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Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
The brief and one-sided Spanish-American War comes to an end when Spain formally agrees to a peace protocol on U.S. terms: the cession of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Manila in the Philippines to the United States pending a final peace treaty.
The Spanish-American War had its origins in the rebellion against Spanish rule that began in Cuba in 1895. The repressive measures that Spain took to suppress the guerrilla war, such as herding Cuba's rural population into disease-ridden garrison towns, were graphically portrayed in U.S. newspapers and enflamed public opinion. In January 1898, violence in Havana led U.S. authorities to order the battleship USS Maine to the city's port to protect American citizens. On February 15, a massive explosion of unknown origin sank the Maine in the Havana harbor, killing 260 of the 400 American crewmembers aboard. An official U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry ruled in March, without much evidence, that the ship was blown up by a mine but did not directly place the blame on Spain. Much of Congress and a majority of the American public expressed little doubt that Spain was responsible, and called for a declaration of war.
READ MORE: Did Yellow Journalism Fuel the Outbreak of the Spanish-American War?
In April, the U.S. Congress prepared for war, adopting joint congressional resolutions demanding a Spanish withdrawal from Cuba and authorizing President William McKinley to use force. On April 23, President McKinley asked for 125,000 volunteers to fight against Spain. The next day, Spain issued a declaration of war. The United States declared war on April 25. On May 1, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish Pacific fleet at Manila Bay in the first battle of the Spanish-American War. Dewey's decisive victory cleared the way for the U.S. occupation of Manila in August and the eventual transfer of the Philippines from Spanish to American control.
On the other side of the world, a Spanish fleet docked in Cuba's Santiago harbor in May after racing across the Atlantic from Spain. A superior U.S. naval force arrived soon after and blockaded the harbor entrance. In June, the U.S. Army Fifth Corps landed in Cuba with the aim of marching to Santiago and launching a coordinated land and sea assault on the Spanish stronghold. Included among the U.S. ground troops were the Theodore Roosevelt-led "Rough Riders," a collection of Western cowboys and Eastern blue bloods officially known as the First U.S. Voluntary Cavalry. On July 1, the Americans won the Battle of San Juan Hill, and the next day they began a siege of Santiago. On July 3, the Spanish fleet was destroyed off Santiago by U.S. warships under Admiral William Sampson, and on July 17 the Spanish surrendered the city—and thus Cuba—to the Americans.
In Puerto Rico, Spanish forces likewise crumbled in the face of superior U.S. forces, and on August 12 an armistice was signed between Spain and the United States. On December 10, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish-American War. The once-proud Spanish empire was virtually dissolved, and the United States gained its first overseas empire. Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the United States, the Philippines were bought for $20 million, and Cuba became a U.S. protectorate. Philippine insurgents who fought against Spanish rule during the war immediately turned their guns against the new occupiers, and 10 times more U.S. troops died suppressing the Philippines than in defeating Spain.
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The Times of India («Таймс оф Індія») — одна з найпопулярніших та найавторитетніших газет Індії. За тиражем (2 400 тис. прим. у 2005 році) обійшла всі англомовні великоформатні газети у світі.

Як ранкова газета для британських підданих, що проживають в Індії, почала видаватися в Бомбеї 1838 року під назвою «The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce». До 1851 року виходила двічі на тиждень, потім — щодня. У 1861 році була перейменована за аналогією з лондонською «The Times».

Після здобуття Індією незалежності нейтральний і ґрунтовний тон газети сприяв зростанню її престижу, особливо в колах інтелігенції. Редакційна політика газети, як правило, збігається з курсом індійського уряду.

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On Accountability
I've spent much of my working life dealing with, and sometimes working in, bureaucratic institutions in the Public, Private and Voluntary Sectors and, if truth be told, there is often little to choose between them.
