Editorial

Representatives from the Cayman Islands Ministers Association attend meetings of the Cayman Islands Recovery Operation (CIRO) and pastors have had their phone numbers published in the CaymanSpirit – making themselves accessible to anyone who wants to talk.

Religious leaders are also getting directly involved in the relief effort on a national level.

They are surely showing strength in crisis, as they shoulder extra work, extending care to everyone in the community — not just to their parishioners.

They are setting an example for us all – possibly giving us as a community pause to contemplate how well we are each doing in terms of reaching out to others. Have we started easing off on helping our neighbors? Do we think that we’re so firmly on the road to recovery that people no longer need assistance? Are we now so involved in work, in making money, that we are moving away from the early post-Ivan atmosphere of sharing and caring?

Working together and helping our neighbours made Cayman’s communities flourish. Now as we rebuild and restore, as we pledge to make things even better, let’s use the values we built with the first time.