Border patrol eying migrant boat
(CNS): Officers from Customs and Border Control (CBC) in Cayman Brac are keeping their eyes on a small vessel in local waters with two Cuban migrants on board who may need to come ashore. With the borders closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials are now standing by to help CBC bring the migrants on land if necessary and ensure that all established isolation protocols are followed.
This is the first migrant boat from Cuba that has been spotted by Cayman authorities in local waters for over a year.
Since Cuba’s first case in March, the island has had a total of 5,483 cases of COVID-19, just over 730 are active cases and 122 people have died.
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There is no doubt in my mind that it is not a secret in Cuba that the Caymans are not taking in migrants from their country. Continuing to break our own rules about this is sending the wrong message to them. On a humane level give them water, food, gas and medical supplies and send them off; especially during this pandemic.
Do unto others as you would like to be done to you Disregard color, race, nationality and wealth or lack of. Make this world a better place for you me and you will find peace during our brief sojourn on Mother Earth. Peace
If they are low on supplies give them fuel, food and water but send them on their way. We can’t risk anyone coming ashore without knowing what their health status is. Also, all the people screaming and sobbing that it’s cruel not to help them by all means let them stay at your house. You feed and support them. It is not the job of Cayman to deal with this. There are approximately 11.3 million (MILLION). Cubans many of whom are living in poverty. Do you want them all to come here? We need to be realistic. I know some people will say I have no heart but I’m a realist. There are many people in the world who are poor or in trouble but we can’t help them all. Let’s help our own first.
That’s how great it is to live in Cuba with wonderful FREE national education and “World-Class” national healthcare!
May be they are swimming for pleasure?
What free education and health care has to do with these individuals? By the way it is free in Cayman if one is employed by CIG.
Food, water, fuel, kfc and a push
Let them land and test them immediately. It would be cruel to leave them out there.
Nah, make them wait 15 days like the rest of our prisoners
Give them fuel, water and food and let them go on. Let’s be sensible for once ok.
They aren’t going anywhere, that’s the problem.
I asked a law enforcement officer if he’d ever ride in that boat from brac to little cayman. He promptly laughed and said hell no.
I walked back to my car, grabbed a pair of fins and a gallon of water in each hand and swam out to them with the water.
When I got back to shore, the officer said they could throw me in jail. I said do it, same way you said hell that’s where you’d go! They human too!
Now you have to quarantine for 18 days
this was many years ago
Ok mother Theresa, Then open up your household to them, give up your job, car, salary, etc to any of the 11 million Cubans who have the same idea. That makes you and officer hypocrites then.
I gave them some supplies after they decided to continue on.
By your logic, donating towards a charity that feeds hungry kids in Africa is pointless because I can’t feed them all.
It kind of is.
frigging fool. One of them was sick. You better go quarantine for 14 days
#buildthewall
#cubawillpayforit
I hope they repatriate them back to Cuba and don’t add to anymore liability taking care of them and their demands. They should learn from previous encounters.