Dear Editor,
The world, developed and developing alike, celebrated on Sunday what is now known as International Women's Day. This festival of freedom, though rightfully highlighted and embraced here on The Rock, was no doubt diminished in flavour as it was cast somewhat in the shadow of absolute death which has robbed some of the most vulnerable among us, our children, of their lives.
Over the last couple of weeks, this nation has held its breath as it awakes daily to the news of a country's self-implosion. The spectacle of death which not so long ago darkened the Westmoreland skies has found itself now blackening the horizon of the east, as another young female, a child, a Jamaican child, has been brutally slaughtered.
The stark similarities which have characterised both cases of murder are horrifying: grown men preying on and impregnating young 14-year-olds and ultimately killing them in a most cruel manner. How many more of these crimes are we going to allow as a nation? How many young girls must be robbed of the chance of one day celebrating International Women's Day?
Action certainly, not tears, not talk, but co-ordinated action must now hold sway in our land.One way in which the process of taking action can begin is by crafting and enabling a sex offenders' registry. This is long overdue; this database will no doubt go a far way in ensuring that our children are at least a little bit safer in their own country.
Noel Forbes Matherson
noelmatherson@gmail.com
Sex offenders' registry needed
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The world, developed and developing alike, celebrated on Sunday what is now known as International Women's Day. This festival of freedom, though rightfully highlighted and embraced here on The Rock, was no doubt diminished in flavour as it was cast somewhat in the shadow of absolute death which has robbed some of the most vulnerable among us, our children, of their lives.
Over the last couple of weeks, this nation has held its breath as it awakes daily to the news of a country's self-implosion. The spectacle of death which not so long ago darkened the Westmoreland skies has found itself now blackening the horizon of the east, as another young female, a child, a Jamaican child, has been brutally slaughtered.
The stark similarities which have characterised both cases of murder are horrifying: grown men preying on and impregnating young 14-year-olds and ultimately killing them in a most cruel manner. How many more of these crimes are we going to allow as a nation? How many young girls must be robbed of the chance of one day celebrating International Women's Day?
Action certainly, not tears, not talk, but co-ordinated action must now hold sway in our land.One way in which the process of taking action can begin is by crafting and enabling a sex offenders' registry. This is long overdue; this database will no doubt go a far way in ensuring that our children are at least a little bit safer in their own country.
Noel Forbes Matherson
noelmatherson@gmail.com
Sex offenders' registry needed
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