Not Worth Water from Jorge Swaby on Vimeo.

Human Rights have come up a lot in the Cayman Islands news recently. There are a few reasons for this; The Constitutional Modernisation proposal and their effects on Human Rights, The Roll Over Policy (yes expats have human rights too!), and of course all the violence that has happened this year (small compared to other places and islands but its getting worse by Cayman’s scale with murders closing in on double figures).

When I saw this video on the Marl Road I was a bit taken aback. Not because I was not awar eof this is what happens, but because I had never actualy seen it happen. Whilst this is only a video it is very upsetting to see that Government Officials are actually not allowing residents to give the Cubans what they need to carry on. It is one thing to stop them from setting foot on land, but to not aide with water and fuel to carry on is plain mean. It is quite obvious that no Cuban would go through that ordeal only to land in Cayman and then repatriated to Cuba. Not allowing them on the island does not mean you shouldn’t care for their efforts and then actually stop willing people from giving them what they need to carry on their way.

Let us not forget that many people from Cayman like to vacation in Cuba, and many other people come through Cayman to get to Cuba. So while Cayman and Cayanians obviously like Cuba and Cubans it is obvious that Cubans are not worthy of being aided in their fight for survival on the waters or even a better life, which should be everyones human right.

So forgive me for a small self satisfying post here, however I thoguht this video may be of some interest to others, especially as the forums of Marl Road seem to be down due to too much participation and not enough moderation.