Mystery landowner set to gain big from cargo project

| 05/09/2024 | 121 Comments
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(CNS): Finding out who owns the land surrounding the Breakers site that the Cayman Islands Government is proposing to develop as a cargo facility is proving very difficult, given the barriers that exist here when it comes to land and company searches. However, CNS has learned that one mysterious company acquired hundreds of acres in the area just over a week after the last election.

CWS Cayman Ltd purchased at least eleven parcels of land at the end of April 2021, putting it in a favourable position if this proposed project goes ahead.

But Lands and Survey holds no information on this company, and the General Registry charges $30 to $50 per search to learn just the PO box number and possibly a director’s name. Given that this is just one of many companies, individuals, families and other entities that own land around the proposed site that CNS is trying to identify, the cost is prohibitive.

Therefore, we submitted a freedom of information request to the General Registry for information on this company to address the secrecy that currently surrounds land ownership in the Cayman Islands, especially where it has a direct impact on the public.

Within just 24 hours, the FOI request was denied, and we were invited to pay for a search. However, since we intend to seek out information on landowners around the East-West Arterial extension as well as the landowners around the proposed cargo facility, we will continue to press the government to reveal this information without payment, given the obvious public interest.

According to the limited information about landowners in the area that we have managed to gather so far, many parcels around the dock project have been in the hands of local, albeit politically connected, and prominent families for many years.

However, several parcels are now owned by large commercial entities, including companies connected to the Dart group. Others are in the hands of less well known individuals, overseas owners and other opaque land holding companies.

CNS has also seen documentation indicating that several prominent individuals from the community have been pressing for a cargo project in this area for many years. These individuals appear to have been instrumental in the proposal finding its way into the Strategic Outline Case drawn up by the then port director Joey Wood as well as some appointments to the Port Authority of the Cayman Islands board.

The SPS on the cargo expansion provided an overview of a number of options for what some argue is a pressing need to expand cargo operations in Cayman to meet the growing demand for goods in the face of a growing population.

At two meetings in George Town and Bodden Town last month, Ports Minister Kenneth Bryan said there were concerns that the current George Town port had “reached its functional capacity”. Therefore, as the local economy and population grow, it will no longer be able to handle the amount of stuff this country imports.

Unless there is a fundamental shift in the governance of the country and new policy decisions that actually are sustainable, the port will likely struggle to handle imports within the next decade. Government could take a different view of growth but this administration, like its predecessors, remains on an unsustainable path, allowing unlimited population growth, continuous development and unchecked consumption.

According to the consultants currently working on the outline business case for the project, if the project goes ahead, it will also attract other related industries to the area, such as a new concrete plant fuelling the vicious circle of development.

This additional development and the infrastructure required to support such an ambitious project will ensure that the value of the surrounding land will increase significantly.

During the Bodden Town meeting, former speaker of the House Mary Lawrence noted that the discussion about a commercial cargo port in Breakers is not new and has been circulating for many years. As a result, people have bought land knowing full well the profits that are likely to be made if this project goes ahead.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    A nice bit of Cayman corruption

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  2. Anonymous says:

    There ia a statutory fee fixed for Registry searches. This Search Fee has always existed…and so no amount of FOI appeals can waive a statutorily fixed fee.

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    • Chris Johnson says:

      You first need find the registered office for some searches. Several have only P O Boxes. The ROC seems to think that is OK. Well it is not but they do not listen.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Facts: “the original settlers have now been outnumbered by new settlers who the old settlers imported”.😂

    …and, everything they lawfully inherited, everything they worked hard to build (including amassed family legacies), & real estate/properties deceptively acquired (especially, from Family Members & Associates) are now ALL enjoyed, or positioned to be enjoyed, by imported/foreign settlers & new settlers. The barrage of foreign Church Establishments on Islands’, as well as other non- profits, has played an integral part in the influx of foreign settlers convetting “old settlers” properties. Watch–and pay attention!

