The Coalition to Keep Bodden Town Dump Free has an impressive amount of backers. Public opinion seems to be swinging their way.  The two previous United Democratic Party MLA’s, Mark Scotland and Cline Glidden, who had supported the Dart Group’s proposal to relocate Grand Cayman’s landfill to Bodden Town, are now lukewarm to the project. In fact Cline Glidden is definitely on frozen side of cold and has stated he was never for it in the first place.

Pardon me for asking why he kept quiet until now?

Scotland has a major problem. He actually publicly campaigned for it on more than one occasion, including doing many of the presentations.

Ex premier McKeeva’s Bush’s deputy premier and now Cayman’s premier has distanced herself from it.

The Coalition refused to meet privately with the writers of the recent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study, Cardno-Entrix (CE), calling it a sham and they did not want to legitimize it behind closed doors.

They didn’t legitimize publicly either, neither did any of the three Bodden Town MLA’s, nor the ones running for election, including Charles Clifford, who is a leading member of the Coalition.

None of these persons were present at the Bodden Town Civic Centre last Wednesday (17) when Dart and Cardno Entrix company officials presented the Bodden Town residents with a chance to comment on the Waste Management Facility proposed in their back yard.

Neither were there many other Bodden Town residents there. 25 persons was an easy number to count.

One would have thought, if you were so opposed to a project you would want to be there and ask questions that would presumably have been difficult for Dart and Cardno to answer without digging themselves a very big hole, enough to bury themselves in once and for all.

But, no, they don’t show up.

And there was one very interesting tidbit of information that did come out of the meeting.

Dart never completed their negotiations with government as to what exactly and how much they would be providing for the landfill project verses how much government was going to build.

The three week time limit to assess a document that is 1,887 pages long is ridiculous but if the civic center had been filled to overflowing it would have shown just how ridiculous.

To any outside impartial person it would seem that no one really cares whether it is built or not in Bodden Town. The Coalition is just a faceless non-entity. A picture paints a thousand words and the picture the Bodden Towner’s presented on Wednesday does not support there claimed strong and angry condemnation of the Waste Management Facility in their back yard.

It’s so easy to shout, to cry, to demand answers (only the ones we want to hear though as we won’t listen to anything else) but to actually show up in person? Heaven forbid. No!