Anyone who believes that the private sector is somehow the ultimate antidote to bureaucracy has either never worked for a multi-national corporation or never read Dilbert. Work for any sizeable NGO, even a local one, and you rapidly find yourself working for a self-conscious homunculous of the Public Sector populated largely by people with too little talent to merit a decent paycheck and too many qualifications do a real job; and then, of course, there is the Public Sector, itself, the evolutionary apex of beadledom that sits atop the bureaucratic food chain and bestrides the realm of officialdom like a Collosus.
In all these years of tangling with bureaucracy I have, admittedly, learned many useful things. I know, for example, that micro-management is the surest possible indicator of incompetence known to man and that the primary purpose of strategy meetings is to make decision-making processes so diffuse and incomprehensible that it is impossible to attribute blame to any particular individual when things go pear-shaped.
I've learned enough over the years to have even formulated my own universal law of bureaucracy:
In a bureaucracy, any given question has three possible answers:
1. the right answer,
2. the wrong answer, and
3. the answer that best covers the arse of the person to whom the question is put.
The actual answer given is always number 3.
Yet there is no facet of bureaucracy more loathesome than the attitude of of its multitudinous functionaries towards the concept accountability. Put simple accountability is something that happens to other people, or more rarely still, to a carefully chosen sacrificial scapegoat chosen by the bureaucratic hivemind to carry the can on those rare occasions where it cannot shake off the consequences of a really major fuck-up.
Today brings us two examples of just such a thing, both of which beggar belief.
The first, is of course, the little matter of discovering that being placed on the sex offenders register for accessing child pronography does not automatically, as most people reasonably assumed, result in the offenders being added to the DfEE's 'List 99' and, therefore, being prohibited from working with children as a teacher.
Instead we now discover that where offenders are merely cautioned, such a ban is in the discretion of the DfEE under powers granted to the Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly – who, unfortunately, seems as bemused as everyone else as to how this could have happened.
So it is we get all the usual platitudes. Kelly has, naturally, taken 'full responsibility'; there will, of course, be a review – and not
just any old review but an immediate review. The law may even be 'tightened' (yawn) and from now on she will personally consider any cases where a ministerial decision is needed to include people an offender on the list – which is, of course, what she should have been doing in the first place.
But on the matter of the single, patently obvious question that this issue raises; that of just exactly who the total fuckwit was who actually decided that man who had been cautioned for accessing child porn was fit to work as a PE teacher – nothing.
Just a lot of staring at the ceiling, shuffling from foot to foot and tuneless whistling – say nothing, admit nothing and hope it will all fade quietly in the background.
(Totally O/T BTW, but has anyone else noticed the similarity between the way bureaucrats act when put on the spot and asked awkward questions and public urinal etiquette amongst heterosexual males?)
It is thought that it may have been a junior minister who made this decision – although former MP Stephen Twigg who was the relevant junior minister at the time has denied all knowledge of this case – or maybe a civil servant. Whoever it actually was, the one thing we can we can be sure of is that they will not be brought publicly to account for the screw-up. In fact, unless this whole business blows up into a shitstorm of biblical proportions and Kelly, herself, is forced out of office then the worst that may happen to the actual culprit is that they may get a private bollocking for 'letting the side down', but that's about as bad a sanction the hivemind will usually countenance.
Although the issue is serious, the consequences on this occasion seem thankfully very limited. The problem has, hopefully, been identified before any serious damage has been done and, with luck, the worst fallout there will be will be a few discrete dismissals as other similar offenders who may have slipped through the net of official scrutiny are identified and traced.
The second example is far more serious; that of the Rochdale 'Satantic Abuse' scandal – and scandal is the only word for it – highlighted by the BBC's 'Real Story' documentary, which aired tonight.
If you missed the programme, the short-run version events is that back in 1990 – at the height of a media-driven moral panic about 'satanic child abuse' which had started in the US – social workers in Rochdale descended on a number of poor families living on a run down estate in the town and summarily removed their children into care, convinced that they had uncovered the first case of systematic ritual Satanic child abuse in Britain.
They had no evidence to support this idea.
They spent the next few months, interviewing these children – initially there were four from a single family but as the investigation progressed other families were dragged into it, and their children removed into care, on the strength of nothing more than their children knowing or having played with the children at the centre of this case.
