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This weekend has been a bad one as two more people I know have added to the statistic of almost 900 persons murdered in this country (of 2.6 million people) since the start of the year.
I took this photo while on a political motorcade through the parish of Trelawny. It was posted on Flickr last year. This house is located in a village called Dromily near Bunkers Hill and his inhabited by a Rastafarian man, his wife and children . Imagine my surprise when I watched the news and saw this house. The rasttafarian was killed on Saturday (chopped to death), allegedly to prevent him from sending someone to prison. May his soul R.I.P.
I woke up on Sunday morning to hear that my half sister’s cousin who I know quite well, was shot and killed in St.James (a few miles away) as he entered his home. He was a security guard who also had a case in court. R.I.P. Neil. There is no evidence that the court cases are the causes, but isn’t it co-incidental?
The question is, when will it end? When will we stop slaughtering our people?
The irony is that visitors are welcome and unmolested. They are hardly bothered and they will never face the crime and fear that our citizens face, which keeps leading me to a statement I’ve made several times…Jamaica is not for Jamaicans.
We live in a state of paranoia, each person wondering if they are next. I have known so many people who have been killed, it gets scary to go home at nights. I have looked at so many dead persons in the last few years. I have stood over the dead lying in the road or while they are put on ‘display’ as they reach the local funeral home so much so that I have become used to it! Time and time again you hear of persons ambushed entering their homes. It has to stop. It is no fun living here anymore.
In the meantime, our murder rate continues to be in the top three (per capita) in the world! It is better to be a visitor than a resident of this country…..no harm will come to you.
