As a native born Caymanian, I ask you to give me a chance to speak to my people including all expats…but especially the Jamaican community.
I was waiting for the day when I would hear or read in the paper that there was a change in our local daily news.
For the last few months all guns, arrows and spears were pointing on Jamaicans as the culprits of every bad influence in Cayman.
Very few persons have written or voiced about the many good hard working gardeners, builders, teachers, nurses and those domestic helpers who adjusted themselves to very low living in order to care for our children while we worked and how they did it just to make honest bread.
As I said I can’t keep quiet any longer for when good men and women keep silent evil men and women prevail.
May I ask the question to my people, saved and unsaved alike, now that the Jamaican population is almost eradicated from Cayman and the door has been open for the gay and lesbian community to visit and take up abode when they are ready….Cayman what’s next’?
May I say that when we become so confused and desperate for money and revenue and begin to kill one kind in order to give life to another the Island is heading for big trouble and a downfall.
I am presently living in Portmore, Jamaica, and to be honest as a native born Caymanian I am amazed at the type of treatment that the government has given me and my family despite the way many (not all) of my own people has treated Jamaicans.
To be honest it is embarrassing at times.
And may I say despite the high crime rate, living in Jamaica is not as bad as it seems once you are in the position to live a normal life. I am not here by choice
I am now a missionary to Jamaica along with several other Caymanians and it’s a beautiful place to live.
I am asking the entire Cayman Islands to record this article:
A day is coming when Cayman is going to try and make friends back with Jamaica, but it will be too late because the Lord has opened up other doors for the Jamaican community through CARICOM.
Jamaicans can now fly to other Caribbean islands, rent a place and start working right away (no permits).
For those of you who still have Jamaicans working for you, treat them good. Nurture the friendships. Treat them good as from today because you can pay them Friday and that’s the last time you might see that helper, worker or church member.
Between now and December 2006 there is going to be a mighty exodus of Jamaicans out of Cayman without Immigration pressure.
Many of them are hurting while they are cooking, cleaning and building by the harsh words and insults over the air waves.
Already we see the impact taking a toll on the private sector, builders, stores, travel agents, private homes and churches.
What’s next when our teens and school leavers start migrating to England, USA or Canada because Cayman is too bored with mostly elderly people?
Before you reply or call the talk show think positive about all that I’ve written and remember who has written this time; a fellow Caymanian who used to wait for the Jamaican boat to come for my granny to load on rope and trade with Jamaica.
This is not politically motivated at all. I am talking to the entire Cayman Islands.
Make the changes but do it with pride and dignity not with revenge and arrogance.
No man is an Island to himself. I am humbly asking you to stop the nationality bashing on the radio, TV and newspaper. It looks bad.
A few months before hurricane Ivan I prophetically preached on Radio Cayman that a type of famine was going to hit Cayman and that people would have money but wouldn’t able to spend it and just as I said it happened. We had money but there was nothing to buy.
I love my country and my people and refuse to sit back and not voice what I feel.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. Don’t kill one set to give life to another.
Juliette Fagan Bishop
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