0 | 63% |
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So let me see.
1. We are not restricting car ownership.
2. We are not implementing carpooling rules.
3. We are not going to improve public transport.
4. We are not increasing the duty on high end, oversized gas guzzlers to make them more expensive to import.
5. We are not looking at staggering work hours for Civil Service employees.
6. We are not going to make changes to the Hurleys roundabout so that people coming from S.Sound after 5pm do not cause a slowdown of the main traffic coming up the arterial.
7. We are still allowing westbound traffic to use old crewe road after 5pm causing another slowdown of the traffic coming up linford Pierson heading East.
8. We are not increasing police presence to stop people using the roads behind Prospect as a workaround and entering traffic at the ontherun roundabout.
9. We are not increasing policing to deal with the people jumping lanes like frogger in the morning.
10. We are not policing the public busses who stop in the lane they are in to take on passengers without pulling off the street.
11. We are not policing the public busses who barge in and out of traffic with no care for safety or courtesy.
But we are making a policy change that will prevent poor people from getting a car, forcing them to use an inadequate and already overcrowded public transport system, but the rich folks can continue to import as many cars as they wish.
That folks is PACT thinking and policy at work! and ya say the PPM was bad???!!
Nah! All that stuff sounds like hard work. Why not just kick the poor a bit more instead? Much easier.
Always remember that all rich people think all poor people look the same.
I’d like to add one more point about the buses.
12. We are not policing the public busses who pull off right in front of the entrance/exit of a road.
And stop in the middle of pedestrian crossings.
Wayne Panton is the biggest disappoint I’ve ever seen. This is so stupid I can even begin to understand why someone would think this is a good idea.
I bought my 2001 Toyota with 51k miles back in 2015 for $4,000 (includes import fees and licensing). Today it has 172k miles on the dash. A 2016 Honda Accord with 120k miles is worth $12,000. This is down from a purchase price of ~ $32,000 brand new. I don’t know who can afford to lose $20,000 on their car in 7 years (not including interest you’d have to pay to the bank).
“and there are concerns that older vehicles are harder to maintain, cause more pollution and fall short of safety standards.” LOL. My car has broken down twice, both times the fix cost me $300. Everything else was regular maintenance. My cheap old car also has lower CO2 emissions than a brand new 2021 Kia Optima. It also has about 100g/km less CO2 emission than those Range Rovers government officials like to drive around.
Also, I paid a disposal fee when I brought in my vehicle. What happened to that? Did you use is somewhere else or take it to line your pockets?
@11:31 and what say you about those old Japanese diesel fumigating trucks.
Anyone who took a basic microeconmics 101 course can see what the implications of this will be. Kenny, maybe you can offer some cost supply and demand insight from your delaing days.
Where is the bicycle infrastructure promised from budgeted commitments stemming from the 2015 NRA Plan? Where is the rehaul of public transportation authority? PACT ignores all of the socioeconomic data, failing report cards, and reports, to apply a new discriminatory tax on those who already can least afford to reside in Cayman – they who commute the furthest, to do the hardest work, to keep the elites comfortable. That’s not just blind, it’s senseless, discriminatory, elitist, and unsustainable.
If Cayman’s dealer network aren’t trained to work on hybrid or electric cars of the last 7 years, whose technicians will service the vehicles that are being built today, and in the future? Are we to buy new cars when they break like the DEH requisitions new garbage trucks?
You can bank on a new mechanic shop tied to important people to soon come.
One possible solution to the traffic congestion during the morning/evening peak periods is to keep all heavy vehicles (trucks, back-hoes etc ) off the roads.
This morning the traffic between 7.30 – 8.00am was at a crawl because one landscaper was moving trees, followed by two cement trucks. This time should be devoted to commuters and school busses.
This move would also be more healthy for our children who, at present on their way to school have to face a gauntlet of noisy trucks belching thick, black, toxic exhaust.
And ALL school children should be on buses. That would help with traffic as well.
Including special needs school children with wheelchair requirements?
