On CITN-Cayman27’s “The Panel” programme last Tuesday (10) MLA Ellio Soloman, who is leading the negotiations with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build a cruise berthing facility in George Town, admitted there is a proposal on the table to build a pier at Pageant Beach by an unnamed cruise line on land at Pageant Beach.

Solomon said that the cruise line’s proposal was to construct a pier for its exclusive use.

In January CNC reported that representatives of the local company that owns the land at Pageant Beach said they were very surprised to read about any proposal to develop a port on that property as the owner had not been approached by anyone regarding the development of a port there and the land was not for sale. This was when the same media house had revealed that a proposal for an all-weather facility with no competing retail that would deliver passengers around one mile north of the current terminals and shuttle them into the down town area had been presented to the government.

Solomon admitted government was not going forward with the Pageant Beach proposal or any others. They were only going forward with CHEC.