June 15, 2025 • 11 mins
Why Cayman Islanders Voted against a massive cruise ship pier is a rare and powerful story of reef protection over profit. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, Andrew Lewin unpacks the bold decision by Cayman citizens to reject a development project that would have severely damaged their coral reef ecosystem. The vote sent a clear message: the long-term health of the ocean matters more than short-term tourism dollars.
Why Cayman Islanders Voted is also a reminder that grassroots action can be effective. Andrew explores how this vote happened, what it means for ocean conservation around the world, and how you can channel this momentum into protecting your local waters. He also introduces The Undertow, a growing community of ocean advocates working to inspire and support action like this on a global scale.
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(01:00:00):
Imagine a tropical paradise choosing reef
protection over economic promises.
We don't hear that much, but it happened
in Cayman Islands just
last, or two months ago
in April.
We're going to talk about it on today's
episode of the How to
Protect the Ocean podcast.
Let's start the show.
Hey everybody, welcome back to another
exciting episode of the How
to Protect the Ocean podcast.
(01:00:21):
I'm your host, Andrew Lewin.
This is the podcast where you find out
what's happening with the
ocean, how you could speak
up for the ocean, and what you can do to
live for a better ocean by taking action.
For now until the rest of time, I'm
really going to be focusing on action.
And something that you can be focused if
you want to take
action for the ocean is you
can join the undertow.
A couple of episodes ago, I had, I
actually published two
(01:00:42):
episodes on the undertow.
It's a startup, an ocean community that I
co-founded with, or has
brought on as a co-founder
with my two co-founders,
Amanda Horn and Serena Wynn.
And we are putting this together because
we want people to feel
comfortable in taking
action for the ocean,
connecting with the ocean and so forth.
You can come in there,
virtual events, in-person events.
This is an online app that we are
(01:01:03):
cultivating this
community together, no algorithm.
So you can always get ocean information
when you're on the app and
you can join the undertow
simply by going to speakupforblue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
It's a bit of a wait
list right now to get in.
We're releasing the app shortly, but we
want you to join the
undertow and take actions.
Speakupforblue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
(01:01:24):
Let's get into action that was taken by
the island of Cayman
islands, Grand Cayman.
And it was just a wonderful thing.
It's where you go like,
look, there's a referendum held.
Do you want a big pier on your island?
Okay.
Yes or no.
64% said no.
No pier.
That's awesome.
That's not as easy as it sounds, but it's
so great when
democracy works in favor of,
(01:01:47):
you know, citizens
and for the environment.
That doesn't happen a lot.
So here's the thing of what's going on.
So cruise ships are a big part of island
communities, whether the
citizens want it or not.
Cruise ships go all over the Caribbean
and like Mexico, all over the Caribbean,
like really anywhere you want.
And Grand Cayman is part of that.
I remember visiting there a number of
years ago and along seven mile beach,
(01:02:08):
which is a gorgeous beach.
There's a big pier where cruise ships
come in and people can come
for the day and, you know,
shop and it's supposed to bring tourism
on a daily basis or on a
semi daily basis to the island.
But it doesn't always necessarily work
out in favor for the citizens.
There's a lot of environmental damages
when building a pier,
whether they want it or not.
It's a very intrusive process.
You have to destroy some underwater part
(01:02:30):
of the ocean for the pier to go in.
And this pier, they wanted to bring a
larger cruise ships directly to
Georgetown, the capital.
But there was
concerns of reef destruction.
There's concerns of overtourism and
there's a concerns of just the
transparency of the process.
Because let's be honest, these
processes are for developers.
These processes are in favor of tourism,
(01:02:51):
but really for these
large ships, cruise ships.
And so they're there for the companies,
not necessarily the citizens.
So a referendum was
held on April 30th, 2025.
The result 64.5% voted against the pier,
which was really interesting.
This is a non-binding referendum, but had
a strong public impact and was held
alongside votes on cannabis
(01:03:12):
decriminalization and national lottery.
So there's a lot of votes going on.
I just think it's great that the island
put that up for referendum to say, hey,
does this do the
citizens actually want this?
A lot of times the citizens don't really
feel like they don't really have a say.
Sometimes they don't have a say.