Raising all the prices on Ecaytrade as I type.
The thing I’ve never understood is why the Environmental fee has always been assessed on vehicles under a certain value. It discourages the importation of small, efficient cars. The environmental fee should be applied to vehicles over a certain age. For example – 5 years. That is a better way of assessing the impact to the environment versus the value of the vehicle. Ass backwards.
Why not a gas guzzler tax? This is to “help the environment” after all. Tax those giant trucks and SUVs not used for hauling or towing.
This country wasn’t deaigned for the giant trucks and SUVs. Parking lots are in short supply as is, and the spaces weren’t designed with these behemoths in mind.
These vehicles also have blind spots in front of the line of sight. A child or even adult could be injured or killed.
Yes exactly! These giant diesel guzzling trucks don’t get assessed the environmental fee and a small car does.
I have lost track of the amount of times that the CIG, rather than make the most logical decision, decide to do something that financially benefits a small group and penalizes almost everyone else and future generations.
You could be forgiven for thinking that there’s vested interests and influence everywhere.
So no more rental cars on the Brac then?
If only they had a process that would keep dangerous cars off the road, say like an annual inspection or something, then maybe we wouldn’t need additional arbitrary rules. Cheap cars are needed to get people around, those cheap cars are now just going to get older and more dangerous as they can’t be replaced with anything anyone can afford….
Exactly. My 20 year old Toyota is in immaculate condition and far more environment-friendly compared to the gas guzzling monsters everyone drives around these days. It’s a matter of how you care for your car not its age. Also, we are very ill equipped for electric vehicles as we have barely any charging stations around the island.
will stricter emission standards remove many of the gas guzzling, American 9 miles to the gallon monstrosities from the road as well ? the kind of vehicles favoured by our expat elite and senior cig management? would like to see if that new rule is enforced equally.
Im not getting in a small car with all these crazy drivers around me.
Pay a gas guzzlwr tax
Says the hobbit with out a car
This is a complete stitch up by the large car dealerships who cannot handle competition coupled with CIG collusion. Another Cayman Cartel is being formed in front of our eyes.
Many of these cars are small Japanese imports of 990cc, l litre, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 litre cars. Extremely fuel efficient, and not made for racing and take up reduced space on the roads. These are the cars that are affordable for young Caymanians and new arrivals to the islands.
Yet it is fine to drive large, gas guzzling American market SUV imports that are designed, from a safety and engineering point of view, to be driven on the right side of the road. A significant hazard.
If they were concerned about traffic congestion/pollution – stop the import of large SUVs not affordable cars for the ordinary citizen who cannot afford $30k + for new cars.
This is a huge shot in the arm to inflation and an increased cost of living on this island and an obvious slap in the face to competition and Caymanian consumers.
Shame on you CIG.
Bullcrap, you all wannabe Cayman QAnon’s need to grow up. It is not a sign of a educated or progressive society to attempt to turn everything into a baseless conspiracy theory.
New arrivals and “Caymanian” low income earners cannot afford one $30,000 KYD car (New cars can be bought for less) but one can find capital to import multiple cars, pay the insurance, vehicle licensing and associative business’ licensing fees to run a car rental business with said import cars. Which would equate to way over $30,000!
Limits on cars and people before anymore environmental and societal destruction.
“of AN educated”
That is a different issue (rental cars) and proves the point, completely:
CIG are not addressing the “problem” of pollution/congestion in a
targetted way, but using a blunderboss to hit a fly at 1,000 feet.
If “pollution” was the concern, reduce the number of large fuel inefficient vehicles, have CUC stop buring dirty diesel and allow us all to use solar/wind and have net metering on on bills.
But that is never going to happen.
Pick on the youngest and the most financially exposed instead but leave those who can afford the big cars off scott free.
All excellent points.
So are you saying you would import vehicles to sell to others without a grande and business license?
A) That was not said anywhere on this thread – so you are off on a complete fantasy tangent on that one.
B) That would be operating outside the requirements of the Law and could never be condoned.
