development
Contractors at liberty to drive neighbours crazy
(CNS): Developers and contractors have been working through the weekends, including Sundays, while during the week work goes on late into the night and in the early hours of the morning, disturbing people living in these neighbourhoods.
Overwater bungalows refused by Cabinet
(CNS): A coastal works application for overwater bungalows on Little Cayman has been refused by Cabinet. According to the brief summary document of a Cabinet meeting held on 15 February, which was released on Wednesday evening, permission for what would have been an unprecedented and extremely controversial part of a proposed project at Kingston Bight, […]
NRA to open bids for EIA on E-W Arterial extension
(CNS): The National Roads Authority is about to begin the search for consultants to conduct an environmental impact assessment to extend the East-West Arterial Road as far as Frank Sound. NRA Director Edward Howard said work was underway to get the procurement documents posted soon as possible, given the commitment the PACT Government has made […]
Dart accused of eco-destruction by landowners
(CNS): Harris McCoy, one of several landowners in dispute with Kenneth Dart over the bike trails he is cutting in North Side that are encroaching on their land, has said Dart’s workers are destroying trees and endangered plants on his property, including rare endemic orchids.
Airport seeks consultants for private terminal plan
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Airports Authority is looking for consultants to undertake an outline business case (OBC) to update the master plan for all three of its airports, with a focus on a new general aviation terminal at Owen Roberts International. Having spent around $120 million on the redevelopment of the main airport and airfield […]
Schilling calls for conversation on tall towers in George Town
(CNS): The dot.com millionaire turned developer, Frank Schilling, has said that the community needs to start a conversation now about building taller in downtown George Town, because unless we plan on closing the country’s borders, more people are going to come here. Schilling is working on a number of development projects after buying land across […]
Dozens object to $125M Crystal Harbour hotel project
(CNS): A planning application for a major hotel and residential project in Crystal Harbour has generated dozens of objections from residents in the wealthy gated community. An application by Land Ltd (Silverfin) for the Prisma Project will be heard by the Central Planning Authority on Wednesday.
Activists urge voters to lobby MPs over LC resort
(CNS): The decision by the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board (DCB) to hear and grant an application dealing with only part of a controversial resort project in Little Cayman “flies in the face of environmental, social and economic responsibility”, local activists have said.
Controversial LC resort gets partial green light
(CNS): A proposed new beach resort development at Kingston Bight on Little Cayman, where developers want to build overwater bungalows, has been given a partial green light after the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board considered the application last week for the land-side component of the project.
CPA urged to wait on court before hearing Baer application
(CNS): A canal-front project that is currently the subject of a legal challenge because the developers constructed a sea wall without a coastal works licence has made its way onto the agenda of next week’s Central Planning Authority meeting, just two months before the case will next be heard in court, as the developers are […]
Health City breaks ground on new $100M hospital
(CNS): Government officials and Dart executives were out in force Thursday morning for the official ‘golden shovel’ moment when Health City Cayman Islands, the hospital founded by world-renowned Indian heart surgeon, Devi Shetty, broke ground on a new facility south of Camana Bay. The new 70,000 sqft state-of-the-art hospital will be built on three acres […]
