Homicide Number 5

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Homicide Number 5

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15 comments:

Anonymous said...: Police cannot stop crime; they can only carry out the investigation once the crime is committed.
Otherwise, we'll need a policeman for every civilian.
Our embedded Zulu mentality forces us to take matters into our own hands rather than through a court system we don't trust and understand.; January 17, 2012 at 8:08 AM
Anonymous said...: Do the maths St Lucians.
5 homicides in approx. 2 weeks would predict approx. 125 for this year, 2012. This means we can look forward to entering the record books as the highest homocide rate in the world. What a magnificent honour to look forward to receiving!
Now, ask the question: "What's wrong with St Lucia?"; January 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Anonymous said...: #2:"We can look forward to entering the record books as the highest homicide rate in the world"? Your thought proces is troubling. How about the root causes of these acts,and enacting new methods to deal with them? It would be ironic if you fell victim to your sensational prognostication
.; January 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...: well said above.; January 17, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Anonymous said...: How long before a tourist is shot? Then we will all go hungry.; January 17, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Anonymous said...: U LAZY BASTARD U!!
GET SOME MEANINGFUL WORK!!!!

U AT 4:15PM.; January 17, 2012 at 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...: @ January 17, 2012 5:36 PM

Last time I looked, tourism accounted for the majority of GDP.

Are you implying that St Lucians in the tourism trade are lazy? Their tax contributions are paying for... pretty much everything that the Taiwanese aren't!

Don't underestimate the hard work which goes into tourism, & don't underestimate the importance of tourist spending.

Things are bad enough with the new Minister of Tourism - if a tourist gets shot, it's game over for the 'lazy bastards' you refer to who serve our tourists, and a large portion of the island's GDP.

Have pity on the poor fools who know not that we depend on visitors for economic survival...; January 18, 2012 at 4:02 AM
Anonymous said...: It is a sad state of affairs. I don't know why our young men are killing each other over senseless acts of violence. There needs to be the strengthen of our social agents to ensure our future generation does not grow up with that type of mentality that does nothing good for the growth of our social fabrication and more tangible, our economic viability (tourism).; January 18, 2012 at 4:51 AM
Lucianscorpio said...: @ 4:51 on Jan 18 ~ The chickens have come home to roost: It all boils down to break-down of the FAMILY & a general turn away from God to a more secular way of life, which lets us do what we want when we feel like it. Social agents (government, school, church, etc.) are not the answer. The transformation of the mind/attitudes which is so desperately needed can only be done within a family setting.

We have so many "latch-key" kids who are largely unsupervised while single mom (or dad or granny) struggles to keep bread on the table. Our kids are bombarded by enticing portrayals of sex & violence in the music they listen to & programs they watch on the "idiot box" (We can't censor tv; it infringes on freedom of expression; plus we need to give the people what they want. So more gore! More intrigue! More scandal!) These kids learn to glorify the almighty dollar & disregard the things of God...

So with no moral/spiritual anchor or sound role models, our little girls learn to see themselves as "sex-kittens" before they reach 18. Our little boys grow up with "get-rich-or-die-trying","bad-mun," & "gangsta-doh-play" mentalities, which is what we see manifesting itself today in SLU... They seldom make it past the age of 35. (How many middle-aged gangstas do you know of?)

The vicious cycle perpetuates itself when we add teenage pregnancies, incest, sexual abuse, guns, illegal drugs etc. into the fray . . . When we watch the international news, we see evidence of how the policies we have copied wholesale from the USA etc have played out in their society, yet we steadfastly plod on down our path of impending destruction. . . (shakes head . . . huge sigh) . . . .; January 18, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Armchair Anonymous said...: 125 homicides for the year 2012 ... highest homicide rate in the world ... hmmmmm. Somehow the mathematics do not add up; considering St Lucia's population against larger countries ... hmmmm!! Mind boggling math!

My opinion: cause of violent crime in St Lucia? No pride, no family commitment, low literacy rate, no sense of values, especially for self and life. All this -in ONE generation!!