How can anyone live across The Dump? Within 3 miles radius? I don’t get it.
…you obviously had a choice…others had the ever expanding dump foisted upon them…..
Another artificial inflation ruse like real estate propped up by the wealthy & prejudicial to almost everyone else 🏠🚙🏖️
This is so ill conceived. Besides the reasons already mentioned by many posters has the not so blind Wayne considered trucks used by many of the Watersports operators and small marine repair businesses still reeling from the pandemic now having to find somewhere in the neighbourhood of $70-100 (considering import & duty) for a 2016 truck to stay in business if replacing a vehicle ? All around costs are going to go through the roof 💸💸💸
A moratorium on private vehicle ownership is very much required and also making a low cost reliable 24/7 island wide Public Transportation System a NOW priority. Also, all vehicles must be right hand side driven as we drive on the left, in most countries this is the law. Increasing the driving age to 19 would possibly save lives and ease traffic conjestion issues. Good move by the Premier and eco friendly vehicles would be beneficial to fight CO’2 emissions.
As CUC burns up that diesel at record rates thanks to all of the developments! Brilliant!
And burns up high sulfur diesel to generate electricity to charge those “eco friendly” electric vehicles!
This is disgusting…Caymanians cant afford to buy property cant afford an apartment and now will not be able to afford a car…Wayne is this want for Caymanians…to watch them standing by the road in the heat and in rain waiting on a mini bus to take them to Town
Shame on you….now we know what you think of us
This government is so shortsighted that it’s an embarrassment. You think your young Caymanians can afford a car less than five years old? What about the working class individual ? What about the retired person?
You Wayne Panton and your government are just as smart as a beating stick. You are too rich and too disconnected to understand your people.
I’m tired of this government…
I am fairly up in years, reasonably sucessful in my days here. I cannot afford a car less than five years old. Guess when my old, well-maintained ‘CARnosaur’ finally gives up, I will have to either overpay minibus drivers, or risk my remaining days on a bicycle to and from the grocery store.
There are those around me who daily risk their lives on the roads; I don’t envy them as it seems dangerous enough being in a car.
We need to control the future population, and we need REAL quality public transportation. That is the only way we will ever significantly reduce traffic congestion. All other measures are band-aids, prone to peeling and being ineffective.
Coming just before the next elections: A government grant to help everyone buy a new car.
PACY strikes again! Basically they pull a new law out of a hat – give the people of this country 2 hours notice and threaten the transpiration for many people trying to earn a living and get around. Ona positive note, these jokers have not been able to enforce event the most basic laws so i highly doubt this will be any different.
There needs to be a moratorium on people attaining a driver’s license for the first time in Cayman, we’re selling dreams to other people that when it’s time for caymanians to achieve that dream they won’t because steps like this need to be taken. We’ve made so many work permit holders import these vehicles now my kids will have to tie themselves to a bank for years in order to achieve the dream of owning a car that they could afford.
I always thought the Japanese were so smart to create this process of exporting their trash to countries with light import restrictions. It’s hard to recycle and process old vehicles in an efficient and environmentally friendly way, so just export it!
Ignorance at its best. Just go and read why this market is so successful.
…attaining a driver’s license for the first time in Cayman…
1. Prohibition never works
2. 99% WPHs get DL in their home countries
3. You didn’t mention PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION in your comment. Neither did anyone else. Before taking something away you need to replace it with something- THIS IS RUDIMENTARY, ELEMENTARY, COMMON SENSE.
Does anyone know how many derelict vehicles are abandoned in peoples yards and along the various side roads on Grand Cayman? My guess would be around 3000. I’m not including boats, jet skis and containers….then it would be double that.
Ask Minister Seymour to check his relatives’ yard next to the Webster Memorial Church in Bodden Town. Appears to be a full blown junk car garage being operated there. No one in Bodden Town Gun Square area appears to be concerned. Planning Dept has their blinders on so they don’t see the mess developing all around us.
3724, not including the NRA heavy equipment dumped on the side of Crewe Road.