    It reads like “Colonial Karma” 😉

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  4. Truth hurts bad bad says:

    What would you do, what could you do if you all knew who owned the land? Do you even know what Caymanian family sold the land or does that matter at all? What actually is the problem here? Smart people (not schooled here) taking advantage of undereducated people? Honest question. If it would solve Caymanians many problems could it be even possible to get educated, dedicated, and experianced people to run your education system? No bobo. Not in your lifetime.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Just because people arent greedy or money driven, doesnt make them uneducated or unambitious.

  5. Anonymous says:

    Should put it in the North Sound instead, just to spite them.

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  6. Anonymous says:

    Was that land not all owned by Moffitts who proposed an LNG gas line? Perhaps owned by CUC/ Fortis?

    Likely all bought by Dart. The CWS companies share a P.O. Box with other Dart companies.

    Maybe a visit to the registered office will reveal more.

    CNS Note: If you know where the CWS Cayman Ltd registered office is we would love to know it!

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    • Anonymous says:

      Moffit never owned anything. The beauty of Cayman Planning Laws is that any of us can file a planning permit to develop a mini golf course in Dart’s back yard on Coral Beach.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Send a fax

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    • Anonymous says:

      Dart also bought land in that area from the Wood family. That was where the so-called Bodden Town landfill was to go.

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  7. Anonymous says:

    5 minutes of actual research will show that CWS Cayman Ltd doesn’t even own 11 parcels of land in total.

    It would also appear, from the same 5 minutes of research that that land purchases in the area started as far back as 2012, rendering any conspiracy theory just that.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Correct. Only 9. But if CWS also owns CWT and CWU, and CWV, and CWW, and CWX, and CWY etc. what is your point?
      CWS Block and Parcel ownership:
      47A37
      47A38
      48C136
      48C182
      48C209
      48C267
      48C268
      48C282
      52B85

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      • Anonymous says:

        Looks like it was an all or nothing deal from Midland Acres Ltd.

        • Anonymous says:

          Is that the same Midland Acres Ltd that was involved in the illegal importation of explosives, McKeeva got mixed up in it all somehow. Was it around the time of the Dart dump deal as well?

    • Anonymous says:

      In 2020 all of the parcels in my previous post all owned by Midland Acres Ltd.

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  8. Anonymous says:

    Hedging. Smart.

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  9. Anonymous says:

    A lot of chatter here and nothing gets done, why? Our island is being stolen right before our eyes and we do is come here and complain. What we have here is blatantly corruption in disguise. The island does not need this new port or the EW road extension or cruise piers.here projects are financial suicide for this country. I am certain if one brave person was to whistleblow to the UK we definetely see some positive changes. BTW Legge was right.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Is it theft when generational Caymanians sell the land, or collaborate with the buyer? Rather than throw the rock at the outsider, perhaps we should look a little closer to home at those who in their short term personal interest endanger the environment and Caymanians heritage.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Not stolen. Bought and paid for like everything and everywhere else. Could it be that your over expensive and underperforming(since forever)education system is failing you now and forever? Who can you blame for that? Who could fix that? Can’t be that. Must be Dart. Or expats.

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  10. Anonymous says:

    While we wait, how about speculating on what the initials CWS stand for? The winner gets $10 from Kenny’s GIF (Good Idea Fund).

    My guess is Cabinet Wants Something in return.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Cayman Waste Services would be one good guess. All that land was the proposed site for the relocation of everything at Mount Trashmore.

      Everyone in BT opposed moving the dump there and shot that idea down, but now Dart has an even more lucrative deal for those holes he was going to dump garbage into. The man can’t lose for winning.

      Of course, I would underestimate the possibility that was his intentions all along, and he just said that it was going to be used for a dump to be able to purchase the land really cheap.

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  11. Anonymous says:

    If you have access to search the Lands and Survey database you will see that CWS Cayman does indeed own a lot of property in Cayman. The listed address is P.O. Box 698, which I believe is used by the lawfirm Hampson and Company.

