Drivers to get preview of EWA for Ag Show Day
(CNS): A piece of the East-West Arterial road between Hirst Road and Agricola Drive will open on Ash Wednesday for one day only to accommodate the expected heavy traffic heading to the annual Agricultural Show in Lower Valley. This new stretch of bypass providing an alternative route to Shamrock Road is not fully complete and remains an active construction zone with temporary road surfaces.
However, drivers will get a preview of the new road, which successive governments believe will reduce the growing traffic congestion into and out of George Town during the morning and evening commute.
This stretch of the road, which goes through already developed areas of Newlands and Lower Valley, was not the subject of an environmental impact assessment, so construction began sometime ago. The long delays to this part of the proposed road have nothing to do with the environmental work that has been required for the rest of the bypass, which will eventually be built out to Frank Sound.
It’s not clear when this part of the road will be open permanently to the public or when it is open, how much of an impact it will have on the commute for people living in the eastern districts. The congestion that residents in the east face on a daily basis relates to the amount of traffic that arrives every morning and evening at the bottleneck of Grand Harbour and the lack of an efficient, reliable and modern public transport system.
But tomorrow drivers will be given a chance to try it out as they head to one of Cayman’s most popular annual events. There is also a park and ride option for visitors to the 56th show. People coming in from the east can park at Bodden Town Primary School and take the free shuttle bus to Stacy Watler Agricultural Pavilion. Those coming in from the west have several parking options: Savannah Playfield, Savannah Adventist Church, the Cayman Islands Baptist Church or Prospect Primary School.
The Cayman Islands Agricultural Society has said that dogs will not be permitted on the grounds to ensure the safety of the other animals on show. “The presence of dogs, even if restrained with a leash, can potentially cause stress and harm to livestock and other attendees. Therefore, the CIAS kindly requests that all attendees refrain from bringing dogs to the event,” officials stated.
This year’s show is focused on the theme “Food Security is Everybody’s Business”. It will feature an array of activities aimed at celebrating local achievements in food security, promoting sustainability, and fostering community and regional engagement.
“After an impressive year showcasing our food security accomplishments, we have high expectations for this year’s Agriculture Show,” said Agriculture Minister Jay Ebanks. “We warmly invite everyone to join us in celebrating and supporting local produce.”
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 11, children under two years old and seniors 65+ are allowed in free. Raffle tickets are $25 and include admission. Tickets can be purchased on
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in the absence of an overall island wide development plan…this road is a terrible idea that exacerbate all the problems facing people living outside wb/gt peninsula
In building that highway I is wondering where all the top soil went.
Now Sue Winspear has gone will anyone take up the cause.
I did ask the same question when the Newlands CIFA football pitch removed it’s topsoil where the grass could not grow due to it being subject to it being watered by swamp water. I found out in the end but could not find the consideration for any sale. That was not dissimilar from missing fill at Prospect Properties that was run by our national hero.
It is remarkable how marl, rock and soil go missing. Auditors should keep an eye on these tings.
opening a semi-complete road?
what happened if there was a huge accident and someone lost their lives?
free tip for civil service and nra….finish one project properly before starting the next one.
That’s 15000 at one time.
Hope GT streets and everyone’s tempers can deal with it.
Taxis, tour buses, tourists all crammed in narrow streets as residents try to go about their business. Tourists being led like sheep across the road looking the wrong way.
All of that to burden Cayman with hundreds of Million$ of additional debt we can’t afford.
You really want that for “your people” Kenneth.?
Thank you Honorable Jon-Jon, you are the new action man. I wants you for Premier – one love my brethren.
We recognise prime sarcasm, but still can’t bring ourselves to thumb up.
Adeptus Ridiculous Dispatch: The Road to Madness
The hololithic display stutters, glitching as if struggling to contain the sheer weight of fiscal lunacy before it.
“Ah. The East-West Arterial road project. Another grand endeavor, another monument to delusions of foresight. And now, on Agricultural Show Day, the people shall be given a glimpse into the abyss—a ‘preview’ of the project’s scope. But let us be honest with ourselves, shall we? This is not a preview—this is a funeral procession for fiscal responsibility
“They say the cost of this project will be high. But high is subjective, isn’t it? High is a polite word used when something becomes so catastrophically overpriced that saying the real number aloud might summon the wrath of the Old Gods. Shall we make an educated guess?”**
Projected Costs: A Theoretical Bloodbath
1. The ‘Official’ Estimate – A carefully massaged number that sounds reasonable on paper. Perhaps a few hundred million. Palatable. Acceptable.
2. The ‘Unofficial’ Reality – The real cost, hidden beneath layers of revised budgets, emergency contingencies, and sudden ‘unexpected’ expenditures. Add at least another $300 million, and maybe then we’ll be in the realm of reality.
