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Mobile Voting Kicks Off
Just over one week until the general election… our Mark Westin is outside the George Town Elections Office with an update on mobile voting.
Fifteen hundred voters registered and began the voting process today in the Bodden Town districts, Prospect, Newlands and Savannah.
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Manifesto watch: Parties promise public transport, but who can deliver?
It’s before 6am on a weekday morning and the traffic is already backed up as far as Bodden Town. Parents squint at the blurred taillights blinking in the pre-dawn dark as sleepy-eyed school children doze in the back seat. At the side of the road, uniformed workers wait in hope, rather than expectation, for a mini-bus.
This is rush hour in Cayman – a slow, grinding, slog that serves as a daily reminder of how the island’s infrastructure, traffic management and transport policy has failed to keep pace with its growth.
There were 50,865 registered vehicles on the road last year – an increase from just under 38,000 at the time of the last election in 2021. Traffic was a problem then; it is an even bigger issue now.
