WE NOTE with approval that more and more persons are speaking out about the prevailing conditions in the country.
We believe the judgement of history will be particularly harsh on those in influential positions who have remained silent in the face of rising corruption, lack of accountability and runaway criminality.
The latest voice of concern is that of the chairman and managing director of RJR Communications Group, Mr. Lester Spaulding who was speaking to businessmen in the West over the weekend.
In a forthright speech, he urged Government to begin weeding out corruption in the Jamaica Constabulary Force. He warned that the country could not continue along its "slippery path without serious repercussions."
The admonition is timely, because there is no indication that the political administration is alarmed about the sinister developments which are threatening the body politic and the society.
As Mr Spaulding observes, a catalogue of scandals absorbs the country and there is real danger that if nothing is done to purge the system and punish the guilty, malfeasance will be accepted as the norm.
That time is not too far away if one reflects on the fact that children are arming themselves, there is a high level of illiteracy among school-leavers, arrant disregard for human life, rampant extortion and soaring criminality.
Evil flourishes and will eventually triumph in the context of a scared and silent society.
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