A most horrific year

The Editor: What a miserable Christmas this have been for the Basdeo family, not to mention the families of Anil Singh (St James), Kalipersad Maharaj and the list goes on. Instead of opening gifts under the tree, their families are instead gathering to wait for a phone call to negotiate the ransom, instead of Santa Claus’ sleigh dropping off gifts, these people are hoping to be dropped off somewhere in Carlsen field. Instead of being warm and cosy in their homes, these people are bound and gagged somewhere, down in a hole like Kelvin Harry, the multiple Aranguez victim who was kept in a hole, with nails on the roof to puncture his head. Grief, anguish and misery.  That’s the Government’s Christmas message, alongside high prices for everything under the sun from food to real estate.

Come to think of it, this has got to be the most horrific year for the nation.  I don’t know if there has been a single family that hasn’t been touched by crime - murder, robbery, extortion, you name it.  There has not been a single person not dragged down by traffic congestion, by high food prices, and flooding.  And all seems to be forgotten with the wave of the Balisier. It seems as though the new No-Bail Bill was really a license for kidnappers, since from the moment of its passage, kidnappings just took off. This is  the clearest demonstration of the ineffectiveness of so-called legislation when not backed up by swift police action.  Yet every night in Chaguanas, the police helicopter is overhead flying and flashing its lights and finding nothing. The blimp remains just that - B. Limp.

Lystra Marajh,
Glencoe