Here we go again. For the last several weeks all I can read about in the letters to the editor or the headlines is the gay issue. I am not supporting the gays but that is something that cannot be stopped. You are not changed into being a gay, but you are born with it.
However, my letter today is far more important than gays and we as a small community should be more interested in situations that can cause a much bigger problem in the future.
The lack of concern for this area can lead to more crime, more drug use, more unwanted pregnancies, more illiterate people and more social ills in our community.
The problem that I am talking about is education. Ever since we have read about gangs being in our schools, drugs in our schools, unwanted pregnancies in our schools, rapes in our schools, graffiti in our schools, and the list goes on, where are the hundreds of letters that should be written to the editor on this?
Wake up Cayman, get your priorities right, you are wasting precious time talking about a gay ship that took eight years to reach our shores after being banned, and only stayed for six hours. Are you really that concerned about this that you ignore the most important concern for any country, and that is education?
Don’t you know that education is first priority in any society for it to grow into a better community? When people are not educated, they cannot get a proper job or advance to better the society; that in turn leads to getting involved in crime.
The ministers (both in the churches and in government) have ignored this in the past. They have swept it under the carpet. They were saying we are too small a society to have gangs in our schools. Those seemingly non-gangs are causing Cayman a big problem now. Not only is it still in the schools, but it has hit the streets, it has graduated to a higher standard – gang killings.
Approximately 20 years ago when we had the Unity team in power there were gangs in our schools, and they are still there today. The only problem was that whoever was responsible for education did not want to take the responsibility to update the public on what was happening.
I do lift my hat off to the minister now that has that portfolio. Alden McLaughlin, in trying to deal with the problem, had the decency to let the public be aware of the problems in our schools. Please, Mr. McLaughlin, do keep up the fight, do not put this issue on a back burner. I hope the rest of the elected members, even the opposition, will give you their support to fight this hard battle. Le us eradicate this problem from our schools.
So to all the people that are writing letters or thinking about writing letters for the next eight years, waiting for the next gay cruise ship to come in and spend money with us, can we concentrate on the more serious problem of gangs, that will rob us, harm our society and leave us memories of our loved ones?
Again I say, wake up Cayman and smell the gangs.
R. Ebanks
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