15 constituencies face boundary changes
(CNS) The Electoral Boundary Commission has announced that there will be three public meetings next week where the proposed constituency boundaries will be revealed following several months of work. The three-member team will also provide insight into how the new boundaries impacting 15 of the 19 constituencies in the Cayman Islands were decided on.
In an official release, the EBC said that 15 seats are affected by the proposed boundary changes due to population growth experienced over the last eight years, with Bodden Town and George Town being impacted the most.
While the commission has not yet given any details about the new constituencies, there was no indication that the final recommendations include a proposal to merge East End and North Side or change the two Sister Islands constituencies. However, it is still possible that the EBC is recommending an additional seat in Bodden Town.
It is common for single-member constituencies to be reviewed when population numbers change. Bodden Town, in particular, has seen significant growth since the election system was changed to ‘one man, one vote’ in single-member seats. The district is still growing and is expected to continue to grow, given the rising price of land in West Bay and George Town.
The public is urged to attend at least one of the three meetings:
- West Bay: Tuesday, 4 July, at the Sir John A Cumber Primary School Hall.
- George Town: Wednesday, 5 July, at the GT Public Library
- Bodden Town: Thursday, 6 July, at the BT Primary School.
All meetings start at 7pm and will also be available via Zoom and on the Cayman Islands Elections Office Facebook page.
Zoom meeting link https://gov-ky.zoom.us/j/85198614920, meeting ID: 851 9861 4920.
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Do away with the one man one vote system. It clearly isn’t working!
Those who were part of implementing the system have publicly stated recently they regret the change.
What possible difference could it make to any of us – the people??? Seriously posed question.
Can we sue Mackeeva for the status grants ?
Get over it. The UK required him to create a legitimate pathway to citizenship. It was 20 years ago, and tens of thousands of new legit voters ago. Times change, the population has more than tripled. Voter registration is 4x or 5x. It would be interesting to get immigration and death records on how many of those few thousand Cabinet grants are even still here, and/or alive, or in the court records as so many decry without support.
11.57am Few thousand turned into 15,000 and is the gift that keeps on giving. that’s why our population has quadrupled. They and their relatives are all still here and one cannot get elected without pandering to them.
Stop blaming the UK. The status grants by cabinet were not required, and were an affront to any concept of good governance.
Yes. We can seek his prosecution too, if we have any evidence of corruption. All we have to do is identify people who were not long established residents of Cayman.
The elections.ky website has proposed boundary commission adjustment maps from 2015. Where are the 2023 proposal maps for review? What are these dinner/family time meetings for, if the commission has already decided what they are going to do without public consultation?
The cart is always before the horse. The Commissioners should not be a person who is a member of a party or someone involved in politics as the Commission now is.
one thing for sure.
we’re gong to need a bigger trough.
Direct rule is really the only answer to this cluster.
Mickey mouse wears a Cayman Islands wristwatch…..zzzzzz
7:19 stated it perfectly.
The whole system needs to be changed. The people
should have a say in any proposed changes
The people’s “say” will be ignored by politicians whose interests lie in the Bodden Town area ,and whose long term focus is to dominate Cayman with a certain demographic voting majority.
The Britannia/Camana Bay area should become a constituency , to balance the Bodden town bloc.
You know you can say Jamaicans right?
Unless you are merging EE & NS as well as CBE & CBW&LC then it’s a total waste of time.
9 constituencies are more than sufficient.
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Its crazy for us to have 19 MPs. We need less not more. In most countries There are hundreds of thousands of people for each MP not a few thousand or less.
When Bodden Town had two members more was done in the district. Now, that there is four, nothing has been done in BTE. Scrap the One man One vote and return to what served us best.
Constituencies has created unnecessary expenditure and less concern for the citizens, while concentrating and providing for the new/ paper caymanians. Use the funds for the fifth constituency to clean up the eyesores in the district, which the politician is obviously blind to..
I can’t believe that it takes 4 MPs to administer the needs of a small Jamaican village .
This is such an obvious political grab what you can plot, to enrich a few unemployable wannabes….and all at the expense of those of us who actually work and contribute .
Amen!!! Especially with the salary they’re earning, less would surely be better. We can’t afford another MP!
