Save Our Seven Mile Beach

We at the Caymanian Times have always been very clear on where we stand when it comes to our core values. We are steadfast in our belief that our environment is something so precious and so easily spoilt that it is worth fighting for, so we are launching a new series focussing on stories that promote the protection of Cayman’s natural world. If you have any campaigns, news, events, ideas or activities geared towards saving and protecting our environment, then please get in touch with us at news@caymaniantimes.ky  and we will be happy to feature them in the newspaper.

We begin this series in this edition with a story from the environmental group, Protect Our Future, which is worried about the serious erosion at the southern end of Seven Mile Beach. They encourage our government to take the big, brave steps it needs in order to attempt to remediate this crucial issue. They believe that a managed retreat of Seven Mile Beach is the only solution, whereby properties which have been built too close to the coastline and which are exacerbating the coastal erosion are moved back. They say that the current measurement of the highwater mark is not a sufficient marker for working out how far back a development needs to be from the shoreline because of the extent to which the highwater mark changes over time. New developments along Seven Mile Beach in the pipeline should therefore abide by tougher new calculations that mean their development won’t make the coastal erosion even worse. To this end, they have launched a campaign called Coastal Development Erodes Our Future. Expect to hear more on this in future editions of our newspaper.

As a responsible news house, we believe it is our duty to highlight these issues so they can be properly discussed by everyone who shares a love for these Islands, as we do.  We intend to do our part in ensuring environmental issues are kept at the forefront of discussions in the Cayman Islands and we encourage our readers to join us in this endeavour.