SOUTH FLORIDA – There’s a Bob Marley track which states, “Man to man is so unjust, You don’t know who to trust…”. That is the fact being performed out in a lot of the English-speaking Caribbean at the moment. It’s a phenomenon that’s removed from new, however it has turn into scary for people who find themselves used to a extra laid-back, easy-going existence.
Within the central parish of Clarendon in Jamaica, eight people are gunned down on Sunday night, eleven of them hospitalized. In Trinidad’s Sister Isle, six folks together with a fifteen-year-old boy and a lady are killed by the police after they go on a theft spree throughout which they abused their victims.
Folks in an space of Barbados are scared by the sound of gunshots within the nighttime. They’re scared to go away their properties. Antigua and Barbuda involved about unlawful weapons coming into the nation.
What makes the Jamaican state of affairs doubly scary is {that a} video recording is making the rounds on social media. A younger man threatening the lifetime of the prime minister. As if that was not egregious sufficient, this man says the prime minister can not cease mass killings just like the one in Clarendon parish Sunday night. And, investigations to date recommend the task for the eight killings got here from the Southern United States.
Questions on Human Violence
The query has to due to this fact be requested. “Is Jamaica, are the international locations of the English-speaking Caribbean going to easily descend into utter chaos”? Or, “Are the cheap amongst us going to assist put an finish to this particular form of inhuman barbarity”?
Photograph Credit score: Leroy “Dreamy” Riley
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