These children, of which there were twenty in total by the end, were interviewed repeatedly by two social workers – the programme showed film of these interviews which demonstrated clearly, even to the untrained eye, that they were, im my personal opinion, simply not competent at the time to conduct such an investigation.
There is more I would say, as a psychologist, having seen the interviews with the children, carried out by these social workers, included in the programme but on this rare occasion an understanding of the pernicious nature libel laws cautions discretion – suffice to say if you do manage to see the programme, then I'm firmly behind the expert witnesses in their opinion, which is stronger than that expressed by the family court judge at the time
At first, Rochadale Social Services tried to bring criminal charges against these families, spinning lurid and whole ficitious tales of animal and human sacrifice, of babies being microwaved and eaten and of children having fingers amputated, to the Police, stories which came rather unstuck when the Police, as they are wont to do, raised the trivial little matter of corroborating evidence.
There was, of course, none.
Still, undeterred, the social workers proceeded to take the matter to family court in an effort to have these children permanantly removed from their families – only for their case to be systematically destroyed in court.
If this all carries with it a sense of horrific familiarty, then yes, it does resemble the basic plot of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'.
This was, of course, accompanied by the usual media furore, which the same newspapers that had stirred the moral panic in the first place, regaling Rochdale Council with every ounce of hypocritical venom they could muster. There was the obligatory sacrifical scapegoat – the Director of Social Services resigned – children were returned to their families, internal inquiries were held and training policies and good practice guidelines revised.
And the bureacratic hivemind did what it does best – closed ranks, battened down ther hatches and waited for it all to be forgotten.
But the story doesn't end there.
Not all the children were returned were returned to their families.
Instead the, first family to be investigated; to have their children taken away by Police and social services in dawn raids, were left in limbo. They weren't abusers – and certainly not Satanic abusers – so now, in the eyes of the same Social Services department, they had 'poor parenting skills' and 'too much debt'; they were just too poor and too stupid to be trusted to care for their own children and so those children remained in care – in the case of one of them for 10 years during which time access visits from his family were reduced from one hour a month to one hour a year. This was 'justified' by social services on the grounds that these visits were distressing and difficult for the child.
If you've dealt with bureaucracies for long enough you'll recognise instantly what happened here. Bureaucracies are never wrong and never make mistakes. Even if proven wrong, there is always some other reason, some other set of grounds on which they are right, something that the people who proved them wrong missed or didn't take into account, something which justifies them continuing on a course of action that, once set, brooks no deviation.
Nearly 16 years on, 12 of the 20 children who were snatched from their parents by officialdom in 1990 are taking legal action against Rochdale Council.
Why? Damages, yes – and who can blame them. But with that they also want an apology from Rochdale Council – a straightforward, formal apology, something that the council has never once, in 16 years, had the courtesy to offer to the children. To the parents, yes, but not the kids whose lives were blighted by bureaucratic and professional incompetence.
In fact, Rochdale Council, together with the two social workers whose blind zeal created this whole sorry mess in the first place, even went to court to try to prevent the programme being shown, the main body of the injuction sought being based primarily on the objections of the two social workers on the grounds that:
1. Social workers as public servants working in a confidential environment should be protected by a cloak of anonymity save where there has been dishonesty or bad faith;
2. They support open public debate and do not oppose the making of the documentary;
3. They left the local authority's employment as a matter of personal choice not in consequence of the judgment and have both in their different ways gone on to considerable professional success elsewhere;
4. Their professional competence has not been called into question since the judgment;
5. Their Article 8 rights are engaged and having regard to the nature and extent of the agreed disclosure the maintenance of their anonymity is a proportionate restraint whereas the publication of their identities would add so little of value that it would be a disproportionate interference;
6. They both fear:
a) A negative impact on their professional standing with colleagues and families with whom they now work;
b) A negative impact on future career prospects (I deliberately do not enlarge on this issue because it would tend to identify the social workers present professional activities and the BBC has undertaken not to reveal their present employments but I stress that I have considered the detail of that which is set out in the affidavits that have been sworn);
c) The possibility of an unfair or inaccurate portrayal of them including by any failure to consider the actions of others with whom it is asserted they acted at the time (e.g. management representatives);
d) Intrusive media interest;
e) Harassment and/or behaviour from others towards themselves or their families that they would regard as threatening;
f) A seriously detrimental emotional impact (described as enormous) upon their closest relatives, including children who do not know of their past involvement with this case and parents who are elderly.
