Dear Sir,

According to anti-Caymanian advocate, Mr Gordon Barlow, government must be shrunk to its essential core. Mr Barlow seasons his words with some honey after soaking them in vinegar, stating that its staff should be ideally Caymanian. That is hypocritical. How can government be stripped to its core and the private sector remain much the same as it is now?

Keenly interpret what this carefully calculated subscriber is saying and it’s not in favour of our dear Caymanians or their children.

Because the subliminal message Mr Barlow is sending on behalf of his anti-Caymanian movement determined to take over our government is that our dear civil servants now securely employed by Government.

Mr Barlow is actually suggesting that each and every civil servant currently employed should now become a statistic: embarrassed, unemployed, homeless, devastated, hungry and destitute - just like those qualified Caymanians that have already been rejected and denied making an honest living in their own country. That’s Mr Barlow’s recommendation for the civil service. How cruel and prejudiced. He’s out of order. I dare say that the private sector would have the best and most educated individuals to choose from as civil servants have continuing education opportunities available to them and they do embrace such
opportunities on a regular basis.

There are Caymanians that have one, two and three college degrees, some four and five degrees and yet the Barlow campaign theme still reads “Caymanians are not qualified.” That myth has lived too long and it’s time to celebrate the burial of such a myth. It’s called piracy! Gone are the days of Pirates of the Caribbean invading our shores with guns, gunpowder and swords, they are now white colour organised, they’re now using our own Cayman Islands government to pull the sword against its own people in continuing to grant work permits where it is not at all necessary. It is a lucrative business.

Over populating this little country and generating increase in health care costs, more government housing expense, schools overcrowding, higher cost of living, bigger government and more taxes on the people in a country where they cannot even chose where they’d like to work; you name it, the problems are here. How sickening.

Caymanians are the best and we have what everybody wants; that the reason people of every nation and tongue are lined up trying to get in. How’s that for a white wedding, Mr Barlow? Bees follow the honey.

The private sector is not at all handicapped; the private sector has far too much liberty and has been doing pretty much what it pleases in denying Caymanians a job that they are duly qualified for. Caymanians are the most educated people in our jurisdiction. The myth that bringing in guest workers from big foreign countries does not mean that the person’s brain is as big or bigger than our own educated Caymanians. They’re playing on the people and government’s intelligence and the games have been played too long. The people are being taken advantage of in the private sector and now Mr Barlow and his camp wants to dictate what happens to our civil servants. Well, Mr Barlow, I serve you notice: you’re not at all qualified to dictate what happens to our Cayman Islands civil servants, so shut up.

Caymanians have and are still providing training for incoming guest workers; that’s the problem, Caymanians are being forced to train individuals on a work permit to deprive another young Caymanian from taking up that position. The love of money is the root of all evil. Government must cease selling its people’s birthright by selling the livelihood and future of its people in exchange for the almighty dollar. It’s backfiring now.

Mr Barlow, it’s the Caymanians that are handicapped, thrown under the buses and being run over by the huge work permit 18-wheelers. It’s a tragedy. These big government social vehicles are far too big for 144 square miles. Caymanians need their breathing space. Speaking of protectionism, the victims of such social injustices need protection from a predatory system that has been bullying the little guy, snatching his lunch and eating it. Bullying takes place when our government continues to allow business owners to deny Caymanians employment and at the same time granting them work permits keeping our people destitute and helpless.

The civil service, one of the few institutions that offer Caymanians employment and job security, must be protected at all costs. Unfortunately, God forbid, if those people get laid off government, still must take up the tab of providing social service aid and housing to those not being able to acquire employment in the private sector at a rate of almost 100 percent. The private sector is not only unstable, but is a barren ground for our people to seek employment at this time in Cayman’s history. The framework is not in place yet, and we await the necessary changes.

Florence Goring-Nozza