Regiment gets supplies to quarantined families
(CNS): Dozens of families had to go into unexpected quarantine last week after an outbreak of COVID-19 at the George Town Primary School, but many of them were not able to get to the supermarkets before they were locked down and found themselves short on supplies. As a result, the Cayman Islands Regiment was enlisted to help get groceries and other items to the families at the weekend with the help of various other government agencies and Foster’s supermarket chain.
Premier Wayne Panton said at the press briefing on Friday that government was aware that families were locked down before they had chance to prepare and might be in need of assistance. He said all of the relevant ministries were going to make sure the “very legitimate concerns were addressed”.
By Saturday, the regiment had been deployed to deliver groceries and water to 120 homes across Grand Cayman. Regiment vehicles were loaded up by four teams of reservists at the Camana Bay Foster’s location and dispatched to the families.
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I suppose the school family that flew to the Brac are going hungry as they have not heard about this.
Regiment deployed to deliver welfare baskets. What a waste. Disband the regiment and put the resources and effort into proper multi-functional emergency response teams. Not camouflage fatigues and army trucks.
What would we do without them?
Save money
Um, why? Is it because government again failed us so they have to give handouts to buy back voters?
More Government waste. Anyone worth their salt would have adequate supplies on hand just for this very purpose.
7.28am My neighbour has 100 toilet rolls stacked up in her garage, no s–t!.
Perfect example of another reason these unnecessary quarantines are a horrible idea.
This is all going to look really stupid in a few months time when we’ve finally opened up.
C19 is inevitable. Please stop interfering with people’s ability to work and their kid’s to learn in a pointless attempt to eradicate it.
Stop pounding sand and get on with more important tasks:
– fix the dump
– improve education
– replenish SMB
– revitalize downtown Georgetown
– reduce crime
– fix the traffic issues
– clamp down on speeding and dangerous driving
– root out systemic corruption
I though the Regiment was a bad thing.
They are a waste of money. Military trucks to deliver ‘meals on wheels’. Go on, try to justify it.
So! When a hurricane comes proudly don’t accept help should you need it. Cry because they are here and cry because they aren’t when needed. What a load of crap y’all are full of.
So you couldn’t justify the regiment for this purpose. Thanks for proving the point.
And your other example? Done, repeatedly, here and elsewhere, without a ‘regiment’. Clearly Cayman needs better multi-role distributed emergency response capabilities. The regiment is not it.
Really. I just phone in my order and they deliver.
More handouts.
Exactly. I bet even the children could manage to order groceries online from Fosters. Just people being lazy and feeling entitled to free stuff again for no good reason.
Although I think the lockdown was nothing more than a knee-jerk response to fear; I do applaud the efforts of Foster and the regiment in getting supplies out to these families caught up by this foolishness.