Shame not to help family

I left being ashamed of my country and its government. How does a family lose home and livelihood from gang violence and be ignored? What is the Minister of National Security doing about this? Is it that our women and children are disposable and therefore we ignore the fact that everyday a child or woman is being killed for mind-numbing reasons? Can a gang move into any community and cause havoc as our leaders talk and talk with no action? To the Minister of Housing, how does one qualify for housing? This woman is a citizen who owned her home, has submitted all her paperwork but is still homeless even after that story aired. She has a special needs child that she alone is taking care of.

Are we supposed to wait to all be slaughtered by the criminal element? Is it really going to be easier to bury our children and women than to put a stop to the carnage? This woman is autistic and in spite of all her struggles she continues to make sure her children become responsible contributing citizens.

She is homeless because of gang violence in her community. This single mother needs urgent help and while citizens have reached out, she needs housing for her and her children. What are their futures if left on the streets? Our Prime Minister boldly said mothers of this country are raising monsters. It isn’t because she was raising monsters she’s homeless.

It’s because she was a law-abiding citizen who refused to be part of the problem our county is facing.

Is her reward to bring her children up from a street bench? Is our country facing a future of lawlessness because we know standing up would mean losing our lives or our homes? So we pretend not to see until it is on our doorsteps? The Prime Minister says this country has no terrorists. So what do we call the gangs or the government that fails to protect us from the gangs? Shame on us.

Kurt Campble Couva