Not sure, but a hefty count of trashed Dodge Chargers are parked somewhere, from the RCIPS that none of them could drive competently , then we have the fire trucks ,dump trucks , plus rusted out Toyota Hilux’s from various Govt departments that didn’t last 5 years.
This is just too little too late.
Again , very reactive decision making instead of proactive and preparation planning. The island is swamped with vehicles why make this late late decision that will have absolutely no effect on our problem
Commune to the izimz Bloodz.
Carlito Marx or Mordechai Levy Ebanks……. Should we all just stop beating around the bush? Is it time now for us to…. finaly learn what a Democracy eventually turns into if you are unable to read or have a look say at the elephant in the room called ….”The Past”?!?! Pantonian March….. Init…..iated. Saluuuuuuute the state all hail…… all hail.
I love the overreactions.
If people want old, cheap cars, there’s enough legacy vehicles here for a generation.
It’s a great idea. As long as it curtails the cheapo Honda Fit rental specials. It’s basically poor people getting ripped off by individuals with enough cash to buy a fleet of 10 year old Hondas, who then cream in profit with ill maintained heaps.
This is true, but now the price of these junk cars have gone up considerably. Ten year old cars are NOT that old, I think 15 would have have been a more reasonable ago to consider.
I could care less as I will be able to afford a new car, but I do feel for others that cannot and will now have to pay alot more for an older car that will doubt be a sh1t box
Our neighbors in Cuba still running cars from the 50’s. Easy to work on and as reliable as the sun.
My imported Japanese car is a 2002 and it is in better condition than most 7 year old vehicles on island.
Perhaps a study should be done correlating the age of vehicles with accidents.
Yes. God forbid we should have emissions testing and standards. I will put my 2004 Toyota against most modern cars.
2006 Toyota, right with you on this.
Just wait for the next step… when the government says that no car older than 12 years is considered road worthy and you won’t be allowed to drive them any longer. And then in 2030 only electric vehicles will be allowed to be imported… and in 2035 no more combustible engine cars will be able to get licensed… That’s my prediction. Governments liked the power they experienced suddenly during COVID – now they have to find a new sector where they can feel powerful… and that will be the car industry.
Spot on. Suggested reading for further enlightenment: Rooster$ of the Apocalypse, by Rael Jean Isaac.
A teaser quote by Isaac: “Pseudoscience depending for its “truth” on consensus is deeply hostile to challenge.”
Good read, if a person has the grit to look at things honestly.
I agree – these are all steps in the right direction.
this is a step in the right direction and restrictions to reduce the number of cars on the road are desperately needed.
however i don’t think this will reduce traffic, only slow down the rate at which traffic worsens. i think a more effective and equitable restriction would be limiting cars to one per two people in a household (with minor exclusions).
although i realize the govt/police would probably need to upgrade their information systems to enforce this restriction. AND enforce that people aren’t driving uninsured.
Dude, they cant even enforce laws on obvious breaches of the traffic law – expecting RCIPS to enforce a limited vehicle per household law is just fantasy. And anyway, it would only apply to some people – bit like the driver of one vehicle in that fatal pedestrian accident was allowed to leave the scene without the police recording his name or his licence plate or MPs hitting immobile objects after a hard nights at “the office”.
Can’t and won’t are totally different things.
The driving test needs to be revamped. Anyone new to the Islands needs pass a driving test for a CI dr Licence (except for short term tourists etc). Many drivers have no clue how to drive in Cayman
Having a Cayman islands driving license guarantees you have no clue how to drive. I jumped a red light on my test in 2001 and still passed ,😂😂
“I’ll take ‘Things That Didn’t Happen’ for $500, Alex”
pact-bot alert on these comments….i haven’t et one person who thinks this is a good idea that will do anything to address the problems facing cayman traffic
Duhwayne Seymour. Is that the same Duhwayne Seymour that wrapped his car around a light pole, phoned a friend and never had to take a breath test? That Duhwayne Seymour?