The full ruling in the case can be found here and is well worth reading out of general interest in human right law and practice even if you have no real interest in the specifics of this case.
There are two points in the application and grounds for injunction stated by the two social workers that I specifically want to address.
First there is this:
Save where there is dishonesty or bad faith? So the public has the right, in their opinion, to know if a public servant is dishonest, deceitful or wilfully negligent but not if they are merely incompetent, irrespective of the consequences of that incompetence.
No. That cannot be correct. not when there are matters of professional competence at stake.
This leads, however, naturally to this:
Indeed both are still social workers and both, according the programme, still work in child protection.
Now while they may well have learned, and learned well from their mistakes of 16 years ago and may be all the better professionals for it, to find that they left Rochdale Council by choice and for reasons unrelated to this case, to continue and develop their respective careers elsewhere seems to me to be the clearest possible evidence that there has been no real accountability, and therefore no real justice in this matter.
There may have been the obligatory scapegoating of the Director of Social Services at the time, but if these two social workers, whose actions were central to this case, can apparently walk away and continue their lives without having been subject – it appears – to any substantive sanctions – let alone others whose failings in this matter may be manifest but whose identities remain a secret – then justice has not been done.
Because accountability, ultimately, is just a function of justice, which is why it is something that the bureaucratic hivemind is so keen to avoid at all costs.
Oops, almost forgot.
The two social workers – their names are Jill France and Susan Hammersley.
Further to my cautionary note on libel, The Times helpfully notes the opinions of Professor Elizabeth Newson (second page), one of the expert witnesses in this case:
Elizabeth Newson, a professor of developmental psychology, was drafted in as an expert witness for the court case. She quickly noted the "poor standards
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being placed on the sex offenders register for accessing child pronography does not automatically, as most people reasonably assumed, result in the offenders being added to the DfEE's 'List 99'
I'm not at all happy with the way this story is being presented. Firstly, we don't know what (if anything) Reeve actually did, or whether his Web surfing habits had any bearing on anything he was ever likely to try and do with another person; we don't even know whether he was supposed to be into boys or girls. I assume that most paedophiles do have a preference. I don't know about you, but at my school a male PE teacher hanging around the girls' showers would have got some very strange looks.
Secondly, we don't know why the police offered him a caution him instead of prosecuting – did the strength of the evidence had something to do with it? Thirdly, we don't know why he accepted the caution. In most cases anyone who thought that the evidence against him or her wasn't good enough to convict could be expected to refuse a caution, but paedophilia isn't 'most cases' – it's the kind of mud that will stick. Nor do we know what the police told him about being put on the Sex Offenders' Register. Did they tell him it would stop him ever working with children again? I imagine not.
Fourthly, we don't know what the school thought about it all. I've read variously that Reeve told them he was on the SO Register and that the DfES told them so; either way, if they'd wanted to turn him away on those grounds they had the opportunity. But they gave him a job – which he kept until the local police said… well, (fifthly) said what? "Told you he was on the Register, did he? Well, what he didn't tell you…" Is this something they should be doing?
Maybe I'm just over-reacting and instinctively bashing the police and defending the criminal and all those things us wet liberals do. But it doesn't seem obvious to me that a police caution for a sex offence should be automatic grounds for List 99 – and it doesn't seem obvious that the DfES have actually done anything wrong here.
