From Jo & Co

Dear Readers

It has been a challenging 2025 for most of us but we are not going to go through all of the terrible disasters and man made ones that have taken place throughout the past year.

We must look forward and make sure this new one will be so much better. We can learn from all the passt mistakes that have been made by others and even the ones we have ourselves made.

As the great prophet Isaiah said (amongst many others), “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” . (43:18-19 (NIV) 

Thank you for reading all the news stories and blogs we have published on ieyenews all these years and our readership has increased to over six million hits per day from all over the world. Africa is a new outlet for us and we receive around ten stories now a day from them to place.

We have a new government and it didn’t take long for them to shock us bothl. My (Joan) roots go back to the very first settlers here (the Boddens and the Watlers) and I narried a foreigner – and Englishman – and we have been married for over 41 years. Is he still a foreigner? Has he done nothing to benefit our Islands in all those years? Or has he contributed a lot like so many others?

We shudder to think who will take us out as we are both old now with no transport of our own. The Red X volunteers who collect us each week are foreigners. The many athletic awards our Caymanians have received through 2025 have been due to a large part by the coaches – the majority by foreigners, most of whom do this for free.

We must stop here as this is a thank you message only and not a political rant. But we do thank EVERYONE. Note: EVERYONE!!!

We leave you with the final verse of one of my (Joan’s) poems:

“In having a piece of God’s beautiful earth

In Grand Cayman the home of my birth.

So I give thanks to God above

For giving me life and all this to LOVE.”

Jo & Co

PS (from Colin) Even with Jo having worsening dementia and at the age of 91, she can still write poems and have an opinion.