That one. Same one that was charged with trying to supress evidence after assaulting his ex wifes lover. Same one who threatened a reporter when she asked questions about his wife apparently breaching Covid restrictions when he was the health minister. Same one making homo phobic jokes in Parliament. Same one whose business had challenges n paying its employees health insurance or paying over their pension deductions. Beautiful example of how the same rules don’t apply to everyone, and why Cayman’s political class has such a stellar reputation. Oh brave new world, that has such people in it.
just makes the cost of living here even higher. need a public transport solution in place before this is implemented.
Should put the funds earmarked for the ETH extension and related roads toward REAL public transportation. Long-term sustainable solution. Bike paths would be really progressive.
Enact a luxury tax and gas guzzler tax and fund a new first world public transport system with regualted routes and fares and proper bus stops.
There should be a Government regulator on auto services ensuring equitable rates and do sting operations on shister dealerships that massively ripped off customers and create further repairs needed on cars brought in. Lot of shady mechanics on island especially if you own a BMW.
Excellent! The price of my 10 year old cat will now sell for more than I bought it for🎉
First time I’ve ever made money on a car. Sorry poor people, you continue to get hosed here.
this will solve nothing.
can we petition the governor or the uk to end the incompetence of this government?
and replace them with more incompetents…
Awesome news! Finally CIG had some common sense.
This is a step in the right direction for sure, but in the absence of cheap personal vehicles, low income households will have to rely on Cayman’s, let’s call it spotty, public transit system.
Significant infrastructure upgrades are needed here or thousands of people unable to spend 5 digits on a personal vehicle will be left in the lurch.
In the real world, first world public transportation would be in place and a moratorium on the ban would also be in place to allow a legitimate first world public transportation system to be in use, but, alas…
Good job, Elected Officials.
At last a step in the right direction.
Sure. Too bad they didn’t add a requirement for all schools students to use busses. Otherwise, its a tax on the lower classes.
idiots….it will do nothing for traffic and yet again increases cost of living in cayman. the poorest will be hit hardest.
so much of what is said by psanton is contradictory and pure waffle. to bring in such measure without improving or even attempting to address public transport is beyond belief.
his failure is complete.
the poorest don’t need cars as they cant afford to keep them legal
The same will be said when electric cars start to fall apart. Short-sighted to say the least. smh
This is another example where shortsightedness and lack of understanding leads to poor policy decisions. Cars do not drive themselves. The obvious solution is to limit population growth until we can catch up with infrastructure development. How will new people coming to the island get around? Will they be forced to buy a $25k car immediately? I predict this legislation will be rolled back like the past few laws govt attempted to pass The Cock Law about feeding the chickens, the amendment requiring adverts for temporary work permits and now this amendment prohibiting importation of cars over 7 years old. Come on CIG we can do better than this!
Notice how the wealthy here actually despise the poverty stricken Caymanians.
Well excuse me for owning a twenty two year old truck, that I keep roadworthy and buy all the parts I need for it. Do you need a ladder to get down from that high horse?
This policy has nothing to do with owning a late model vehicle. It only speaks to attempting to import one.
Need for transportation and the cost of maintaining the transportation are too entirely different issues. The need doesnt go away because you will struggle to pay for it. You may as well say poor people shouldnt buy food because they cant afford it. How about government providing a modest priced public transport system that would remove the need to buy a cheap car? Of course, that would require some political will to cross the bus and taxi lobby, and some organisational effort, whereas just banning the cars is easy. Wont get your servers, shop staff, construction workers and gariners to work, but what the hey – they can just buy a new car, right, Marie Antoinette.
It’s not his fault
He has no idea what’s going on
But he will in the next election
Okay so we’ve finally ended the era of the “disposable vehicle”.
The question now is whether we’ll ever see anything resembling actual public transport.
You know. So the people who can’t afford brand new cars can get around on an island where safe bicycling is not a viable alternative.
Just raise the cost of living again for those struggling. All this will do is increase the prices of older cars which are the only cars that the poor and hard working can afford. It will have little effect on traffic.
