Letter to the Editor
Caymanians...
Stand up for your country
Dear Sir,
I would like to take this opportunity tocongratulate Mr. Desmond Seales and to also thank him for hisresponse in his Editor's note to Mr. Trevor Davies' letter inissue #37 edition of Cayman Net News.
I would also like to congratulate Mr. Olivaire Watler on his responseto Mr. Barlow's letter carried in the same edition of the paper.
As an 81-year-old Caymanian with more than 47 years' experienceas a seaman travelling to countless countries working with numerousdifferent nationalities under all kinds of different conditionsand at a time when the world was not as small as it is today,when it was not always easy to get from point A to point B I havea hard time understanding why these two gentlemen giving sucheasy access to such modern means of transportation will insiston living and working in a country where the people are so unfriendlywhere there is no respect for Human Rights and where the democraticprocess is a farce.
My question is why they find conditions so unfavourable is becausethey have no country to go back to or is conditions here is stillbetter than where they came from.
Well, let me say to these gentlemen and any others with like mindand attitude that it is a good thing that Caymanians are not theunfriendly kind of people they try to make them out to be, forif they were in some countries that I have been to displayingthat attitude, they would soon find themselves leaving and notby their own will.
So let me say to people with that attitude, what the old negroAmerican said to his hard-to-please, disgruntled wife: "Ifyou don't like my peaches, don't shake my trees." The roadis straight and there is a good breeze.
Also, I must agree with Mr Seales in his reference to other mediafor I have had letters edited to the point where the point I wishedto make was left out. I also wrote letters that were never published.
The most recent was one mailed over two months ago; this letterwas about fish pots and referred to the news item on News 27 bySimon Boxall about 17 large Jamaican fishpots that were beingfished by a Jamaican man. I guess the reason why my letter wasnot published was because I mentioned the nationality of the personmentioned in the news.
But I want to say here that no matter what nationality the personwere, be it Jamaican, Honduran, Caymanian, American or else, Iwould have mentioned it, since I have always been one to calla spade a spade.
I want to say here, that until we Caymanians have the guts enoughto bite the bullet and call a spade a spade, we will always betreated like second-class citizens by people like the Mr. Barlowsand Mr. Davies and others.
But, let me make it clear to anyone that I loved this little countryenough to fight for it years ago and I will continue to fightfor it and always call a spade a spade when I need to as longas I have life in my body. And I dare anyone to try to stop me.
I must again appeal to Caymanians to stand up and be counted;this is our country; let's hold on to it.
Carley E Ebanks,
West Bay