More Reactionto Pesticides in the Cayman Islands
Dear Sir
Thank you for your enlightening and informativeseries of articles on pesticides in mosquito sprays. May nothingprevent you from continuing to speak out on this important issue!
This reminds me of what happened some yearsago when a well-respected health care centre in Miami, notingthe exceptionally high incidence of cancer in the Cayman Islands,offered to sponsor a study that would have included an investigationof the sprays used by MRCU. Government's response? "No thanks-its bad for tourism!"
Aside from that reason, you can bet thatneither Government nor MRCU want to open up the way for million-dollarlaw suits from victims or victims' families.
No one doubts that MRCU's efforts have greatlyreduced the mosquito population, but at what cost to both humanand environmental life and suffering? Feeble letters of protestfrom suppliers of insecticide to MRCU carry no weight at all,and are an insult to our collective intelligence.
If a fair investigation reveals that peopleare to blame for our current unhealthy situation, then those peopleshould be forced to accept the responsibility and pay the price.
Of course, we have to have the investigationfirst. Does anyone really believe that will happen? Just for once,how refreshing it would be for a government to actually put thesafety of its people first, instead of sacrificing it to the almightydollar!
Norman Llewellyn