And the government just makes the
decisions for them based on, you know,
people voting in the
government in this time.
They held the referendum.
I guess it's a small population that they
(01:03:33):
can hold the referendum.
Although I feel like referendum pretty
humbles the government and being like, do
we know what people want?
So we'll hold a referendum.
And if whatever that referendum will say,
you know, it is what it is.
I mean, let's look at Brexit in the UK.
Not many people thought
that Brexit would happen.
The people voted on a referendum.
Now Brexit happened.
And we have what we have now in terms of
(01:03:53):
the UK out of the European Union.
There have been other votes that have
happened across the world in different
democracies for referendums.
I think it's a great way to reset and
give, you know, the power back to the
people and to see what
people really actually want.
Now, there are a lot of campaigns that
were run by CPR, Cayman National Trust
and other grassroots groups led the
opposition to this pier.
(01:04:13):
And the key concerns, again, were damage
to coral reefs and marine ecosystems, the
threats to small businesses and cultural
heritage and the lack of
clear economic benefits.
So here's the thing when we
talk about small businesses.
Small businesses are, you know, the
backbone of society, right?
We see small businesses.
We go into those businesses.
We connect with the community.
The money stays within the community
(01:04:35):
because the people who own those small
businesses live within the community.
So as you exchange money for products,
that money, the profit that they pay for
will go towards the house that that small
business owner lives in the
groceries that they pay for.
They put money back into the community,
whether it be through charitable
donations or even just regular, you know,
day to day spending.
And so they are the backbone.
(01:04:56):
And we've seen in a number of different
towns and cities across the world that
these small businesses are being put out
of business due to large corporate
businesses that come in and just get
smaller prices because
they have a lot of money.
So I think that's going to be one of the thingsthat you're going to have to do is
have a better purchasing power.
And they just can
serve the community more.
You get everything you
want in those big stores.
You don't have to go to a store from
store to store and people who
(01:05:17):
are just in a rush are in that.
They're just in a rush and it's very
difficult to keep a small business these
days going, you know,
active in the community.
So that's a tough thing.
When you have cruise ships, now, how do
the cruise ships relate?
When you have cruise ships that come in
and people get off the boat, you are
going into a specific area, right?
(01:05:38):
you are going into a specific area,
if you're not in that
area, you can only go so far.
You know, a lot of times taxis and Ubers
or whatever will take you to
different parts of the island
if it's a small enough island for the day
and then bring you back in time
to get back on your cruise ship.
But a lot of the times
you're in specific areas.
Those areas sometimes
where the port goes in
are maybe owned by bigger businesses,
(01:06:00):
maybe owned by part of
the cruise lines, who knows?
You never know where these
corporations are putting these,
you know, what we think
look like small businesses,
but are businesses that get a benefit
from where these cruise ships go.
So the smaller businesses pay the price
or they have to pay larger rent,
or they have to pay like for their stores
to be there or things like that.
So it's a real, you
know, non benefit to this.
(01:06:21):
It's a negative impact
to these small businesses.
So having these cruise ships, these
bigger cruise ships come in is not
necessarily good for the businesses,
but also not good for the ocean.
Not only do you have the impact of the
reef destruction in
construction of the pier,
but you also have people coming to the
island, more people coming to the island.
We are in a big like growth economy.
Everybody's talking about how do I grow?
How do I do this? How do I grow?
(01:06:42):
I want to grow
bigger. I want to scale up.
Everything's big. Everything's going up.
At some point we have to look at these
islands and they are small islands.
They don't need massive growth.
Sure, they need money.
They want to grow. They
want their economy to do well.
But at some point there's, you know, when
you get that benefit and
you peak in terms of money,
only certain people benefit from that
money, as we just talked about.
(01:07:03):
But also the reef gets destroyed.
The environment gets changed.
The citizens who live there have to
change as well and have to adapt as well.
And it's not always a benefit.
And oftentimes it's a negative benefit to
those island communities.
Now I should preface this.
I'm not somebody who
lives on a small island.
So I don't know like just the day to day
impacts that small island communities
(01:07:23):
have on large tourism sort of pushes,
like a bigger cruise line coming in.
But I can't imagine that would be
something that would
be easily adaptable to,
especially when you're already trying to
adapt to small island living,
which you have increased prices.
