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Submit Your Comments Total: 1235 Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20   Cayman/Jamaican visas 4. A number of Br.Commonwealth countries have imposed visa on Jamaicans e.g. UK, Canada, Bermuda and Ja. did claim that reciprocity applied. 5. a visa is not a statement that you hate the nationals of that country, that you don't want any of those nationals to visit your country or that you are better than them. It is simply a border control mechanism to help filter out the criminal element. It is in everyone's interest to that (except the criminals of course!). The visa will not apply to some 12,000 Jamaicans in Cayman who hold work permits or otherwise have permanent status. In the circumstances retaliation by Ja., whether intentionally or not, will be seen by the J'can criminal as a show of support as legitimate visitors had nothing to fear By Duncan Ebanks @ Cayman  spiritformed@hotmail.com Wednesday, December 7, 2005   Cayman/Jamaican visas 3. Cayman is taking a number of measures to combat crime internally. The visa was simply one measure, and this was applied not simply to Ja. but also to 4 other countries making a total of 116 countries which are subject to visa restrictions. Ja. is the only country which has cried "discrimination!' 4. Ja. has itself applied visa restrictions on Colombia and Haiti on the basis that they are "high risk countries". No one has cried "foul" about this altho I'll bet these nationals form only a tiny proportion of the Ja., prison population. Evidently then a visa is not statement that you do not have domestic crime problems, but this does not obviate the need to protect your borders. By Duncan Ebanks @ Cayman  spiritformed@hotmail.com Wednesday, December 7, 2005   Cayman/Jamaican visas Since hurricane Ivan (when workers were not screened) ccrime has increased dramatically. Unfortunately in many of these cases Jamaicans were implicated by the witnesses/victims of the crimes. In one case J'can man arrived on a flight Thursday night and by the Friday evening had committed a string of crimes. Clearly he came for that express purpose. Armed robbery which used to be unknown in Cayman has become almost commonplace. There is evidence of a connection between gangs in Cayman and gangs in Ja. which are brought in to do the bigger crimes. There is a suggestion from certain J'cans that the crimes are really being committed by Caymanians speaking Ja. patois! This is hardly credible since it is clear in a number of cases that the criminals were not familiar with the place or the target of the crime but instead came in to do a job. By Duncan Ebanks @ Cayman  spiritformed@hotmail.com Wednesday, December 7, 2005   Cayman/Jamaican visas Most comments here are emotional and not rational and reflect a lack of information and understanding. I am afraid you do not have enough space for me to properly address the comments here from Cayman's perspective: 1. The twin pillars of Cayman's economy are tourism and the financial industry. The depend in large on our low-crime status. That is the one key element that we have to offer over other jurisdictions, including Jamaica, which have other attractions. Given the space limitation my comments will continue in a series of posts By Duncan Ebanks @ Cayman  spiritformed@hotmail.com Wednesday, December 7, 2005   caymans the caymans need to look in their history and realise tahat their island was once dependent and ruled from Jamaica.in their defence their is a gun problem but two Possesions of the crown should be able to work out their differences with the possibiltes of Britain mediating because this is a sily problem between two very connected islands.Peace to caymans and Jamaicans alike By Lee Lovelock-Jemmott @ England  amakadan@hotmail.com Tuesday, December 6, 2005   Caymanian Respose Needed This webb site is taking a lot of hits, that means millions of people is reading it world wide, why the Cayman academician are not responding, speak your mind and let free speach rocks.We want to know why this problem start in the first place. Write in your local language, we will understand it. Most Jamaicans are not bitter against Caymanians, they are bitter against your way of doing things. I have lots of Caymanian friends here in Canada, my friend is having a Beer right now, we have been friends from Cayman many years ago, we are not cursing or fighting. My house in Jamaica shelter many Caymanians. Whats going on, it sounds very bad and people are talking about it in North America.Dont say it does not matter, it does. By Lincoln @ Canada/Gods Land  Monday, December 5, 2005   Shame on Cayman It is very clear from colonial days that The Cayman needs Jamaica more than the other way around. We as a country should limit our travel to any country who is bias against our Nationals. The Cayman authorities should know the implication of this unfriendly act. An insult to Jamaican nationals is a slap in the face of all Jamaicans. Jamaica has always treated every Cayman visitors with the outmost respect when they visit for pleaser or employment. It is very clear that The Cayman authorities has nothing good to offer Jamaicans but harassments and wrong imprisonment. By Kwame @ Spaldings, Jamaica  Monday, December 5, 2005   all i got to say all the world is doing bad almost every country in the west indies has a problem right now rather it be jamaica with it's killigs trinidad with it's kidnapping and haiti with it's proverty stop trying to make one look better then the other whoever is on here and try to say that everyone is trying to stay away from jamaica thats a lie because every country that i know have it's ups and down look at great old america i live here but i know evern though everyone think it's so great it's ultimately going to be the country that will one day cause world war some of my brothers friends can't even go to school with out getting searched before they enter