Our Plans

A Dart-led consortium has been chosen as the preferred bidder for the proposed Integrated Solid Waste Management System (ISWMS) to be implemented in the Cayman Islands.

ISWMS will replace the current landfill in George Town, which is nearing the end of its life.

The new system is expected to process and divert up to 95 per cent of waste from being landfilled in the future. It is to be operated as a public-private partnership, with the successful consortium awarded the contract on a “design, build, finance, operate and maintain” basis.

The Department of Environmental Health will continue to provide waste management collection services for ISWMS.

Ground-breaking is expected this summer for a phased implementation of the new waste management system, with the aim to have it fully operational by 2021.

ISWMS will include the closure, capping and remediation of the current landfills on Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands, with recycling, composting and a waste-to-energy approach at the heart of the new operations.

Plans for a cluster of cottages to be developed as a residential mental health facility have been approved by the Central Planning Authority.

Built across 15 acres in East End, the facility will include nine cottages, each capable of housing six patients and a central building for administration, dining and activities. It will also feature an orchard and vegetable garden.

The planning approval is a major step forward for the $10-million project which has been in the pipeline for several years. It will provide residential care in the Cayman Islands for mental health patients for the first time. Currently, mental health patients in need of long-term care are sent overseas, usually to Jamaica.

The $55 million dollar expansion and renovation project for the Owen Roberts International Airport is expected to be complete by the end of 2018.

We are now well into phase 2 and the opening of the new Arrivals Hall in mid-January was another milestone. 

The end of April saw a section of the new Departures Hall open, once complete it will have nine departure gates. 

Construction will continue to complete the Departure Hall, an enlarged Security Screening Checkpoint, new Immigration administrative area, a children’s play area, food court and new retail stores.

When finished, the airport will be able to handle the increase in air arrivals that are forecast for the next 25 years and will give Cayman an airport that we can be proud of.