I agree fully.
The problem is not one-person-one vote, it is trying to appease the only ones who want to see more constituencies or seats (politicians).
The commissioners should take their direction from the people, not the politicians. We own the ‘league’; they only get to be ‘players’ in it. And they are inherently conflicted.
Prepare the changes, circulate them, and if the Cabinet doesn’t get behind them and take them to the LA, the Governor, who is responsible for the Elections Office thank God, should dust off section 81 and show that she can use it too.
Make them beat up their gums after.
East End and Northside should form one constituency.
It’s North Side.
Yea but West Bay is more North
East Side or North End?
Northeast Bay
Northeast Sidend
The voters need to petition for changes to the Elections Law to ban thugs with criminal and serious civil conviction pasts and no minimum educational criteria. They would never be allowed to be interviewed in the private sector. They certainty wouldn’t be promoted to boards or c-suite. We have gardener school leaver abusers lying about fake degrees and cocaine dealers sitting on public accounts committee, serving as ministers, forming policy, and being entrusted foolishly with hundreds of millions.Do Caymanians really want to continue to accept this?
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7.19am Agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately most voters today are only worried about “wha me can get”,
7:19am we created that problem, by allowing them in. 2003 status grants increased the lower class.
8:17 I agree that the 2003 was detrimental to our community, but would not refer to the ‘lower class’. The grants included low income people who could hardly afford to live here then, some of whom are now living on our welfare system. It also
Included artisans and professionals who are now secure in jobs that our children aspired to.
We continue to destroy our society, our beaches and our environment. Single member constituencies was the death knell.
Thank you to each and every person and organization who work to preserve our culture and heritage.
Only 3370 Cabinet Grants were granted 20 years ago, under pressure from UK because there was no lawful and functional path to citizenship. You really need to get over it. Since then, 10,700+ CI Status grants have gone though the regular framework machinery, on merit-based criteria, set out by Cabinets, and approved by successive PR and CI Status Board. These are Caymanians by merit, and like it or not, they get a say.
https://cnslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/ExtraGazette-No.33-2003-Status-grants-1.pdf
Bullshit. You ignore the thousands of legitimate status grants given by the Board at the same time, and the thousands of family members who immediate became Caymanian through the Cabinet grantees. You also ignore the clear and as yet not investigated indications of corruption associated.
There was no pressure from the UK. That’s just McKeeva’s excuse of blaming the UK for “forcing him to do it” when he does unpopular things. This is the same UK that sent Windrush people back home after 70 years.
Wow. thanks for that detail. I spot a Chief Officer, a Chief Justice, a Grand Court Judge , an Attorney General and a convicted child rapist amongst the seeming direct beneficiaries of MacKeeva’s largesse. A man, who by the date he had (in effect] granted those persons status was (according to the RCIP) a rapist. That is without taking into account First Cayman Bank or multitudes of other serious issues Wonderful. That is quite some rule of law you have going on there, Cayman. We should all be so proud and confident of our future.
and that is why many Cayman Citizens do not support independence
Please WE THE REGISTERED VOTERS would like a referendum on this! WE NEED A SAY. WE as a country CANNOT afford this!
Instead of commenting here, start the petition! Why does it always have to be someone else who does the hard work?
Farcical as always.
Can I be moved to a constituency that only includes my yard?
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First off: change the constituency names to remove any reference to the traditional districts. That is, no more WBS, GTC, BTW, etc., instead use GC01, GC02, GC08, SI02, etc. Then the constituencies can cross traditional boundaries. Our people can handle that.
They literally can not handle that. The tribes on these Islands can barely handle having a different last name or skin colour.
No chance they will start getting on board with mixing with the bush dwelling East Enders or Jamaicans in West Bay just because you change the rotten boroughs name.
Creating more constituencies means more salaries for idiot so called politicians who are accused of rape, bullying, drunkedness and downright stupidity when it comes to what is best for the country.
That is a different issue. We just need to stop voting for them.
Where does it say added constituencies?
Lock the door, stay inside and say less!
The article did in fact say they were recommending an additional seat for Bodden Town.
CONSIDERING recommending…
That’s Cayman speak for “it’s already been decided/directed”. New here much?