Apologies for sullying an obviously heart felt piece of writing, but I thought I should alert you to another formatting thingy; text on the right hand side of the main column seems to slowly disappear so that by the time I get to the bottom of the page (or the piece, if it is a long one like this) one or two words from the beginning of each line vanished. Thought you should know.
Unity says:
Just needed to specify the width of blockquotes fo IE's crappy renderer.
laban says:
Rochdale is by no means the only case. Take a look at the Broxtowe files to see what a social worker can believe ..
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dlheb/jetrepor2.htm
"The neighbours do maintain that the family used to frequently return from the pub and continued 'parties' with a lot of shouting and swearing.
Despite this the social workers have accepted that the family were having witch parties at which sheep were being slaughtered in the front room or the back garden and the front garden and were subsequently left in the garages in wheelie bins, that abortions were committed in the front room, that more than eight witches danced around singing in the front room, that later one of the children had her stomach cut open on a table in the front room and that [Mary] witnessed seven children being killed along with acts of cannibalism. We do not consider that the belief that this could be kept secret matches basic commonsense or reality. Outside of the babies and the children, sheep are large, noisy, difficult animals and when one was slaughtered by an Indian on a council estate in Leicester it hit the national newspaper headlines the following day. In our view another explanation has to be sought. "
Laban:
While doing a bit of background reading on the Rochdale case I found several references to their having been of the order of 80 cases during the period of the satanic abuse panic where children were removed by social workers – Orkney was another.
In not one of those cases was any of the allegations of ritual abuse substantiated, on which basis I think the obvious comparisons to Salem stand up as accurate.
Having seen the video footage in the programme, what I hope is that part of the case being brought by those caught up in the Rochdale case is based on a claim that their article 3 rights (prevention of torture) were violated, so psychologically abusive was some of what I saw.


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1. Artesian Venture Partners will fund up to 1000 startups over the next five years through its various deals with BlueChilli and a number of other incubators and universities. Today, Artesian finalised an arrangement with advisory firm KPMG to analyse the tech ecosystem and commercialise the data. All the details about the deal are here.
2. Xero is for startups too. The cloud-accounting company is launching its very own startup program, partnering with incubator Fishburners to help emerging Australian businesses. More here.
3. NBN Co is preparing to complete one of Australia's largest ever debt raisings. Worth $11.6 billion, NBN Co said in its 2014-2017 corporate plan released on Monday that it had held "discussions with a number of major domestic and international financial institutions". If it can't raise the money, construction could be halted until it fills an $11.5 billion funding gap. It's all here.
4. Facebook is secretly working on a professional website which could spell trouble for LinkedIn. Although it's not so secret – there are already about 8,000 people using the network called Facebook At Work. How it works in the professional world is detailed here.
5. Elon Musk has been ranting about killer robots again. "The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe," Musk said. It's all here.


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than there is of my future ahead of me?
Jesus, my saviour, knew that feeling, I think.
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A fellow victim of time?
At least, a subject of time, bound by its rules.
Hardly as old as I am.
Half my age, His time was running out.
Time leaks away, as lifeblood from a relentlessly-dripping wound.
– the physical, materially-created universe.
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Other things will possibly happen . . .
Yes! This next line happened!
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South Sound coast plans not supported by UDP
(CNS): Plans to cut a canal through the South Sound road to link the in-land element of the Emerald Sound development to the ocean have reportedly failed to win the support of the government's political supporters. Burns Conolly, the spokesperson for RC Estates Ltd, the Caymanian company behind the project, said Thursday that he understood government was not going to approve the coastal works licence application but that the developer had not yet received official confirmation that it would not be considered by Cabinet, as is the normal process for developments encroaching on the ocean.
Undeterred by the latest news regarding that element of the development, Conolly said the developer was still looking forward to breaking ground on the landside of the development in the near future.
The local architect said that RC Estates learned from a report in Thursday's Caymanian Compass that the current government had made a decision not to complete the application process for the offshore excavation due to a decision by their political caucus.
