THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE PHOTOGRAPHS of three-year old Melesha Shaw and eight-year-old Tasha-Kay Swaby appearing in The Gleaner recently, tell a story of the agony of Jamaica at this time. We are bawling with Melesha and weeping with Tasha-Kay. But what are we doing? We are blaming everybody else for what is happening. We blame the Govern-ment for not doing. We blame the Church for not doing. We blame civil society for not saying... and we confess that we ourselves have failed.
Others are blaming the police and are therefore advising them on how to operate in their attempts to apprehend the criminals. In fact, the criminals who perpetrate appalling crime and violence in the society seem to get away with murder and may even feel protected.
There are those who would like to see the law enforced, but there are others who regard the enforcing of the law as revenge. Where do we go from here? What are we going to do for Melesha, Tasha-Kay and the hundreds of other little children and big ones too and all of us.
Maybe we should all kneel down and pray and get up and plan and work!
I am, etc.,
ELSIE SAYLE
21 Hopedale Mews
Kingston 6
