Benefits needed for innocents shot by police
published: Monday | January 26, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

PLEASE GRANT me space in your paper to express my concern about the incidents of the beautiful citizens of Jamaica being damaged by police bullets. Recently I heard of Viola Barrett, a 60-odd-year-old, mother of seven children, who was shot on January 14, 2004.

Then there was the shooting of Nicole Webb, at the time a 20-year-old mother of three who was shot on Waterloo Road, while travelling in a taxi in September 2002 and myself, who was shot on October 22, 1995 at the age of 18 years.

I am urging the civic bodies concerned:

1. Minister of Security 2. The Human Rights 3. The Govern-ment 4. Sympathetic individuals 5. The Church and the Commis-sioner's of Police to institute a financial package, where person's who are innocently shot by the police receive benefits speedily to access medical attention.

We are, etc.,

THE PARAPLEGIC

DEVELOPMENT &

OUTREACH FOUNDATION

92 Hanover Street

King Street