Murder most foul

The Editor: A young innocent life was snuffed out by the hands of the savages that call themselves, human beings. Savages nutured by an inept government, incapable of stemming the criminal tide, and clueless as to its origin and cause, being part of the problem. Today I grieve for Mark Rattan, a promising young doctor to be, whose life, dedicated to medicine, and saving lives, was so savagely cut short.  His only crime was that of travelling ten minutes in his father’s car from his home to purchase, probably, some chicken and chips. Where were the guards at these outlets on the Curepe Junction? Where  were the police on this busy intersection, where pimps, transvestites and homosexuals roam? The pain that this young and innocent boy received, and the thrust of steel in his tender body, was the pain and anguish of the thousands of young people who are trying, in the midst of this turmoil, to make themselves better people and better products,  in and among the citizenry of Trinidad and Tobago.

I saw it on their faces at the funeral service.  I saw the agony and distress, the hopelessness, and the futility of  their life ahead. What a legacy those in authority are leaving for us.  Mark’s death is not only a wake-up call to take our future back into our hands, from the clueless people who now govern us, but to render the date of his death, a living memory for a life which started so gloriously and ended with such savagery. His death marks the lowest point in our fight against crime and disorder, against indiscipline and intolerance, against anger and jealously, against savagery and visciousness. God Bless him and his soul, innocent in its purity. Rest in Eternal Peace. To his parents who had him for 18 years, and saw their hopes and their vision vanish in a few moments.  May God grant them the courage to face up to his untimely death.
God Bless them all.

Wendy Ra
St Augustine