The African Expat

I think I have spoken about this before, but the pace of development here on Grand Cayman is absolutely staggering, especially for such a small little rock of an island. But I guess that fast track development is just a part of what the world is today. It actually got me thinking that every facet of our lives is affected by fast track development, whether it is the internet, cell phones, broadcasting (CNN recently had a “beam me up Scottie” type of news presentation during the Presidential elections and I had to say “wow”), sports, cars… the list goes on and on.

I reckon that if one had to go to jail a couple of centuries for about 50 years, one could come out and easily find their way around. But nowadays if you were to be absent from the world for just one year, by the time you resurface, you would be so lost that you would have to spend the rest of your natural life in some sort of therapy.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Everywhere you go on island, you will come across large construction sites, tipper trucks and a large contingent of expat construction workers. Typically most of the development has been happening around the George Town, Seven Mile Beach, West Bay and South Sound areas but I hear from my friend in the real estate industry that the beautiful, untouched East End is next.