Surrender to criminals

THE EDITOR: Couva has lost one of its finest sons with the horrific murder of Gerard Punch of Fotocraft Limited. This senseless act is testimony to the ongoing folly where two ethnic parties have been fighting over the cash register instead of carrying out the mandate of serving its constituents which its members swore to do upon taking their seats in the House of Representatives. Coupled with this we are saddled with a police service which apparently has surrendered or tacitly sent this message to the criminals. Outgoing Commissioner of Police Hilton Guy’s lament of having only 7,000 officers to serve a population of 1.2 million would have had credence of these 1.2 million people were all criminals. I wrote before that the battle against crime is being lost; more and more, this is proving to be the case with each passing day.

MC DONALD JAMES
Couva