It's very expensive to live in the
Caribbean, especially on Grand Cayman.
It's very expensive just to
shop for day to day activities.
When we went there, just, you know, a
(01:07:44):
loaf of bread, milk and a
couple of other items cost $100 US.
That's a lot of money just
for a small amount of items.
And that was before COVID.
That was before massive inflation.
I can just imagine what it is now.
It's very difficult for citizens to live
on that island that
are born on that island,
that not are coming in and buying big
houses and are rich.
These are people who have regular jobs,
(01:08:05):
you know, the middle class or even lower
middle class that are
having trouble surviving.
I can't even imagine what people who are
below that status have, you know, are
having trouble with.
So it can be very difficult in that.
So the fact that they added a vote and
said, hey, do you want this massive peer?
People said no, people weren't happy, but
a lot of people spoke out, which was
great voices like Sylvia Earl,
(01:08:26):
Jean-Michelus Cousteau.
They also spoke out against this peer.
So the people, the campaigners got people
from outside of Grand Cayman to speak out
on their behalf to make
sure that hey, you know what?
It's not just people on the island are
concerned, but it's also people outside
and that have a big impact.
Dr. Sylvia Earl and Jean-Michelus
Cousteau and others have a huge impact in
terms of what happens.
They have press releases.
(01:08:47):
They have public relations teams that are
just amazing and they get
their message gets far reaching.
If that gets out and it's negative, that
has an impact on how people look.
So that's one of the things.
So, you know, we talk a lot about that,
how international voices can help in
areas and saying, hey, I'm not going to
go there if we have these big impacts.
Right. So that's always good.
Now, there were arguments against, you
know, the cruise industry was arguing
(01:09:07):
against, but they said they're going to
have to adapt to it.
They said it would modernize Cayman
tourism and keep it competitive.
But even though they have frustration
with the vote, the way it turned out,
they are willing to
adapt and collaborate.
We'll see how that happens.
That's something that says, I'm glad
they're saying that.
They're not saying, hey, the vote was
corrupt or, you know, it was fraudulent
or anything like that.
We're back into like,
(01:09:28):
hey, democracy rules.
And this is what people want.
Now, cruise company may adapt to rules or
explore other islands.
So they might go to other islands.
In this case, that's what
the islanders have said.
The Cayman islanders
have said, you know what?
We don't want you here.
It's not for us.
The other thing is like, will development
resurface in another form?
So are they going to try and get, you
know, a cruise line in some other ways,
(01:09:48):
more cruise liners in other
ways, build a smaller pier?
Who knows what's going to happen?
That's going to be a really
difficult thing to look at.
But this is really an example.
The story is really an example of local
people making a global change.
And that's really important.
It sets a precedent for the Caribbean and
beyond that says, if you give the people
their power to vote on what they want and
what they don't want, they will use it
(01:10:10):
and they will activate that voice.
And they will say,
Hey, this is what we want.
And that will turn into action.
So the call to action really is to
support more local efforts
like these wherever you live.
And it's very important that you act
locally and then protecting oceans really
starts with protecting places we love.
So just like the people of Cayman did, we
need to love our oceans.
We need to love our environment, whether
(01:10:31):
you live in Ontario, like I do, like
you're beside the great lakes or you live
along the coastline.
You need to get out there, enjoy nature,
understand nature, not just go for a hike
for the sake of hiking,
but really look around.
Take like the iNaturalist app.
Look at the species that are around.
Are they native?
Are they invasive?
Just start to look and just
love what you see and enjoy it.
(01:10:52):
Take your time to just relax.
And I think that's really important.
So this is just a great story of local
action actually doing some great work and
preventing a large cruise liners or more
larger cruise liners coming in and a
bigger pier being destructive, bigger
pier not being built.
So that's always great.
And yeah, that's just, I want to share
that just show that there is hope and
(01:11:12):
there are ways that people are protecting
the ocean, even in small islands and
having international
voices as well as local voices.
So I want to thank the people of Grand
Cayman for doing what they're doing and
enjoying their ability to vote and taking
that ability to vote to heart.
And I want to thank you for listening to
this episode of the How to
Protect the Ocean podcast.