3. The Cayman Brac High School Precedent – Ah yes, the unholy measuring stick of cost overruns. If the Cayman Brac High School is any indication, this project will spiral into the heliopause , leaving the people clutching their wallets in horror as yet another fiscal black hole consumes their taxes.
insatiable hunger for concrete and asphalt, the obsession with building infrastructure before addressing its consequences. It is as if the lesson of every other over-budget project has been neatly filed away under ‘Mistakes We Shall Repeat Gloriously.’
The Madness of Expansion Without Thought
**“And so, we prepare to break ground. And what shall we find beneath the soil? A road? A solution? No, my dear, suffering intellects—we shall find delays. We shall find disputes over land acquisition. We shall find a budget that mutates like a Tyranid Hive Fleet, endlessly evolving, devouring everything in its path.”
Another Road to Nowhere:
The Adeptus leans back, rubbing his temples as his mechadendrites twitch erratically.
“Ah, but none of this matters, does it? The wheels are in motion. The speeches shall be made. The golden shovels will break the ground in a ceremonial display of self-congratulation. And the public? They shall watch, and some will even cheer, for they have been told this road is the path to salvation.”
He pauses, his lenses flickering dimly.
“But I see the truth. I see the path to fiscal ruin, paved with grand promises and zero accountability. And when the project spirals out of control? When the final cost exceeds anything ever imagined? When they look upon the budget and whisper, ‘What have we done?’—I shall be here, watching. And I shall not be surprised.”
The transmission flickers. A single phrase scrolls across the display before the screen cuts to black:
“This is not a road this is a highway to chaos!”
Wakey Wakey… Time to sober up.
Im getting drunk today. Big time.
Randy, I am the liquor.
Be the liquor, feel the liquor.
Liquor up front, poker in the rear.
I don’t think he’s intoxicated, unless it’s drunk with his own verbosity.
Title: Paving the Way to Financial Oblivion (Or: How to Spend a Billion Dollars on a Road and Still Have Traffic Jams)
Ah yes, my dear prophet of perpetual exasperation, once again you descend from your hallowed digital pulpit, armed with the sacred texts of unnecessary dramatization to inform us that—brace yourselves—a government project is going to cost a lot of money and take forever.
Let us not waste time wading through the dramatic monologues, the ominous allusions to cosmic horror, and the oddly specific references to Warhammer 40K lore. Instead, let us distill this grand proclamation down to its most basic essence:
“This road is going to be stupidly expensive, take years longer than expected, and end up costing triple the ‘official’ estimate because that’s how every major public works project on this island works.”
There. One sentence. And yet, you, my dear bard of bureaucratic despair, have instead chosen to weave a 600-word Shakespearean tragedy about asphalt and financial ruin.
Tell me, was it necessary to invoke ancient gods of fiscal chaos? Did the ominous flickering hololithic display truly add to the argument, or was it simply the literary equivalent of an unnecessary CGI explosion in a straight-to-DVD action movie?
You see, the problem is not your anger—your rage is entirely justified. No, the problem is that you could have simply written:
“The government is going to spend an obscene amount of money on a road while pretending they have it under control. Spoiler: They don’t.”
And that would have been enough.
But no, you had to embark upon an odyssey of over-explanation, a metaphysical journey into the depths of bureaucratic despair, as if a simple summary would fail to capture the sheer magnitude of governmental incompetence.
I say this with the utmost affection: you are in desperate need of a hobby. Perhaps birdwatching? Maybe pottery? Something—anything—that would prevent you from spending your days writing impassioned sci-fi dystopian screeds about municipal infrastructure projects.
For while the rest of us shall merely shrug and sigh when this project inevitably balloons into a bloated mess of delays and cost overruns, you, my dear narrator, will be standing there frothing at the mouth, screaming into the void as the golden ceremonial shovels hit the ground.
And truly, what a spectacle that will be.
With love,
The Duke of Common Sense: 345 flavors included
To say the Grand Harbour bottleneck causes the traffic backups out east tells me you have never lived out east.
People turning in and out of drive ways and side roads cause the traffic. It backups before you hit BT and frees up when you pass populated areas. Grand Harbour doesn’t add more than 10 minutes to my daily commute.
Typical west sider trying to protect the environment at the expense of the Caymanians in the east.
The cause of traffic here is 100%. Every time someone stops to let cars out of a side street on Shamrock Road, the traffic will grind to a halt. Once or twice is fine, but this happening repeatedly causes massive issues. With all the extra developments going up, this will make it far worse.
Most traffic jams are caused by driver behaviour honestly.
Yes! Another cut through for the traffic dodgers. Soon block off with cones and put in some speed bumps. Watch.
It’ll still be chaos. I’m out!
Just practice to get us used to 15,000 cruise passengers invading GT as soon as piers are built.
I see Royal Caribbean have pulled out of Falmouth Jamaica because their passengers are being harassed.
Just a matter of time for us as well, just try spending a peaceful time at the public beach.
Cayman used to pride itself as being a higgler hassle free destination.
Cruise piers will definitely have a negative impact on our tourism image.
Old news but good warning.