The lead story and editorial in your paper dated,3 November, 2011, should be a sobering conscience call to self respecting Caymanians and others to whom it applies in these Islands.
As a society of immigrants, who for many years were dependent upon the hospitality of neighbouring jurisdictions for an economic lifeline, it is strikingly paradoxical that we should now be so uncharitable. How can a society that is always so quick to tout its religiosity, be so reluctant to show its generosity and charitableness to those whom we employ?
Perhaps not nearly enough of us are aware of our own journey to this point in our development as to be aware of our moral obligation, to reciprocate charitableness and goodwill. It may well be that the tales of the Caymanian Diaspora have been forgotten amidst the sumptuousness, ostentation and self-aggrandisement.
Rabbi Hillel, the great Jewish philosopher and scholar, put it best when he taught: “Do not do unto others what you would not like done unto you.” Much later, the acknowledged “Greatest Rabbi” and architect of the New Covenant, taught his followers to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
It behooves us as Caymanians to live by these precepts and to remember from whence we came, lest by chance we have to repeat our journey.
Roy Bodden
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