It was with some surprise to find the National Roads Authority (NRA) closed part of the West Bay Road on Wednesday (9).

This was in preparation for construction work on the eastbound side of the road.

My inquiries, and confirmed by another media house, were that the eastbound lane was expected to be closed on Thursday (10). This will mean all traffic will be made to travel along two narrow lanes on the westbound side.

Presumably this is in order to work on the junction for the Esterley Tibbetts Highway extension and the permanent closure of the West Bay Road.

What irks me is that the NRA didn’t bother to inform anyone of the construction work taking place so that road users could take the alternative route and/or plan getting out on the road earlier. Someone in the NRA knew this was to happen but no prior word was given out to the media so that we could advise.

HALLO NRA!! THERE IS GOING TO BE A DISRUPTION TO TRAFFIC!!!

Shouldn’t we have been warned? You are civil servants – our servants. You work for us as we pay your salary.

But it doesn’t matter. We don’t matter. Less we are told. Less we have time to complain.

As far as I am aware Dart and the NRA signed only a preliminary agreement under the ForCayman Investment Alliance. If they had signed the main deal it was done in secret and the terms of the main deal are secret.

I hate secrets when we know someone has secrets that affect me.

Any sympathies with Dart on the road closure/land swapping deal, and originally being on the ForCayman Investment Alliance side, is rapidly evaporating.

I have a feeling we have all been sold a few turkeys and this deal is a lot further ahead than we have been informed. What penalties have been secretly nailed in place payable to Dart if the deal is not honoured?

Would Dart have really bought a non beachfront property unless it was to become most certainly a beachfront property?

Something is beginning to smell. I am very dubious Dart and the NRA would be embarking on all this work upon a handshake and a preliminary agreement.

Then there is that question over the legality of the vesting of crown land? I wouldn’t mind a bet that that question has already been argued and settled. Would you bet on which side I have placed my money?

When something is closed that is supposedly not yet been decided, work commenced costing plenty of dollars by both developer and government, it’s been decided.