"We appreciate the decision the lawmakers faced when coming to this conclusion and will wait for the official confirmation from them," he stated. "It became increasingly difficult for the developer to counter the opposition to the project when the objectors continued down the route of misinformation. However, RC Estates remains excited about the potential this property holds and hope to break ground in the near future."
The controversial development stirred up considerable opposition in the area over fears about the possible impact, during periods of bad weather, if a canal was cut from the Sound through to the inland element, as well as the environmental damage that would be caused. Objectors also stated that to allow such a development would cause a dangerous precedent and open the gate to the dredging of channels in other highly sensitive areas, such as the West Bay Road. The proposal to create inland canals, move the South Sound Road and create a bridge over the canal were all significant concerns to the objectors.
The campaign to fight the development fell at the planning hurdle when the inland project was given planning permission. However, the objectors had hoped to persuade government not to grant the coastal works license, a decision made by Cabinet, preventing the channel being cut through the road, which was the prime cause of the opposition.
Speaking on behalf of the objectors, Katrina Jurn, one of the people who had spearheaded the campaign, stated that they were very pleased by the news that the coastal works license would not be approved and said common sense had prevailed in protecting this area of immense environmental and cultural significance.
"It is very encouraging that the UPD government has listened to the concerns of the thousands of Caymanians and residents who voiced their objection to the development," she said.
The campaign had generated over 2,200 formal written objections to the development, which Jurn said made it one of, if not the most, formally objected to developments in the history of the Cayman Islands.
"Objectors' main concerns were the dredging of the Sound, cutting of canals, movement of South Sound Road and the building a bridge over the road which the development called for," she explained. "We are confident that the petitioners will be overjoyed at this news."
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Maybe if the choice of real estate company to market the property…..
Yeah, there must have been some SERIOUS discussions re listing agent.
I hope nobody is so stupid to believe that this is the full truth and the end to this soap opera!
Strangers in the Night says:
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? You mean to tell me that money was an issue? Maybe there was no agreement on the amount!
That plus you have at least three different real estate listing agents in the mix.
This decision is good news for Cayman's environment, but would mean more if the decision was handed down through the appropriate channels. It's a bit suspect and leaves the door open to some future appeal if and when a more amicable regime takes power. We need to arrive at the same decisions, now and forever through appropriate policy. If the UDP really feel that they should now protect the environment, let's see that environmental protection bill passed…
Oh don't worry, if DART says no, it's no. Go deh Mr. President ofthe Cayman Islands show 'em who BOSS.
Young people take note. They say money can't buy you happiness, but I tell yah wha. It can by you an Island!
I don't see or hear of much happiness on this island. All I seem to hear is people attacking other people because they don't agree.
It would surprise me if Dart really cared much about the Emerald Sound development.
What if this change of mind in regard to the Emerald Sound project was based upon the even bigger project of turning south sound into a cruise ship terminal?
It would be ironic if the south sound voices that rail roaded the Emerald Sound development only to have an even bigger and more invasive project to be built in their back yard.
I agree with the ship captains who have put this idea forward and believe that it will limit potential downside to a single area. There is too much risk to 7 mile beach andspending 100s of millions toward a dock that is not useable full time makes no sense. The additional concern of what dredging would do to the sand movement along 7 mile beach is another concern of mine.
The damage in this project would be limited to one area and although it is a sacrifice it is necessary for the betterment of the country.
I understand the South Sound voices will attack me for this opinion but the country as a whole needs to make the decision not just the loud voices of South Sound.
This country needs to make these tough decisions and instead of personal attacks I would appreciate explanations of disagreement.
My BIG questions of the day are:
How can ALT publicly endorse one developer DART/For Cayman Alliance and remain as Chairman of the CPA? This seems to automatically mean that anything coming thru for the FCA is going to be passed by CPA or is "pre-approved" by the Chairman of CPA.
Also, is ALT going to publicly endorse any otehr developments while he is also Chairman of the CPA?
Cherry Picker says:
Stop looking trouble! This article doesn't mention ALT or the CPA or even the DART/For Cayman Alliance. Perhaps you have inside knowledge or an outside source?!
