Dear Editor,
We have all heard someone say: "Yuh betta no sick or get ina trouble in dis ya country (and be poor) or dawg naam yu suppa!" They are in effect speaking about the poor health system and poor justice system that is our current experience in Jamaica.
An 82-year-old family member recently fell and injured her shoulder. After a whole day at the hospita,l and in much pain, she was eventually treated and told to return the following Wednesday to be reviewed by the doctor.
She returned the Wednesday, as was instructed, and after half-day, the 82-year-old was told that all she came for was to make an appointment for the next week, without which she will not be able to see the doctor.
She had to be transported from a distance in the country the day before, to stay with her son, to enable her to reach the hospital early in the morning. And that was to only make an appointment, which her son or another family member could have done for her.
Is this experience familiar to anyone? "If yuh poor ina dis ya country, dawg naam yu suppa!"
A young man of our church family has to face the justice system and his family was told that he would be before the courts one day in the week. After much effort to get the exact date, the family was given a date only to attend the court and found out that the young man would not be there on that day, but "possibly" the following day.
Again, is this experience familiar to anyone?
But the reality is, there is no help beside God. Man, in and of himself, cannot fix this malaise. No prime minister can, have or will ever be able to fix this malaise. Have we not yet learnt this as a people? Neither Andrew Holness nor Audley Shaw can fix it, for it is the very fallen nature of man that makes this fix impossible.
Did Security Minister Peter Bunting mean it or truly understood it when he said: "only divine intervention can help us"?
There is no salvation, no help, but by looking unto God in Christ. O God, grant that we may believe and act on this truth.
Millicent Battick
Sbat65@gmail.com
'If yuh poor ina dis ya country... only God can help'
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We have all heard someone say: "Yuh betta no sick or get ina trouble in dis ya country (and be poor) or dawg naam yu suppa!" They are in effect speaking about the poor health system and poor justice system that is our current experience in Jamaica.
An 82-year-old family member recently fell and injured her shoulder. After a whole day at the hospita,l and in much pain, she was eventually treated and told to return the following Wednesday to be reviewed by the doctor.
She returned the Wednesday, as was instructed, and after half-day, the 82-year-old was told that all she came for was to make an appointment for the next week, without which she will not be able to see the doctor.
She had to be transported from a distance in the country the day before, to stay with her son, to enable her to reach the hospital early in the morning. And that was to only make an appointment, which her son or another family member could have done for her.
Is this experience familiar to anyone? "If yuh poor ina dis ya country, dawg naam yu suppa!"
A young man of our church family has to face the justice system and his family was told that he would be before the courts one day in the week. After much effort to get the exact date, the family was given a date only to attend the court and found out that the young man would not be there on that day, but "possibly" the following day.
Again, is this experience familiar to anyone?
But the reality is, there is no help beside God. Man, in and of himself, cannot fix this malaise. No prime minister can, have or will ever be able to fix this malaise. Have we not yet learnt this as a people? Neither Andrew Holness nor Audley Shaw can fix it, for it is the very fallen nature of man that makes this fix impossible.
Did Security Minister Peter Bunting mean it or truly understood it when he said: "only divine intervention can help us"?
There is no salvation, no help, but by looking unto God in Christ. O God, grant that we may believe and act on this truth.
Millicent Battick
Sbat65@gmail.com
'If yuh poor ina dis ya country... only God can help'
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