Our Police……..AGAIN!!!
Well, here I am, its Saturday morning at a few minutes past nine. I’m not on call this weekend. I rose at 8:30 and am here loafing around taking it easy with my cup of tea and reading the Gleaner on line. Things seemed pretty cool until I read this story. I became pretty annoyed, believe me, I had to let off a blood claat or two as this Policeman irresponsible nuh rass! First of all, if he had apprehended a man who was smoking a ganja spliff (marijuana), and he started to run, does that offense warrant him shooting after him? Listen me, ganja is NOT legal here, however, it is readily available for all who wish to use it and there are many who do so, both privately and often quite openly in public also. In other words, it is not legal, but there are folks who use it as if it were.
So, the life of an innocent ten year old girl has been lost. I can’t say I blame the residents in her area to have demonstated, as we live in a country where our government officials do not act when people vent their feelings about injustice by the simple act of writing letters and so on. We have to mek nuff noise, burn tyres and block roads in order to be heard! Yes, it would make us appear as if we are nothing better than hooligans. Indeed, one of the Ministers in the ruling party who may well become the next leader of the PNP has said that, “People who play by the rules get shafted!” 
I will end by saying, my sentimests go out to the family of this girl and I really hope that the investigation of this case will result in some sort of compensation. Whatever happens though, it cannot put the breath of life back into this child, and that is sad indeed!