Letter to the Editor
How long will we have to put up with this situation?
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Dear Sir,
I have read yet another News Bulletin from Radio Cayman concerning the four
Cubans who left Cayman Brac on Wednesday, 7 July, heading for Honduras
(supposedly), and ended up on the Reef in East End, (like another set did).
Now we are compelled to ask the question “How long will this game of
Ring-around-the-rosy” be allowed to continue without the Caymanian officials
getting to the bottom of what is really going on??
Maybe, just maybe, some of the boats that arrive in Cayman Brac are people
trying to escape Cuba, or be en route to Honduras. One group who arrived in
Cayman Brac was given supplies like the others, then they went to Little
Cayman and returned to Cayman Brac with, excuse me, US $1,200.
Didn’t anyone get just a little curious about how they could have that
amount of money and need to go to Cayman Brac for supplies. They even
purchased a boat engine in Cayman Brac.
Has anyone ever heard of “Scuttling?” And how is it that none of them have
knowledge of the reefs at East End - why are they always ending up there?
Surely they should be given some type of warning before leaving Cayman Brac,
about the reefs at East End. And pardon my ignorance, but I didn’t know you
had to go to East End to reach Honduras.
Can’t anyone see that some of these people are running drugs or other
contraband between Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Honduras??? The pattern has
repeated itself too often now.
Enough is Enough. Ignorance is not bliss. If the Cayman Islands Government
officials are not involved in this fiasco, then it is time to put a stop to
it.
How? There are laws in place, and supposedly an agreement with Cuba to
return them there. Instead of them being given boats, engines, supplies etc,
to speed them on their illegal way, arrest any that arrive in the Cayman
Islands illegally, put them under heavy interrogation to find out what they
are really up to, charge them with illegal entry into the Islands, and have
the courts deport them to Cuba with a clear understanding that they are never
to return to the Cayman Islands.
We realise that the Cayman Islands don’t have the money, especially not
Cayman Brac, to keep paying for their return, but it is time to open our eyes
and see that we are paying dearly in other ways, for this Island hopping that
is being allowed.
This game is going to continue until some hard pressure and decisions are
put into action.
N. Bodden
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