Thanks Earl Moxam for letting us know of this series of articles focusing on the Pero Cays.

Makes for interesting reading . . .

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080323/news/news4.html

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080323/news/news2.html

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080323/news/news1.html

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080323/lead/lead7.html

This is very sad!!!! this was never the way of life on Pedro Cays years ago. Hopefully teh Government will get involved.

I read them and found them to be very interesting.

Never knew women were allowed to go over there. Years ago when I lived in Jamaica I heard that it was illegal for women to be on the Cay.

I never knew that was the conditions of living on the cays.I personally think the government should have been involved a long time ago in helping to make it a safer place for those fishermen to earn a living. I do hope they will do something quickly because, from what I see and read the health of not just the poeple living there is in danger but, the whole Island because the seafood will (if not already) become contaminated to the point where illness will be seen in differnet ways.
I adore fish but, after seeing this I think I will go back to beef.
I hope someone will bring help soon.