Comments on: Column: Reflecting On Visit To Cayman Islands

By: Black Soil

Black Soil — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:34:49 +0000

Were you checking everyone’s passports or using your usual prejudicial assessment based on sight and overall ignorance??

By: Question

Question — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:54:23 +0000

The Caymanian unemployment rate is 4.1%.

I’d rathet look at facts than at your biased anecdote.

Were you living it up at taxpayer expense?

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:26:54 +0000

And let me guess , you can also tell who’s Bermudian and not on these comment boards ?

By: Chris Famous

Chris Famous — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:27:39 +0000

Can you explain to us exactly why at the Marriott and most other establishments along the 7 mile beach area we hardly saw any Caymanians?

We counted 2 Caymanians at the Marriott.

By: Um Um Like

Um Um Like — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:59:48 +0000

Somebody buy this man a one way ticket to Cayman!

By: Vigilante

Vigilante — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:55:09 +0000

Actually, friendliness has not cost the Caymanians their livelihood..on the contrary, it has enhanced their opportunities. Unemployment is half that of Bermuda. Hotels get built and locals get jobs (despite what Mr Famous says). Cayman’s leaders are all Caymanian and none of them spend time mudslinging. The Cayman government is actively rooting out corruption and fraud among it departments, including The Port Authority and Immigration. Sad to say for someone who grew up with the Strollers, but now it really looks like “Cayman is another world”…

By: moira thompson

moira thompson — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:04:15 +0000

if caymanians are outnumbered I would ask the question, where have all of them disappeared if they are being slowly meticulously replaced, what do the caymanians themselves do? where are the majority of them? have they gone away to work elsewhere when their dollar is stronger than anyone else? foreigners have found a way to wiggle into someone elses territory in the guise of helping with a debt that will remain outstanding!i would like to hear from original caymanians about their disappearance from the workplace in their country and see whether or not they like it!

By: moira thompson

moira thompson — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:00:12 +0000

vigilante- you say tomato I say tomaaattoe! the friendliness there has cost the caymanians their own livelihood and they are so vulnerable they don’t even get it yet! For a people to be satisfied with mediocracy in their numbers and desperation for others to lead them in their own country well, lets just say thanks Mr Famous for the enlightment and whilst others have their own opinion, the only reason they have people like vigilante being greeted there coz the money is good and the people are so easy to convince because they are not aware of the treasures of their land that are now being utitilized by others, looks like modern day Columbus, ” look at these civilized people! they have no idea of their wealth, let us deal wisely with them!”. Once again tks Mr Famous for your commentary.

By: Double S

Double S — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:56:07 +0000

Barbados’ population is 5 times that of Bermuda and they have 6 less MPs.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:48:54 +0000

indeed they could, starting with why, when we have a similar population, do we need twice as many MPs?

By: Rocky5

Rocky5 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:44:00 +0000

Sounds like Cayman treats their visitors much better that Bermudians do!

By: Double S

Double S — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:21:50 +0000

Not everyone shares your narrow minded nationalist/nativist ideology Mr. Famous.

Cayman is recording surpluses, paying down their debt, giving their civil servants pay rises and even will pay for each Caymanian to attend University if they so desire. Hotels are being built, companies continue to domicile there resulting in a growing economy and a very low unemployment rate.

Bermuda, and Mr. Famous and his PLP colleagues, could learn a thing or two from Cayman at this point in time.

By: Question

Question — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:30:50 +0000

Chris Famous speaking out against diversity and pretending to be an expert in the forces behind currency exchange rates.
Forgive me if I puke.

By: Vigilante

Vigilante — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:29:54 +0000

Quite a timely piece by Mr Famous, with only a few inaccuracies and omissions, contrary to his usual method of monologue. He states there are not many Caymanians in the hotel business, but I know quite a few so employed, and happily so. He also neglected to add to his historical dates that slavery was abolished in 1834, as in the rest of the English Caribbean, and that in the intervening 184 years race relations have developed such that today there is little of the racism that ravages Bermuda’s political landscape. The Cayman politicians have simply not invoked it, and Mr Famous would indeed be famous to consider their approach. Perhaps it will come up in his “subsequent pieces”.

As a white Bermudian who has lived and worked in Cayman at various times over the past 20 years, I find Cayman much more amenable than Bermuda to people like me and likewise to people of all ethnicities. Issues related to skin colour, “colonial rule” and the like are simply not accorded the time and energy that they are given in Bermuda, and strangely enough I find Cayman is a much happier place to live and visit. In my humble opinion, this is the primary reason Cayman’s tourism business is so successful.

Several friends of mine in Cayman were quite surprised at the rather vitriolic position statements of Mr Famous and expressed concern that his attitude might infect Cayman. Having Mr Famous act as Bermuda’s spokesperson gave many Caymanians a new perspective, which they do not yet seem minded to adopt, fortunately for Cayman. More will be revealed in Mr Famous’s upcoming pieces, I am sure…

By: Sickofantz

Sickofantz — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:59:55 +0000

Another aspect of Cayman’s friendly welcome and diverse integrated shang gri la. Is that they have all round good weather. Which we don’t. Jamahl Simmons keeps writing about the fact he is targeting visitors who don’t come for the sun and sand! But he is yet to say why these visitors would come to holiday here if not for the sun and sand.

By: Sheldon Maybury

Sheldon Maybury — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:56:57 +0000

Funny enough Chris,

When i first visited Jamaica in 1972 the JA$ was $1.20 or if you did the simple math of the time 10 shillings. Seeing as Cayman Islands elected or decided not to join Jamaica in Independence their currency has remained stable, while Jamaica’s went on a horrific decline.

But thanks for the clarifications as set out in your oped

By: facts of the rock

facts of the rock — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:34:59 +0000

“Welcome to our home and now your home……”

NO Bermuda Bus Driver would ever say that!