    A search of the L&S database for property owners that list their address as P.O. Box 698 returns the following:
    Island Energy Ltd.
    Dart Realty
    Bluff Landholdings
    Shoreline Development
    and many, many, many more.

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    • Anonymous says:

      There you have it. It’s not so hard.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Just a few more of the suspected Dart vast land Holding companies. with PO Box 31363. Very troubling! Even more troubling is no one seems to know the extent of his vast holdings. We are a very small island!

      https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/kenneth-dart-cayman-islands.html

      AERODROME LANDS LTD
      BUTTONWOOD PROPERTIES LTD
      CARIB ISLE LTD
      CAYMAN SHORES DEVELOPMENT LTD
      CAYTERRA LIMITED
      CIYCAM LTD
      CRYMBLE LANDHOLDINGS LTD
      DRAGON BAY (FREEHOLD) LTD
      GH ESTATES LTD
      GOLDEN SUN CAYMAN LTD
      GREYHAWK CREEK LTD
      HRL DEVELOPMENT LTD
      IHC PROPERTIES LTD
      IRONWOOD PROPERTIES LTD
      KRYOS CAYMAN LTD
      LC ESTATES LTD
      PALM SUNSHINE LTD
      PARADISE HOLIDAY HOLDINGS LTD
      PIPER RESORTS (CAYMAN) LTD
      RC CAYMAN HOTEL HOLDINGS LTD
      RC CAYMAN PROPERTY HOLDINGS LTD
      SEAFIRE RESIDENCES LTD
      SEAFIRE RESORTS LTD
      TURTLE CREEK INVESTMENTS LTD
      VORTIGERN ESTATES LTD

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      • Anonymous says:

        Drop, ocean. Tip, iceberg. Good work! Keep digging.

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        • Agast says:

          Comment makes no sense…

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          • Anonymous says:

            Only to you it seems. The names on the list are only a drop in the ocean (there are many, many more). So the list is just the tip of the iceberg but good work. The person is suggesting if we keep digging, we will find more D companies and I suspect more than one reg office is used too.

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            • Agast says:

              Thank you for the clarification – makes sense now. I favor logical sentences rather than cryptic innuendo.

    • Anonymous says:

      All DART……

      “The strategy of vulture funds is to buy government debts at sharply reduced prices when weak governments are in crisis, and eventually force these governments to pay the full amount of the debt.”

      And also buys all the countries real estate…..

      They have this country by the nuts and have their hands in every pot.

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      • Anonymous says:

        They were buying land here in the 90’s. Ask Mark VanDevelde (married a Caymanian settled in Salt Creek / another Dart development)

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      • Agast says:

        Except Cayman has never been in real financial crisis like Greece and Brasil; hence no venture capitalist activity here. Dart bought from Caymanians who very willingly sold their legacy holdings. And much of the land titles from the Caymanians were murky at best. So actually it was generational Caymanians who screwed over their countrymen/women and laundered the money. They made a lot of money by selling their ill-gotten land titles.

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      • a says:

        All sales gleefully sold by Generational Caymanians. Who is to blame?

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    • Anonymous says:

      #2

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  12. Anonymous says:

    It’s not such a mystery….this has been known for years! The name rhymes with ‘FART’

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  13. Anonymous says:

    You can review the Register of Members for any Cayman company for free at their Registered Office. If you want a copy they can charge a reasonable copying fee, which can be no more than $10. The Register of Members is far more useful than the Register of Directors.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Surely a registered office will not just open up the registers for anyone knocking on the door?

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      • Anonymous says:

        It’s in the law that this is allowed.

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        • Anon says:

          We are getting what the duck got. Aflaaaacked. Sadly we did this to ourselves when we let the wolf in the door with all his “good tings”. Question is where is the monkey wrench when you needs one….or two?

