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East End hotel site might benefit from Shetty hospital
(CNS): The site that was originally planned to be the location for a proposed Mandarin Oriental resort in East End is on the market for $18million and the real estate agent says it could be close to the Shetty hospital. JC Calhoun of Coldwell Banker says that the beach front plot, which is over nineteen acres in total, along the Queens Highway is a bank forced sale. “This land will likely not be far from the new 2,000 bed medical complex. It is a prime property normally not available,” Calhoun writes on the real estate website.
It was almost six years ago that the international hotel brand announced that it would be managing an exclusive hideaway resort designed for sophisticated travellers in search of “tranquillity, serenity and luxury”, with 114 “lavish guest rooms and suites” on the unspoiled site known as Barefoot Beach. The resort was planned to be developed by a company called Barefoot Resorts, Ltd, which was described at the time as a private investment company formed by G. Stuart Wood and Jeffrey J. Cotter, based in Naples, Florida, and Naul Bodden of Grand Cayman.
Calhoun, who is now selling the prime plot, told CNS that he did not know the location of the hospital, but based on the desires of the group he believed it would be close to this hotel site, making it an even more attractive proposition.
Gene Thompson, who has been working with Dr Devi Shetty to help get the proposed hospital project off the ground, also confirmed to CNS that a site has not yet been chosen, despite wide speculation that it may be in East End. Thompson noted it wasn’t the first time that those in the real estate business had used the proposed hospital and the speculation about the site to help boost sales but he said no one knew where the hospital would be because it still had not been settled. He did, however, say it wouldn’t be long before a decision would be made and announcements about the next steps in the project revealed.
The legislation that Dr Shetty said was required in order to make the development of the health city in Cayman feasible is in the process of being created. The changes to the health practitioner’s bill were passed in the last session of the Legislative Assembly and government will be brining a new piece of legislation to deal with the cap on medical compensation claims when the LA resumes on Wednesday.
In the case of the last change that Shetty requires to facilitate organ and tissue transplant and donation, a committee was recently established under the chairmanship of backbench UDP MLA Elio Solomon to examine what type of legislation would be required and to begin drafting that law.