Don't forget, if you want to take action,
you can go to speakupforblue.com forward
slash join the undertow.
(01:11:34):
Thank you so much for listening to this
episode of the How to
Protect the Ocean podcast.
I'm your host, Andrew Lewin, from the
true North strong and free.
Have a great day.
We'll talk to you next
time and happy conservation.
Imagine a tropical paradise choosing reef
protection over economic promises.
We don't hear that much, but it happened
in Cayman Islands just
last, or two months ago
in April.
We're going to talk about it on today's
episode of the How to
Protect the Ocean podcast.
Let's start the show.
Hey everybody, welcome back to another
exciting episode of the How
to Protect the Ocean podcast.
(01:00:21):
I'm your host, Andrew Lewin.
This is the podcast where you find out
what's happening with the
ocean, how you could speak
up for the ocean, and what you can do to
live for a better ocean by taking action.
For now until the rest of time, I'm
really going to be focusing on action.
And something that you can be focused if
you want to take
action for the ocean is you
can join the undertow.
A couple of episodes ago, I had, I
actually published two
(01:00:42):
episodes on the undertow.
It's a startup, an ocean community that I
co-founded with, or has
brought on as a co-founder
with my two co-founders,
Amanda Horn and Serena Wynn.
And we are putting this together because
we want people to feel
comfortable in taking
action for the ocean,
connecting with the ocean and so forth.
You can come in there,
virtual events, in-person events.
This is an online app that we are
(01:01:03):
cultivating this
community together, no algorithm.
So you can always get ocean information
when you're on the app and
you can join the undertow
simply by going to speakupforblue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
It's a bit of a wait
list right now to get in.
We're releasing the app shortly, but we
want you to join the
undertow and take actions.
Speakupforblue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
(01:01:24):
Let's get into action that was taken by
the island of Cayman
islands, Grand Cayman.
And it was just a wonderful thing.
It's where you go like,
look, there's a referendum held.
Do you want a big pier on your island?
Okay.
Yes or no.
64% said no.
No pier.
That's awesome.
That's not as easy as it sounds, but it's
so great when
democracy works in favor of,
(01:01:47):
you know, citizens
and for the environment.
That doesn't happen a lot.
So here's the thing of what's going on.
So cruise ships are a big part of island
communities, whether the
citizens want it or not.
Cruise ships go all over the Caribbean
and like Mexico, all over the Caribbean,
like really anywhere you want.
And Grand Cayman is part of that.
I remember visiting there a number of
years ago and along seven mile beach,
(01:02:08):
which is a gorgeous beach.
There's a big pier where cruise ships
come in and people can come
for the day and, you know,
shop and it's supposed to bring tourism
on a daily basis or on a
semi daily basis to the island.
But it doesn't always necessarily work
out in favor for the citizens.
There's a lot of environmental damages
when building a pier,
whether they want it or not.
It's a very intrusive process.
You have to destroy some underwater part
(01:02:30):
of the ocean for the pier to go in.
And this pier, they wanted to bring a
larger cruise ships directly to
Georgetown, the capital.
But there was
concerns of reef destruction.
There's concerns of overtourism and
there's a concerns of just the
transparency of the process.
Because let's be honest, these
processes are for developers.
These processes are in favor of tourism,
(01:02:51):
but really for these
large ships, cruise ships.
And so they're there for the companies,
not necessarily the citizens.
So a referendum was
held on April 30th, 2025.
The result 64.5% voted against the pier,
which was really interesting.
This is a non-binding referendum, but had
a strong public impact and was held
alongside votes on cannabis
(01:03:12):
decriminalization and national lottery.
So there's a lot of votes going on.
I just think it's great that the island
put that up for referendum to say, hey,
does this do the
citizens actually want this?
A lot of times the citizens don't really
feel like they don't really have a say.
Sometimes they don't have a say.
And the government just makes the
decisions for them based on, you know,
people voting in the
government in this time.
They held the referendum.
I guess it's a small population that they
(01:03:33):
can hold the referendum.
Although I feel like referendum pretty
humbles the government and being like, do
we know what people want?
So we'll hold a referendum.
And if whatever that referendum will say,
you know, it is what it is.
