Dear Editor,
Last week, a select group of young people had the privilege of attending a town hall meeting with US President Barack Obama at the University of the West Indies. For many of those young people, it was no doubt a lifetime highlight.
Within days of that meeting, this nation awakes to the tragedy of a quadruple killing in Clarendon, which claimed the otherwise promising lives of four young Jamaicans, three of which were but mere children.
The cruelty of the act carried out by these crazy cowards of society, sadly, simply adds to the growing number of young people for whom there is to be no lifetime highlight. These brutal murders, as horrific as they are, also come a few days after the nascent life of an 11-month-old infant was extinguished, and merely weeks after a wave of teen slaying gripped our land.
Since the beginning of 2015, there seems to be no havens wherein our children, and young in general, can take refuge. Our schools are becoming as dangerous as our streets, and our homes fare no better.
This latest act of national filicide, one hopes, will not just be another ripple in the vast oceans of blood which now wash our streets. Indifference and outrage must give way to concerned action. If not, we may just have to resort to establishing many more crying monuments across Jamaica in memory of lost generations.
Noel Matherson
noelmatherson@gmail.com
Will the crazy cowards stop killing our future?
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Last week, a select group of young people had the privilege of attending a town hall meeting with US President Barack Obama at the University of the West Indies. For many of those young people, it was no doubt a lifetime highlight.
Within days of that meeting, this nation awakes to the tragedy of a quadruple killing in Clarendon, which claimed the otherwise promising lives of four young Jamaicans, three of which were but mere children.
The cruelty of the act carried out by these crazy cowards of society, sadly, simply adds to the growing number of young people for whom there is to be no lifetime highlight. These brutal murders, as horrific as they are, also come a few days after the nascent life of an 11-month-old infant was extinguished, and merely weeks after a wave of teen slaying gripped our land.
Since the beginning of 2015, there seems to be no havens wherein our children, and young in general, can take refuge. Our schools are becoming as dangerous as our streets, and our homes fare no better.
This latest act of national filicide, one hopes, will not just be another ripple in the vast oceans of blood which now wash our streets. Indifference and outrage must give way to concerned action. If not, we may just have to resort to establishing many more crying monuments across Jamaica in memory of lost generations.
Noel Matherson
noelmatherson@gmail.com
Will the crazy cowards stop killing our future?
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