No boundaries

THE EDITOR: A witness to a fatal shooting at Movie Towne remarked “No one expected something like this, especially in a place like that.” That just about encapsulates the mindset here. Unless that person has been vacationing on the moon, surely he or she must be aware that daily fatal shootings are the norm now, not the exception, and whilst I agree most take place in the battlegrounds of Morvant/Laventille, these things have no boundaries. We have watched for decades Jamaica sink into deeper and deeper drug and gun violence and instead of using it as a cautionary, avoidable bad example, we have, willy nilly followed suit just as we mimic the worst, not the best of North American behaviour. By the way, on Page 5 Newsday June 6, one article quotes the Prime Minsiter as saying “Gang warfare no threat to average citizen” while the other quotes Chin Lee as observing that the Movie Towne killings “had the potential of endangering the lives of innocent citizens.” Maybe the PM has seen too many movies!

GEOFF HUDSON
Port-of-Spain