There are none so blind as those who choose not to see..
Knot S Smart says:
So are you trying to say that it isa 'major' Conflict of Interest if the 'major' construction materials supplier, is also the head of a Govt board that approves 'major' construction projects, and then he publicly endorses a 'major' developer for a 'major' construction project?
What on God's earth would make you think that this is a 'major' conflict of interest?
Sir, don't you know that this country is becomming a Republic of Banana.
Anonomous says:
As the For Cayman Alliance agreement is NOT a decision of Central Planning Authority or even planning there IS no conflict here. Think before you blog or if you thought stop trying to cause trouble. It's your livelihood also.
Dart kept over 1500 people employed from 2005-2009. In that period not one other major development started. If he was not here we would have been in recession long before now.
Don't the proposed development(s) in the FCA fall under the remit of CPA?
As for the 1500 ppl, my thanks. How can we get more into work without taking extremes like closing our roads?
OH please!!! The only reason why UDP don't support it is because election is coming up and they want to get voted back in.
You REAP what You SOW!
The developer got what he deserved when he tried to railroad the system by convincing Planning to put the project on the agenda BEFORE the Coastal License was granted, which had never happened before, was a breach of the guidelines given Planning and a ground for appeal…
It's like putting the cart before the horses…
Perhaps, a Planning officer can now explain to us how that happened. If not, an official enquiry should take place to find out what pressures were applied by whom in order to get on the agenda…
Then, without even waiting for the grantal of the Coastal license, the developer arrogantly applied to NRA to take over OUR South Sound road in exchange for a similar sized piece of swamp, thus increasing the depth of his shallow seafront lots and adding many millions to their value…
The developer got what he deserved and the thousands of objectors who spent a great deal of time and money to fight this unwelcomed scheme ultimately won the day!…
Burns Conolly AIA says:
For clarity, the guidelines for Coastal Works permission before landside approval is only applicable where there is a MANGROVE BUFFER or STORM buffer.
Neither buffer zone exists outside the North Sound, anywhere in the Cayman Islands. In fact Little Cayman and Cayman Brac does not even have planning zones of any kind.
As it stands, Emerald Sound has full planning permission for all works landside of its coastal boundaries. The developer can proceed with all works onshore therefore. The Government's apparent decision only halts the excavation in the sound.
well said burns…. i can only imagine your frustration……
If CNS will allow it, I would like to repeat Burn's statement as published in the Compass.
Contacted for a response, Emerald Sound's chief architect Burns Conolly said, "No comment. Other than I do realise elections are upcoming. End of comment."
As someone who is opposed to the dredging I am very concerned that the project was not denied, but instead put on hold. I have no doubt that this project, and many others, will be given a green light if the backers are willing to put up sufficient funds to guarantee the election of enough people who see no wrong in performing political favours for money.
It's sad but true that in Cayman if you have enough money you can get whatever you want. I can only hope that, as we can see happening in Turks and Caicos, these people also get what they deserve.
Da CUC Legacy says:
What a bii%*@ lick for somebodeeeee, Feel the heat in ya draws seat and as the song goes somebody done somebody wrong some simple put Tooo darn greedy tooo darn greedy .Some people same to think they have the right to do as they like to Cayman all the time.
the developer should demand a written explanation from the government….. and then proceed to sue them!….what is the point of having a planning board????
This stinks. Burns is UDP. If I am not mistaken so is the developer.
Lets go back a couple weeks.
Emerald Sound is going ahead.
Cayman's sea Captains declare South Sound as the best sopt for a cruise bertingfacility.
Mac goes to China to discuss amongst "other things" the development of a cruise berthiing facility with CHEC.
Mac returns, Emerald Sound is put on HOLD.
MOU's are due to expire.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Just for the record, I am not a member of the UDP or PPM and have never been a member of either. In fact, to date neither party has even asked me if I would consider becoming a member. If I were UDP it would not be logical that the UDP government would reject 'my' project based on your narrow thought pattern, surely.