      • Anonymous says:

        They will try to tell you that they cannot or they need to get the company’s consent before releasing it, but both of those things are untrue. If you go armed with a print off of Section 44 of the Companies Act, politely remind them that it is a $500 fine for each time they refuse and then ask again, they will usually comply.

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        • Anonymous says:

          But unfortunately it doesn’t always give you answers you want, because certain folk use nominee shareholders/directors and multiple holding companies/complex structures to protect the ID of the underlying UBO.

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    • Chris Johson says:

      Sometimes the public overlook this procedure. We can also find out the names of directors from the ROC and signatories of persons signing land purchase agreements from the land registry.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Except when the UBO is hidden by virtue of using nominee shareholder and director services. Oh what a tangled Web we weave.

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  14. Anonymous says:

    Just confirms how long this has all been in the works, regardless of the smokescreen of “public input/consultation.” Just as we figured. Electors’ input doesn’t make any difference; once we have voted, that’s all the say we get.

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  15. Anonymous says:

    When one looks at what was publicly known about the corruption before the British Government stepped in and took control in Turks & Caicos and the BVI, I would imagine that the clock must be ticking on us.

    A balanced budget with surpluses (thanks to an earlier intervention by the UK Government to limit borrowing) is the only thing that separates us from those other two British Dependent Territories.

    We all want alternatives, but unfortunately the people offering up themselves as saviours bear a very strong resemblance to those whom Desmond Tutu observed in a similar situation after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa. He said “They promised to stop the gravy train, but once elected they only slowed it down long enough to jump onboard”.

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    • Anonymous says:

      I wouldn’t be so sure. The CIG Balance Sheet is an admitted forgery omitting >KYD$2.1 Billion in liabilities, and the OAG confirms that the financial accounting for the total civil service consistently fails every year. Those that have conspired to conceal the true financial position from the public and UK FCO have done so to forge compliance with the Framework for Fiscal Responsibility, and time is longer than rope on that. This level of financial conspiracy is a jurisdiction killing global headline waiting to happen.

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  16. Anonymous says:

    BIG corruption usually sucks in the detractors, and this has already, and nothing will be done until saltwater completely floods or inundates Northward.

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  17. Anonymous says:

    Cargo ports typically attract a range of businesses that support and benefit from the transportation, logistics, and supply chain activities happening there. These businesses are essential for the smooth functioning of the port and related industries. Common types of businesses found around cargo ports include:

    1. **Shipping and Freight Companies**
    – **Shipping Lines**: Companies that own and operate fleets of ships to transport goods internationally.
    – **Freight Forwarders**: Businesses that arrange the transport of goods for exporters and importers.
    – **Customs Brokers**: They help businesses comply with customs regulations, handle paperwork, and facilitate the clearance of goods.

    2. **Logistics and Warehousing**
    – **Distribution Centers**: Facilities that store goods temporarily before they are moved further inland.
    – **Third-Party Logistics (3PL)**: Companies that manage logistics and supply chain services, including transportation, warehousing, and inventory management.
    – **Cold Storage Facilities**: Specialized warehousing for perishable goods like food and pharmaceuticals.

    3. **Transportation and Infrastructure**
    – **Trucking Companies**: Transport goods between the port and inland destinations.
    – **Rail Services**: Ports often have connections to rail networks for long-haul transport.
    – **Container Storage**: Facilities that handle and store empty containers for future use.

    4. **Manufacturing and Assembly**
    – **Light Manufacturing**: Some companies set up manufacturing or assembly plants near ports for easy access to imported raw materials or exported finished goods.
    – **Packaging Companies**: Businesses that package products, often for export or distribution after import.

    5. **Marine Services**
    – **Ship Maintenance and Repair**: Shipyards, dry docks, and repair facilities for vessel maintenance.
    – **Pilot and Tugboat Services**: Companies that assist in guiding ships into and out of port safely.
    – **Fuel Suppliers**: Businesses providing bunker fuel and other marine supplies to vessels.

