To whom shall we turn?

However, in Morvant and in Laventille, the adults are getting theirs off in public, with truces accompanied by tentative hugs and prayer circles, while the core bunch of “trucees” harbour deep, unadulterated hatred, is mistrust, grievance, malice, revenge and suitable cache of appropriate and assorted weaponry. Who is fooling whom?

When our police officers are seen not to be relying on the direction of their own superiors and have to resort to the DPP’s Office for guidance in substantive instances, especially where arrests have been made, then we have a serious problem with their true ability and capacity to get to the evidence associated with such crimes, particularly, but with all crime, generally.

It is not a secret that the country is beset by vicious and violent crime on members of the public — innocent and not so innocent. But our politicians appear to be none the wiser as to these occurrences.

For a situation to be so entrenched over so long and agonising a period, and the people charged with the responsibility to make their first priority “the public good” acting in oblivion to everything that is hurting the rest of us, is beyond comprehension. Come on parliamentarians, make the public good your first priority and you will soon realise that your docile, reactionary, late and limp responses to serious crime and other national crises are exacerbating the problem.