In my election run, I never mentioned those 6 party letters once. I did not mention those parties as a supporter of either nor as an objector. There are positions of both 'groups' that I support and that is how it should be until both mature to have an identifiable philosophical position.
After the last 4 elections I wrote all the governments offering my expertise and service. You can ask PPM that and you can ask UDP that. Both sets of Ministers, in 2005 and in 2009, responded to me. And before that the politicians of the day did as well. This is what we all should do instead of every four years breaking down what the other person has done, writing silly blogs and being a continuously negative drain on society.
We Caymanians should really consider thinking of Country first. Not one "tribe" or the other. I have seen this flag-waving scenario destroy many Caribbean countries and it is becoming a problem here.
Just because one party suggests something should mean that itis automatically rejected by the other party. It makes no sense for 32,000 people to split up our limited resources/expertise into a couple of "tribes" and fight and therefore not achieve anything for anyone. That is how the colonial rule worked and controlled many countries, as you can see from history.
Lets take this country forward. We have a great base to work from.
As for the cruise port reference, Red Bay is superior technically for the port. That's obvious to anyone that looks at the points. The Sea Captains have said they do not care who builds it nor owns it. In fact, they suggest that the current MoU with CHEC is used to execute it so not sure where you were going with those last comments. see "www.caymancruiseport.com" for the relevant information.
R.U. Kidden says:
Are you some kind of nut???
Pam :)) says:
Good news! The critics will try to make this into a PPM – UDP thing, but no matter the party, I am on the people's side on this one. Cayman does not need dredging and destruction of its shoreline. Over 2200people oppose it. The people of South Sound have spoken – LISTEN TO THEM. THAT IS DEMOCRACY.
The dredging downtown will be 148 times the volume of that proposed south sound. It will likely kill cheeseburger reef, Eden rock and has potential for disrupting the seven mile beach. It will destroy the CALI wreck habitat and end snorkeling In the region. As the ships are closer to shore the new port ENDS recreational uses in hog Sty bay. More material will be removed in GT the first two days of dredging than in the entire south sound project.
If Emerald Sound was about the ENVIRONMENT where are the objectors to the cruise port downtown???
Think folks and don't be used.
where are you getting your information from?
This is absolute wrong and total fabrication of gross missinformation.
GT has 1/80th of the dredging or Emeral Port in South Sound.
Huh? says:
Did Economics & Statistic Dept provide this? Where are you getting the bologne from? I'd rather them dredge South Sound (where you can hardly find a conch) than 7 Mile Beach!!!! We can't risk that beauty for anything!!
McCarron McLaughlin says:
Very interesting that the developer would come this far and get railroaded like that.
I'd call that the result of political scaremongering!
Its his own fault.
The people of South Sound and Cayman have made thier strong objection to this development clearly known time and time again. Year after year. If this developer was a gentleman he would have been moved by these people's pleas to not have thier community drastically altered for the worse (or at least realise its in his long term interest and in the interest of his reputation to not so deeply upset so many people in his own community) – and have adjusted his plan ie develop the land without canals, a bridge, dredging or moving road the road.
He also tried to circumvent policy and procedure by pushing the CPA to hear his application before the Coastal Works License was heard by Cabinet – in order to pressure Cabinet to approve the CWL. This is in any case what seems to have been the strategy. There is a long standing policy that CWL is considered before CPA consideration. This was the FIRST case ever where the CPA decided before Cabinet had conisdered the CWL.
I am proud of our Government for still making the right decision! (Note: This may be the first time I have been proud of them. Not a UDP – or PPM fan)
another step backwards for cayman…… the planning board should now resign if their decisions can overturned for unkown reasons of the udp caucuas…….
C.W. says:
It's about time they stand up for something. But I am a bit dissappointed with the elected members for George Town on the Opposition's side.
– silence –
I guess Joe tired them out
It's most disrespectful for the developer to find out from reading the newspaper rather than a simple phone call, whatever your views on the project. Whatever happened to common courtesy, UDP?
Da wa he get!!
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