I mean, let's look at Brexit in the UK.
Not many people thought
that Brexit would happen.
The people voted on a referendum.
Now Brexit happened.
And we have what we have now in terms of
(01:03:53):
the UK out of the European Union.
There have been other votes that have
happened across the world in different
democracies for referendums.
I think it's a great way to reset and
give, you know, the power back to the
people and to see what
people really actually want.
Now, there are a lot of campaigns that
were run by CPR, Cayman National Trust
and other grassroots groups led the
opposition to this pier.
(01:04:13):
And the key concerns, again, were damage
to coral reefs and marine ecosystems, the
threats to small businesses and cultural
heritage and the lack of
clear economic benefits.
So here's the thing when we
talk about small businesses.
Small businesses are, you know, the
backbone of society, right?
We see small businesses.
We go into those businesses.
We connect with the community.
The money stays within the community
(01:04:35):
because the people who own those small
businesses live within the community.
So as you exchange money for products,
that money, the profit that they pay for
will go towards the house that that small
business owner lives in the
groceries that they pay for.
They put money back into the community,
whether it be through charitable
donations or even just regular, you know,
day to day spending.
And so they are the backbone.
(01:04:56):
And we've seen in a number of different
towns and cities across the world that
these small businesses are being put out
of business due to large corporate
businesses that come in and just get
smaller prices because
they have a lot of money.
So I think that's going to be one of the thingsthat you're going to have to do is
have a better purchasing power.
And they just can
serve the community more.
You get everything you
want in those big stores.
You don't have to go to a store from
store to store and people who
(01:05:17):
are just in a rush are in that.
They're just in a rush and it's very
difficult to keep a small business these
days going, you know,
active in the community.
So that's a tough thing.
When you have cruise ships, now, how do
the cruise ships relate?
When you have cruise ships that come in
and people get off the boat, you are
going into a specific area, right?
(01:05:38):
you are going into a specific area,
if you're not in that
area, you can only go so far.
You know, a lot of times taxis and Ubers
or whatever will take you to
different parts of the island
if it's a small enough island for the day
and then bring you back in time
to get back on your cruise ship.
But a lot of the times
you're in specific areas.
Those areas sometimes
where the port goes in
are maybe owned by bigger businesses,
(01:06:00):
maybe owned by part of
the cruise lines, who knows?
You never know where these
corporations are putting these,
you know, what we think
look like small businesses,
but are businesses that get a benefit
from where these cruise ships go.
So the smaller businesses pay the price
or they have to pay larger rent,
or they have to pay like for their stores
to be there or things like that.
So it's a real, you
know, non benefit to this.
(01:06:21):
It's a negative impact
to these small businesses.
So having these cruise ships, these
bigger cruise ships come in is not
necessarily good for the businesses,
but also not good for the ocean.
Not only do you have the impact of the
reef destruction in
construction of the pier,
but you also have people coming to the
island, more people coming to the island.
We are in a big like growth economy.
Everybody's talking about how do I grow?
How do I do this? How do I grow?
(01:06:42):
I want to grow
bigger. I want to scale up.
Everything's big. Everything's going up.
At some point we have to look at these
islands and they are small islands.
They don't need massive growth.
Sure, they need money.
They want to grow. They
want their economy to do well.
But at some point there's, you know, when
you get that benefit and
you peak in terms of money,
only certain people benefit from that
money, as we just talked about.
(01:07:03):
But also the reef gets destroyed.
The environment gets changed.
The citizens who live there have to
change as well and have to adapt as well.
And it's not always a benefit.
And oftentimes it's a negative benefit to
those island communities.
Now I should preface this.
I'm not somebody who
lives on a small island.
So I don't know like just the day to day
impacts that small island communities
(01:07:23):
have on large tourism sort of pushes,
like a bigger cruise line coming in.
But I can't imagine that would be
something that would
be easily adaptable to,
especially when you're already trying to
adapt to small island living,
which you have increased prices.
It's very expensive to live in the
Caribbean, especially on Grand Cayman.
It's very expensive just to
shop for day to day activities.
When we went there, just, you know, a
(01:07:44):
loaf of bread, milk and a
couple of other items cost $100 US.
That's a lot of money just
for a small amount of items.
