Crime Within The Caribbean RegionToday!

November 02-2008:

Crime Within The Caribbean Region Today!

I have been watching CIN TV today, and was incensed by the deplorable state of killings in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and the state of Jamaica. This cancer is getting completely out of control. Something desperate is urgently needed to curb this spate of criminal behaviors.

Is it a lack of social respect for authority, and authority figures?

Is it illiteracy and gross ignorance of the socially accepted norms of mainstream society that is at risk?

Is it national malaise that is breeding this pandemic?

Or is it the lack of political will, competence, and determination from the political authorities within this region, that is allowing this pandemic to spread and grow?

Whatever it is, tourism will continue to suffer, and the coffers of those countries that depend on the tourists to survive will pay the price.

It is now imperative that expeditious actions be put in place, to bring people together to brainstorm about the solutions to this problem. Church leaders, Trade Union Officials, Police officials, and Judicial officials. All agencies MUST be incorporated in this effort to stem this runaway train bounded for social perdition.

Legislation MUST be enacted to make crimes against tourists a felony! Afterall, these are the people that these countries need in order to survive ecnomically!

Derryck.
NYC.