The amount of abandoned vehicles is dozens, not thousands. All this will do is drive up prices for used vehicles, make life harder for the average Caymanian and the banks will just love all the new loans that people can’t afford. It will also create a new industry of importing newer accident damaged vehicles for the chop shops.
My imported Japanese car is a 2002 and it is in better condition than most 7 year old vehicles on island.
Perhaps a study should be done correlating the age of vehicles with accidents.
Yep 5:26 and my 91 year old aunt has smoked over two packs a day and drunk three quarters of a bottle of wine a day for the last 65+ years and is still alive. But she’s unusual…highly so for unknown reasons. So is your car.
And what was the purpose of the vehicle disposal fee?
Could they also pass a law that restricts vehicles that are left hand drive? I don’t know why there are so many, but given we drive on the left, we should have our driver’s side on the right. It would mean proper visibility on corners and junctions.
It is simple things that make the difference.
I have a left hand drive – I could not agree more. They are awful for visibility on roundabouts.
Agree. It would also mean headlights are correctly aligned towards the left instead of directly in the face of oncoming traffic.
Department of Vehicle Licensing should be making left hand drive cars re-align their lights to stop this issue at a basic level. They make you do this when you drive through Europe as not every country is left hand drive there. Simple things.
Like they used to before you got here…
I know, which is why I too am making this point for decades to no avail!
Na we should switch to driving on right. LHD cars are so much cheaper and only have to come from Miami, rather than all the way across oceans…
Yes, but the point is that we drive on the left and you are meant to drive on the inside. I bet it would actually help with many of the accidents on roundabouts. It wouldn’t cost that much more.
This is the stupid mentality that everyone has.
Good move, but they should have also banned Honda Fits!
And Voxy’s
And leaf blowers, but that’s for another thread.
Why?
Once again the PACT clown car was Driven by the Opposition to act. They refused to consider these kinds of actions when the opposition brought it up in December. Four months later they are finally catching up. Better late than never I guess.
Until there are limits on ownership per household the issue will persist – homes with 3+ cars usually carrying no more than 2 people are a regular occurrence on Cayman that change would only be half of the issue of course there would also need to be an adequate, reliable and cheap public transportation system that isn’t minibuses taking whatever route they so choose on the day
It would be political suicide for anyone who implemented it but I agree. Bermuda has it and it seems to work pretty well for them
Doesnt matters how many cars someone owns. Only one can be driven at a time.
If people can afford it, let it be. Soon the government will be telling you how to raise your kids.. oops. too late.
Why does it matter how many cars one owns? A person can only drive one on the road at a time.
You can only drive one car at a time
Speak for yourself.
Great news for car dealers and the wealthy that can afford new vehicles, and bad news for the lower classes who cannot afford them.
Ask any mechanic. Older vehicles are both cheaper and easier to maintain. Parts are also plentiful.
The mechanics can go back to their home countries and work on the cars there then.
This is one of the best things I’ve heard recently from this Government. I’ve been saying this for the last 5 years or more. Our beautiful Island and roads are full of these junk cars. If people can’t buy these cheap junk cars for transportation then we certainly need a reliable bus system and the people would be more open using it.
It certainly is. We are fotunate enough to have a Tesla and Ford 150 and we plan to import a Jeep Wrangler and a sports car with no impunity because we can afford to live like kings and queens in this tax free paradise.
No exception for antiques?
It literally says that there are exceptions for antiques, collectible cars etc and even for special purpose vehicles for agriculture. Read the whole thing…
Except that an antique car is not defined.
That’s deliberate, to allow for bly’s.
According to the second paragraph “He said that there are exceptions for buses, classic collectors or antique cars, as well as vehicles used in agriculture, engineering and industry.”
Nice poor tax. If you cant afford a $70,000 and up ride, you all should buy Huffys, you plebes. Money talks, BS walks.
let’s not get carried away. a new car can be purchased for 25+
Same point applies. Most of us can’t afford it.
Reading is hard
Only exceptions are for family members and lodge I’m afraid.