so before you get on the little paradise we all have left to go feel some warmth in our bones look at the bigger picture . We all need each other and hopefully this violence problem can soon stop because i bet cayman is not perfect the people there have to be commiting some crimes to as in other nations By donnie @ ny new york  checkdonnie@yahoo.com Monday, December 5, 2005   Cayman Economy Sir or Madam, Yes you do need other people, what you are talking about is liquid assets and in the world of economics you need to strengthen your ties with other countries. Banks alone cant make your economy strong it takes more than that. These companies that are hiding ther money on your Island might see the change that your government is making. They can also become insecure and pull out their Money, now it is a Visa problem, what will be next? Investors look at all these areas, they might even say, will the government freeze my assets, it is more than a Jamaican, Cayman or other Islands situation. It how the world see, you. Can they trust you, are you protecting human rights. Stop fucos on money alone, wealth can come to any Island or country, keeping it is a daunting task. By Lincoln @ Canada/Gods Land  Monday, December 5, 2005   Cayman$ There are over 500 banks on the small Cayman Island$, they really dont need the Jamaicans, or any other island people. Their money comes form Europian and American companies who have accounts on the island. Many of the accounts that are opend on the island are use to hide assets from their government. By BlacknProud @   Monday, December 5, 2005   what? To Jamaica bwoy@USA, what do you mean when u say the caymans are going to end up like the Haitians. Just asking because I'm a succesful Haitian woman and wanted to know did you mean they would end up like me? By Jay @ Miami by way of PORT-AU-PRINCE  jojolove@blackplanet.com Sunday, December 4, 2005   Jamaica a di best Mek me tell you someting Cayman can kiss fi me ass. Me nah give a damn bout dem and dem ploicy cause a we a hold di title of di best, most livest island inna di caribean. So mek dem put a visa pon we but we a go shut dem down and puti back pon dem. We and dem nah size Jamaica too much fi dem fi handle. A whe di blodclatt a gwon fi real. Cause di Cayman Islands need fi stop di damn hating pon Jamaica. Cause dem a go end up like di Haitian dem, we just light dem up when there's a problem and apperantley there is. By Jamaica Bwoy @ U.S.A  darriellE@YAHOO.COM Friday, December 2, 2005   Checking Myself I am taking your advise and I am checking myself, people always talk about the negative and not the positive. The last time I check at the Hospital that I work in Canada, one of the top Heart surgeon is a Jamaican and his waiting list span months. People from all over the world come to see him. Anyway I guess nobody will talk about that, it is not important and it wont fulfill their desire and evil plan. Anyway why talk about the good things, bad things sounds better! By Lincoln @ Canada/Gods World  Friday, December 2, 2005   Check u self dont wreck u self Jamaicans need fi check dem selves..they have a negative reputation everywhere they go..not only in cayman...eng, canada etc....i am a jamacian living in kman and trus me jamaican ina all type of bandulu..is like nothin na work nothing no pugin..st8...i mean take a look of whats going on in jamaica place jus in total chaos... R By R @   Friday, December 2, 2005   Fi real Cayman ain't a better country than Jamaica, their currency might be higher but they definitely ain't better than us, so if we need visa to go to their country then they definitely need visa to come to ours. By Jamaican @ Jamaica  Friday, December 2, 2005   Visa for Cayman Dear Last Writer, I dont agree with you when you say that Cayman can do without Jamaica, but the opposite is not the same. Money is not all there are a lot of other things that makes the World go arround. On the other hand old Jamaica will always be old Jamaica and the people will survive no matter what. Dont generalized Jamaicans, everybody is not the same, we can be found in every country and profession in the world. In every country that is developing, there will always be good and bad. There will be other criminals hitting Cayman, not with Guns, but with pens and their colour wont be the skin colour of most Jamaican. It would be a good idea if Jamaica and Cayman could mend their broken fences and move on as before. Hi to Raglan Roper, Bubbo, Gabbey and others who know me, peace and love to Caymanians and Jamaicans. I am still the same and I am doing very well. Thank God, I hope you are too, God Bless. By Lincoln @ Canada/Gods Land  Friday, December 2, 2005   cayman If that is what they want to do that by all means necessary. We as Jamaican make it bad for ourselves. We need to think before we act. If they are doing imposing this law, they are doing it for a reason. It is time for us as Jamaican to realize what is going on in the real world. Keep in mind that the Cayman Island can do without us, but we cannot do without them, we need the money By blessed @   Thursday, December 1, 2005   "it's not even worth it" a weh di bloodclatt a gwaan yah? little cayman want visa fi enter their country. if it wasn't fi we jamaicans them wouln't even make any money, because people rarely go there. people go places like barbados, jamaica even trinidad but u hardly hear about cayman. let them go to hell with them visa. By pon de river @ ny  unknown Thursday, December 1, 2005   visa policy for jamaicans to cayman i think everybody is trying to avoid jamaicans, but if they want for us to have visa to come to their country, they would have to have visa to come to ours also, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. By demo delgado @ California, USA  demodelgado@msn.com Thursday, December 1, 2005   Total: 1235 Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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