    6. **Trade-Related Services**
    – **Import/Export Agencies**: Facilitate trade between domestic and international businesses.
    – **Commodity Traders**: Some ports specialize in specific types of cargo like oil, grain, or metals, which attracts trading companies.
    – **Inspection and Certification Services**: Companies that ensure goods meet quality and regulatory standards.

    7. **Retail and Wholesale**
    – **Duty-Free Shops**: Typically found near international shipping routes, selling goods without local taxes or duties.
    – **Wholesale Importers**: Businesses that buy goods in bulk directly from ships for local distribution.

    8. **Support and Ancillary Services**
    – **Banks and Insurance Companies**: Specializing in trade finance, insurance for cargo, and risk management.
    – **Legal and Consulting Firms**: Focus on maritime law, trade regulations, and port operations.
    – **IT and Technology Providers**: Companies offering software and hardware solutions for port operations, customs clearance, and logistics tracking.

    9. **Environmental Services**
    – **Waste Management Companies**: Handling ship-generated waste and pollutants.
    – **Recycling Facilities**: Especially for ship materials or containers that are being decommissioned.

    10. **Hospitality and Food Services**
    – **Hotels and Restaurants**: Catering to business travelers, port workers, and crew members.
    – **Catering and Provisioning**: Supplying food and other essentials for ship crews during their stay at port.

    These businesses form a vital ecosystem around cargo ports, enabling the efficient movement of goods globally.

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  18. anonymous says:

    the cruise industries threats are without basis. Many ports in the mediterrean can only be accessed by tender, nothing unusual

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    • Anon says:

      And a lot of them are starting to either limit or ban cruises altogether because of the destruction and over crowding that comes with cruises

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    • Anonymous says:

      Yep. They ker going to Santorini Greece for example even tho it’s a tough tender, then funicular or donkey walk or trek

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      • Noroundabouts says:

        And when you get to the top of the cliffs it’s one of the nicest places on earth. We could have the same thing in the Brac except we can’t build on the edge. Too bad.

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        • Anonymous says:

          The view from the top of Santorini compared to The Brac by comparison, let’s say The Brac might not be in the same league . If we are trying to compare mangoes to mangoes.

      • Chris Johnson says:

        Seen it done it in Santorini. You are quite right.
        We do not need new and bigger docks.
        Concentrate on long term stayovers like the Turks. They have fast overtaken us.

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  19. Anonymous says:

    The Land Registers will state the registered office address of the company in question. It’s usually fairly easy to piece together who is behind things based on that.

    CNS: This should be the case but unfortunately we discovered that almost no information was posted on the land registry for this company – no address, no directors names, nothing – only the company name and the date of purchase of each of the lots. And this is the case for many others, too. It has not been in the least bit ‘fairly easy’ to piece anything together as the time-consuming searching we have done, including of open source material and even the register of interest, has demonstrated that what should be there simply is not.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Unless the owners wanted it kept secret from the public, or have outsourced their annual compliance reporting, in which case the RO will be their lawyers office. Of course the authorities know who the beneficial owners are because of the compliance requirements, but they don’t make that public and given the sensitivity to public identification of owners in the offshore world CNS would need a court order rather than a FOI to shake that loose.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Nothing on the land register.

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    • Anonymous says:

      CNS that is a clear breach of the Registered Land Law and the Registered Land Rules. The Land Register as well as every statutory form provides that the address must be stated.

      The Registrar of Lands will need to explain what has happened here.

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  20. Anonymous says:

    PO Boxes are not allowed to be used as Registeted Offices, has to be a physical address.

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  21. Anonymous says:

    Only Island in history taken over without a fight. Grand Cayman, where the ex-pat far outnumbers the local, has their own economies built, while the locals sleep walk around at CUC and Government paid jobs. its so laughable if it wasn’t so sad.