And that was before COVID.
That was before massive inflation.
I can just imagine what it is now.
It's very difficult for citizens to live
on that island that
are born on that island,
that not are coming in and buying big
houses and are rich.
These are people who have regular jobs,
(01:08:05):
you know, the middle class or even lower
middle class that are
having trouble surviving.
I can't even imagine what people who are
below that status have, you know, are
having trouble with.
So it can be very difficult in that.
So the fact that they added a vote and
said, hey, do you want this massive peer?
People said no, people weren't happy, but
a lot of people spoke out, which was
great voices like Sylvia Earl,
(01:08:26):
Jean-Michelus Cousteau.
They also spoke out against this peer.
So the people, the campaigners got people
from outside of Grand Cayman to speak out
on their behalf to make
sure that hey, you know what?
It's not just people on the island are
concerned, but it's also people outside
and that have a big impact.
Dr. Sylvia Earl and Jean-Michelus
Cousteau and others have a huge impact in
terms of what happens.
They have press releases.
(01:08:47):
They have public relations teams that are
just amazing and they get
their message gets far reaching.
If that gets out and it's negative, that
has an impact on how people look.
So that's one of the things.
So, you know, we talk a lot about that,
how international voices can help in
areas and saying, hey, I'm not going to
go there if we have these big impacts.
Right. So that's always good.
Now, there were arguments against, you
know, the cruise industry was arguing
(01:09:07):
against, but they said they're going to
have to adapt to it.
They said it would modernize Cayman
tourism and keep it competitive.
But even though they have frustration
with the vote, the way it turned out,
they are willing to
adapt and collaborate.
We'll see how that happens.
That's something that says, I'm glad
they're saying that.
They're not saying, hey, the vote was
corrupt or, you know, it was fraudulent
or anything like that.
We're back into like,
(01:09:28):
hey, democracy rules.
And this is what people want.
Now, cruise company may adapt to rules or
explore other islands.
So they might go to other islands.
In this case, that's what
the islanders have said.
The Cayman islanders
have said, you know what?
We don't want you here.
It's not for us.
The other thing is like, will development
resurface in another form?
So are they going to try and get, you
know, a cruise line in some other ways,
(01:09:48):
more cruise liners in other
ways, build a smaller pier?
Who knows what's going to happen?
That's going to be a really
difficult thing to look at.
But this is really an example.
The story is really an example of local
people making a global change.
And that's really important.
It sets a precedent for the Caribbean and
beyond that says, if you give the people
their power to vote on what they want and
what they don't want, they will use it
(01:10:10):
and they will activate that voice.
And they will say,
Hey, this is what we want.
And that will turn into action.
So the call to action really is to
support more local efforts
like these wherever you live.
And it's very important that you act
locally and then protecting oceans really
starts with protecting places we love.
So just like the people of Cayman did, we
need to love our oceans.
We need to love our environment, whether
(01:10:31):
you live in Ontario, like I do, like
you're beside the great lakes or you live
along the coastline.
You need to get out there, enjoy nature,
understand nature, not just go for a hike
for the sake of hiking,
but really look around.
Take like the iNaturalist app.
Look at the species that are around.
Are they native?
Are they invasive?
Just start to look and just
love what you see and enjoy it.
(01:10:52):
Take your time to just relax.
And I think that's really important.
So this is just a great story of local
action actually doing some great work and
preventing a large cruise liners or more
larger cruise liners coming in and a
bigger pier being destructive, bigger
pier not being built.
So that's always great.
And yeah, that's just, I want to share
that just show that there is hope and
(01:11:12):
there are ways that people are protecting
the ocean, even in small islands and
having international
voices as well as local voices.
So I want to thank the people of Grand
Cayman for doing what they're doing and
enjoying their ability to vote and taking
that ability to vote to heart.
And I want to thank you for listening to
this episode of the How to
Protect the Ocean podcast.
Don't forget, if you want to take action,
you can go to speakupforblue.com forward
slash join the undertow.
(01:11:34):
Thank you so much for listening to this
episode of the How to
Protect the Ocean podcast.
I'm your host, Andrew Lewin, from the
true North strong and free.
Have a great day.
We'll talk to you next
time and happy conservation.
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