Dear Editor,
It is of grave concern to many Jamaican citizens that so many indigent, homeless and addicts are strewn out on the sidewalks and roaming our streets, especially the great King Street, downtown, all along Justice Square which houses the majestic Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and the aged General Post Office.
It does not stop there, Old Harbour and Mandeville towns are really a disgrace.
Day by day our parliamentarians, judges, lawyers, doctors, people from every strata of society, walk by these folks. What is their excuse? Are they negligent and uncaring? Should nature just take care of them? Is it too massive a problem to tackle? Or are they only seen as outcasts of society?
The Government has idle buildings and lands all over the country. In my estimation, some of the tax dollars that go into wasted multimillion-dollar contracts, entertainment and exclusive and vehicles, could be channelled into fixing some of these buildings, giving meaningful employment to Jamaicans who are willing to work hard and care for them.
The public fully understands that those who run the country need to be paid well and taken care of, but strategic plans for the indigent must be included in the big picture. Let's hear heated discussions in Parliament on how they plan to take care of these folks and not how they want to belittle each other. It's time they lift their standards, show they care not just about yourselves but about the helpless. Please, devise a plan.
The general public understands that a few of the street people are there by choice, but for the majority no choice is available. When a person has no choice in life, hope dissipates quickly, and whatever life spits at them they take it without caring if they live or die, so the cycle continues. It's not enough for them to be handed a meal at some time during the day and then feel the wrath of rain or sunshine in all its intensity with no roof over their heads.
Please put your heads together and solve this problem before it becomes a national crisis. We are a nation that cares. Our motto still remains "Out Of Many, One People".
A Moses
mokitchens@yahoo.com
Help the homeless
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It is of grave concern to many Jamaican citizens that so many indigent, homeless and addicts are strewn out on the sidewalks and roaming our streets, especially the great King Street, downtown, all along Justice Square which houses the majestic Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and the aged General Post Office.
It does not stop there, Old Harbour and Mandeville towns are really a disgrace.
Day by day our parliamentarians, judges, lawyers, doctors, people from every strata of society, walk by these folks. What is their excuse? Are they negligent and uncaring? Should nature just take care of them? Is it too massive a problem to tackle? Or are they only seen as outcasts of society?
The Government has idle buildings and lands all over the country. In my estimation, some of the tax dollars that go into wasted multimillion-dollar contracts, entertainment and exclusive and vehicles, could be channelled into fixing some of these buildings, giving meaningful employment to Jamaicans who are willing to work hard and care for them.
The public fully understands that those who run the country need to be paid well and taken care of, but strategic plans for the indigent must be included in the big picture. Let's hear heated discussions in Parliament on how they plan to take care of these folks and not how they want to belittle each other. It's time they lift their standards, show they care not just about yourselves but about the helpless. Please, devise a plan.
The general public understands that a few of the street people are there by choice, but for the majority no choice is available. When a person has no choice in life, hope dissipates quickly, and whatever life spits at them they take it without caring if they live or die, so the cycle continues. It's not enough for them to be handed a meal at some time during the day and then feel the wrath of rain or sunshine in all its intensity with no roof over their heads.
Please put your heads together and solve this problem before it becomes a national crisis. We are a nation that cares. Our motto still remains "Out Of Many, One People".
A Moses
mokitchens@yahoo.com
Help the homeless
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