Bo Miller in the race for North Side seat

Bo Miller, Independent
candidate for North Side

Thursday,  March 17, 2005

Declaring, “North Side needs help, we have been adrift for too long,” Bo Miller threw himself into the race for election to political office in North Side.

Financier, accountant and entrepreneur, Mr Miller has maintained throughout the course of his campaign three primary areas of interest - care for the elderly, management of the district and enhancement of our tourism product.

“Now, after Hurricane Ivan, these problems seemed to have moved closer – affecting all our lives in a far greater way. Additionally a few more problems have been uncovered with the passage of the hurricane,” Mr Miller added.

In relation to his focus on the elderly and the creation of an Assisted Living Centre for senior citizens, Mr Miller said, “Our aim should be to bring the elderly together in a clean, comfortable, familiar setting within the community they helped to build. We can then preserve their dignity, their history and their knowledge for the betterment of our community. Our young people can visit and assist them and, at the same time, learn things from them that they cannot learn from the television.”

Mr Miller made a commitment that should he be elected, the electorate would have a ground breaking for a facility for the elderly, located in North Side, within 12 months.

Mr Miller has also proposed the establishment of the North Side District Management Council. “The management of our playfield, Civic Centre and other common areas will be done by our own Council to ensure the employment of our own young men for the cutting of grass and other chores as well as ensuring that fees for the use of the Centre are collected and managed within the district,” he said.

Mr Miller has also promised to give a much-needed focus to the marine environment that is being exploited. Mr Miller also said, “The Kaibo beach that is being eroded seems of no consequence to the Department of Environment to whose attention I have brought this fact many times.”

Mr Miller said that he would see to the utilization of school facilities in the evenings “to bring the young and the old together to learn.”

Explaining that improvements in district management would result in benefits to the tourism sector activities in the district, Mr Miller said, “Everyone in North Side has a stake in our tourism.” 

Mr Miller promised to put his years of experience in the industry to work in the interest of North Side and Cayman Islands as a whole.

In the past Mr Miller had structured a financial package to buy the failed Paradise Manor to help resuscitate the economy, and start up Treasure Island Resort. In 2000, he chaired the subcommittee for Tourism Entertainment and Culture during the Development Planning Review and was a member of the Tourism Action Committee. In 2001 he chaired the Tourism Economic Committee and in 2002 he founded the North Coast Tourism Council.

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