Helping Cubans and others is a Caribbean necessity
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June 22, 2026
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It was once unlawfully forbidden by the Cayman Islands government, as well as their owners, the United Kingdom, to help Cuban migrants passing through the islands. Not with water, food, fuel or medicine, nothing at all, under threat of arrest. Local people were shocked by this and helped anyway, me included.
Despite a great fear of the sea with many, I ventured one evening with another local activist, on a boat to supply some Cubans who had been turned away in a flimsy boat, unlikely to last many miles. There were men, women and older children of all ages.
Brave, wet souls seeking freedom.
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