Can it be fixed?
STATE: The worst educators!
POLICE: They cannot do it, since they themselves suffer the same afflictions.
TEACHERS: Their power can only reach so far; even some of them suffer the same afflictions.
CHURCH: This has been lost for some time. Some of their flock still try their best to abide by the "good book".
OURSELVES ... there it is!! But - where is the guidance? from the teachers, churches, police, state? Some of us cannot even look within ourselves for guidance.

This is clearly NOT a political issue, but a CHURCH, STATE and FAMILY issue.; January 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Armchair Anonymous 2 said...: To LucianScorpio ... After I posted my blog, THEN I read your comment - we seem to be on the same page!

Even the language the youth of today speak (pigeon English) is a sign of degradation.; January 18, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...: In these times, crime, extreme violence and numerous murders usually reflect an unfair nation - economically and socially; extensive research and studies have proven this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Add lack of moral training, the debased state of pop culture, i.e., television, most pop music and movies, lack of upstanding pop heroes, a poor education system, and add the DRUG WARS to the mix, and you have what the average young St Lucian (and of other nations too) must cope with on a daily basis.
Of course, no government can cure all these problems but ours could do a lot to fix several of them; and this needs to be done VERY SOON: before it’s too late to save our island and people.

First, unemployment MUST be addressed immediately, followed closely by education.

If Taiwan sincerely wanted to help us – and not just patronize us with pathetic little handouts – they would help us with 2 particular and persistent problems: (1) our rotten prehistoric infrastructure – the poor quality of our dangerous roads and highways, the redevelopment of Hewanorra, and our Soufriere geothermal development for producing cheap and plentiful energy to attract a large variety of industries (Nevis and Dominica are moving full-steam-ahead with theirs) and (2) help build our current fledgling industrial complex into the mini-Taiwan of the Caribbean. If Taiwan really wants to do this for St Lucia, it could be done quite easily; but the question remains, “do they have any such lofty goals for us?” Well, I hope our new PM does; because if all these things were accomplished, without a doubt they would generate tens-of-thousands of jobs for St Lucians - and down goes crime!!; January 18, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Anonymous said...: @ Above, the UWP was the means by which we could have accomplished all the things you listed above; but we foolishly got rid of the UWP. The party that withstood the 2008 world economic crisis; Hurricane Tomas; a drough; etc., and still registered a 4.4% growth; the highest in the region.; January 19, 2012 at 5:41 AM
Anonymous said...: @ 5:41PM
PLEASE WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR HEAD?
GET IT SMACK FAST BE4 IT IS 2LATE!!
SO IT CAN GET A KICK START.

UWP WAS THE WHAT U SAY??

I BELEAVE U ARE JUST JOKING MATE??; January 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Lucianscorpio said...: @ Anonymous Jan 19; 5:41 : Elections were almost 2 months ago, don't you think it's about time you took off the yellow-coloured glasses???

The UWP were in office for a full (5 YEAR) term, during which time they received millions from the Taiwanese gov't. When exactly did they plan on unveiling much less executing those plans for development which you alluded to? Apart from the Central Castries refurbishment & a few "ti-canal" projects (hastily conducted within the election year)what else does the country have to show for all of that money? . . .

Re the 4.4% growth: If I say I placed 1st in class, you'd say great!! But what if there were only 3 of us in that class? And my "top score" was 39%? That means I'm a "bright dunce", a "scholastic idiot". My point: Statisticians' sources of raw data & their motives need to be examined before we shout their info from the hilltops. . .

The economies of the US & other metropolitan countries (with all of their natural resources, manufacturing industries etc.) are still struggling to stay afloat. What are the odds that here on this tiny rock in the Caribbean Sea (with virtually no cash crops/bananas, no jobs & a few tourists on a shoe-string budget) we'd have registered that spectacular growth what you're quoting? During a GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECESSION no less!!!

Maybe those "bright sparks" who claimed to have pulled an economic rabbit out of the hat now need to take up consultancy for the next 5 yrs: sharing their remarkable acumen in business/economic matters with the fat cats on Wall Street & the heads of governments of the European Union who are having trouble balancing their nations' checkbooks . . . lol; January 24, 2012 at 6:33 PM

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