    LTD DA Unboozler

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    • Anonymous says:

      That’s been the story of the Caribbean since Columbus stumbled ashore and started nabbing gold from the natives. The only difference in Cayman’s case is that it has been a settler population from day one. And the original settlers have now been outnumbered by new settlers who the old settlers imported.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Read some actual factual history – Columbus failed miserably at finding gold. Yes, others did, but your account of history is woefully poor.

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        • Anonymous says:

          Did I say he succeeded? Anyone who has read the accounts of his four voyages knows that gold was most certainly one of his primary motivations and he took every nugget he could get his hands on.

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          • Anonymous says:

            Thank you for agreeing with me! He was motivated but failed. Others did succeed. Again, read some history.

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      • Anonymous says:

        If he took gold from the natives, where are the gold mines in the Caribbean?

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        • Anonymous says:

          The point is that he came and pillaged what he could. No one is saying there was industrial quantities of gold. Hence his great disappointment as he sailed about looking and finding only decorative amounts dangling on the ears of the Taino.

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          • a says:

            So basically you are retracting your initial comment… Nice that you did some essential research – after your incorrect initial comment. Sheesh… “The point is;” meaning, you were incorrect! Get more history!

  22. Anonymous says:

    I am not convinced that land values will increase if a port ever goes there. Certainly from a residential standpoint, a nearby port will likely devalue the land as residents will be less likely to want to live near an industrial port.

    And this concept is years and years and years away from ever happening. From decision making to studying to planning to tendering and constructing such a large-scale project, this is at least 10 years away at best.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Actually it will be 9 years of planning and study then the project will fall apart.

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    • Anonymous says:

      And in the meantime government will be purchasing land from its new owner in order to put in the road, irrespective of whether the port ever gets built.

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  23. Anonymous says:

    If it looks, smells and feels like corruption…you know where I’m going with this.

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  24. Anonymous says:

    I will happily help cns pay for the searches. Unfortunately the searches will not reveal who owns the company but maybe some other information can be gleaned. This is why this Island needs an open registry. Corruption is rampant and not getting any better.

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    • FORTE says:

      We’re on the verge widespread and blatant corruption. Soon we’ll look like Russia or Venezuela or such.

      It should be a NO-Brainer and the RIGHT of the public to get to the bottom of any situation such as this.
      The government speaks of transparency and a lot of other fair policies, and yet, they continually stab their own people in the back for their own gain.

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      • Anonymous says:

        On the verge of, what? We’re already there and it’s been going on well before Legge legged it stateside.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Errr no, we are not on the verge widespread and blatant corruption.

        It’s been going on since Govt formed.

        The difference is they can’t hide it like they used to because the public have the ability to obtain information that was previously hidden or easily covered up.

  25. Anonymous says:

    Drat! (Or an anagram of that word)

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  26. Anonymous says:

    Great work, keep it up!

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  27. Anonymous says:

    Notice also that the push for the cruise dock continues. Predictably, Cayman is expected to commit to massive infrastructural spending based solely on some threats from a couple cruise industry executives in Miami.

    If the industry cattle wagons are really to be so big that the occupants can only be disgorged onto a dock, then why do they carry lifeboats?

    The threats levelled at Cayman are as nasty and hollow as the overall cruise experience.

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  28. Anonymous says:

    So what is the problem with this? Just business as usual. Is this a problem because it is not done the DEI way? Those who didn’t earn it don’t get it? Honest Question. Insider trading?The owners knew something that most didn’t and had the money or ability to get a loan? Isn’t that just normal here? Another honest question. Maybe the answers are in who is the ones complaining.

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    • Anonymous says:

      The simple answer is that local and foreign educated folks actually think ahead 10-15 years for investing. CIG is completely out of its league. Better lawyers, better accountants, better project managers, forward thinkers who saw an uneducated electorate who can/was easily herded off the cliff. And Caymanians lined up for the jump.

