Mould children from early age

This will require parents and teachers who are willing to assume the responsibility and pay the price necessary to produce a new generation of citizens who will show loyalty and respect for their country.

It makes no sense lamenting the ever increasing murder rate each year if the country continues to have uncaring fathers and mothers who would not take the necessary time to mould their children from an early age so they would not live a life of crime.

Let’s try to have a life focused on discipline, production and tolerance — watchwords of the nation given by our first Prime Minister, the late Dr Eric Eustace Williams, back in August 1962 when the country attained independence.

Kelvin La Roche St James