Dear Sir,

In response to Yvane Dixon’s letter of 16th September 2009 (“Cayman Brac college needs to stay”), a UCCI physical campus with a physical teacher would be great revenue for Cayman Brac, because I am sure that many parents abroad would send their children to the Cayman Islands, especially to safe Cayman Brac for a college education.

If government ensures that the abroad students find the class fees affordable compared to their own country college fees (remember these students would be paying a higher class fees because they would be considered non-resident students). Government please don’t out-price ourselves, when we are known for being an expensive country to visit.

Government should ensure that they themselves offer dorms for freshmen by leasing apartment buildings from the locals, not government building dorms. Government, please allow Cayman Brac’s economy to revive, not the government gain revenue.

Then sophomores and up to graduates would be able to locate one’s own rental from the locals on Cayman Brac. Investors, please allow the locals a chance to make an honest day’s pay by providing rentals. The various government departments that oversee rentals and building projects can ensure that existing rentals are consumed before new building projects are approved. Even then, the existing landowners should be grandfathered in to be approved first for a building project before an outside investor.

Most important, government and locals, please don’t turn Cayman Brac into a college bar town, please exercise wisdom by forcing these college students to purchase plane tickets on Cayman Airways for a weekend in Grand Cayman or Miami. This will increase ticket sales for Cayman Airways and not destroy Cayman Brac.

The Liquor Board will have to ensure that new liquor licences for Cayman Brac has a freeze as of now and the existing liquor licences is the set cap for Cayman Brac. Example: presently there may be five liquor licences issued at this present moment, this is the bases for the cap of five liquor licences only for Cayman Brac. For a new liquor licence to be issued then it comes with the purchase of the establishment or is returned to the Liquor Licensing Board for re-issue.

The locals and Government should support Yvane Dixon in her plight to keep UCCI in Cayman Brac, as well as, take this opportunity to bring an economy to Cayman Brac and revenue to government.

Edith Solomon