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  29. Anonymous says:

    So, are we demonizing people for owning land?!! Particularly in certain parts of the island. No matter what hedging someone does with purchasing land, it is no guarantee that the Government will be building the port or anything around it. We all know that before anything is done in Cayman, there has to be decades of talking, more talking, and then debates on the issue. Take for instance the EWA… after decades of talk, we are finally getting this much needed road. Yes, much needed.

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    • Anonymous says:

      We’re not but you have to admit the timing of the buying of the land is suspicious.And we shouldn’t need to spend an arm and a leg to find out who owns the land. Money laundering is more likely to be done with land now that they can’t use the bank. I find it ironic that Andre want to levy fees on the Caymanians through banks and Credit Union but the foreign land owners can hide behind ghost companies.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Nice try. BTW EWA is not needed.

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      • Anonymous says:

        how is it not? you must live in west bay.

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        • Anonymous says:

          God help you if they put a cargo dock in the middle of the island- you may as well buy a helicopter to get you to town.

          $$$mills on a road that is NOT going to fix the traffic problem.

          NRA know it WON’T get you anywhere quicker, they are building it to stop traffic getting worse.

          What we truly need is a PUBLIC BUS SERVICE!

          But we got Stevie Wonders at the helm.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Sounds like you are a shareholder in CWS Cayman Limited

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    • Anonymous says:

      Correct 7.53….those of us who missed out on this commercial opportunity can’t blame those who took advantage of a possible future benefit.
      The land was after all transferred by a willing seller who also profited from the transaction.
      Don’t let envy poison your day.

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    • Anonymous says:

      The problem is not savvy investing in property on the hunch that it will be valuable in the future, a la John Jacob Astor. Anyone who can do that, more power to them. It is the land owners using influence over politician driving policy decisions to ensure that their land is valuable rather than politicians doing what is in the best interest of the Caymanian people as a whole.

  30. Anonymous says:

    Baird’s Report on condition and capacity at George Town Port disagrees significantly with Bryan’s amateur self-assessed end of life capacity statements, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone. The ACC should be drilling into the laundering and obscuration of UBO information at the Lands Registry. eg.DRCL uses hundreds of nominee companies in this way, and for PLA applications. For a jurisdiction fighting internationally to defend the suitability of its AML regime, it’s a completely different standard of enabling opacity being applied within CIG branches.

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    • Anonymous says:

      The UBO information isn’t obscured – annual compliance requirements include the disclosure of UBOs. It’s just not available to the public or the press. It is available to the authorities and law enforcement. So it would be really easy for ACC to identify the UBOs of the company that bought the land. But will try – who is naive enough to think the ACC will go after the big dogs and not just middle and low grade civil servants for minor acts of corruption like vehicle inspections. RCIPS won’t even breathalyze politicians and you think they will investigate the possibility of a corrupt arrangement between members of the current government and major local landowners?

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      • Anonymous says:

        If Charles Jennings, Simon Whicker and other members are not going to do the full job entrusted to this oversight commission, nor exercise impartially in referring corruption files for investigations here they exist, then that’s really really stinky, and signals that the FCO needs to dismiss our biased gatekeepers and formally step in with it’s own investigation teams.

        https://www.anticorruptioncommission.ky/commission-members

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  31. Anonymous says:

    Cayman is fully in the clutches of developers, local and foreign, who will stop at nothing in their quest for the almighty dollar. They are fully aided and abetted in their schemes by the politicians and the senior level civil servants. The place is now basically corrupt and rotten.

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    • Anonymous says:

      “They are fully aided and abetted in their schemes by the politicians and the senior level civil servants.” How very true – Cayman has been sold out by it’s own.

  32. Anonymous says:

    Some of these large parcels were purchased in the days and weeks after the last election.

    Coincidence? Collusion? Corruption?

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    • Anonymous says:

      Other plots along the proposed EW Arterial route have been changing hands both during and after the original plans to FS were drawn well over a decade ago. Hence they insist on the same route.

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  33. Anonymous says:

    Follow the money!

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