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Letters to the Editor
We need top-level police to visit Spanish Town
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Dear Editor,
We have all been seeing the rise in crime in Spanish Town. Police and soldiers have been “at it” for a very long time. The police and soldiers cannot prevent sustained crime and violence in any town, the onus is on the community. If you keep doing the same thing every day and get the same results, why keep doing it? Change the strategy.
When you have a community that's in the state it is in – filthy and out of control – what do you expect? It seems nobody is in charge of the town.
I suggest that Minister Peter Bunting take a walk through Spanish Town, just as previous National Security Minister Dr Peter Phillips did, and observe what is going on there.
We were the first organisation to address crime and violence in Spanish Town and yet, for years we have not received any funding. We are not a political organisation. I have made several attempts to call the relevant people to see what funding there might be for instituting programmes, but have had no response. Yet I know that just a stone's throw away funding has been provided for other programmes. We need to remove the politics of crime, for it continues to destroy Spanish Town.
We now need the current high command to visit Spanish Town and have a talk with some of us. A few years ago Commissioner Hardley Lewin took the time to receive me in his office. Commissioner Francis Forbes was also very accessible. Also, Mark Shields, Justin Felice, Les Green and others have visited our organisation and that has made a big difference. The little girls and boys in the community knew these men had a finger on the pulse of Spanish Town. They got a sense that they cared.
Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch, is quoted in the press as saying: “We are facing some trying times and all of us will have to bond together with our effort. With this collaboration, we should get on top of things.” He could not have made a better statement.
Rosemarie Greene
Spanish Town Citizens Against Gun Violence
spntwncitizensagv@cwjamaica.com
 
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2/15/2012
In Jamaica the "chicken needs to come to roost" for us to see any sort of change. Right now 99% (unverified figure) of all gun violence victims are the poor. Why do you poor people keep forgetting that your lives are not worth anything.
2/15/2012
This crime problem can be solve easy , A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN ST. CATHERINE . Look In the west now it so nice now if SISTA P is Afraid just call brother Bruce. The Police is now afraid so we need the army now we cannot pay soldiers just sweep and drive top army officials any more they of to come and fight for us and get rid of this crime monster which our POLITICIANS BREED UP. WE CANNOT HEAR FROM SISTA P, ABOUT THIS CRIME PROBLEM . IF THE WEST WAS COOL ANY WHERE CAN COOL . DO IT NOW SISTA.
2/15/2012
This is a disgrace the PNP AND JLP breed these murderers and now they are out of control so to speak . These gangs are used by the PNP AND JLP at elections times to make certain they stay in power . Now the Police Force are afraid of these gangs Jamaica is 14 Parish these men cannot hide , we have the army doing nothing , i have friend who is soldier and all he does is fix AC units at camp while these gangs are killing people. WE NEED A STATE OF EMERGENCY NOW, LOOK AT WEST IS SO NICE NOW.
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