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LOST AT SEA Cruise industry reaches “point of no return”
Hurricane path uncertain Page 9
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Tad Stoner
Pronouncing the local cruise industry “dead”, Robert Hamaty director and founder of a privatesector tourism association, said yesterday Cayman’s competition had already triumphed, leaving George Town fatally crippled. “It’s a fact,” he told iNews. “It has reached the point of no return. Our situation here is like the 1950s when we used canoes to tender ships in North Sound. “We are so backward that everyone has jumped on the cruise bandwagon,” Mr Hamaty said, citing four ports in Mexico; two in Roatan, Honduras; Jamaican giant Falmouth; the Dominican Republic and “even Haiti has just announced one,” he said, where Royal Caribbean would invest $50 million, including a hotel, enabling visitors to spend between three days and four days, and “catch the next ship back”.
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Rooftop protest at school Paul Kennedy paul.kennedy@ieyenews.com
A disgruntled construction worker staged a one-man rooftop protest sparking a police operation. The man climbed on top of a two
storey building in Bodden Town and refused to come down. Police say reports that he threatened to torch the school were way off the mark and no accelerant was found. Continued on page 4
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