About seven months ago, the first item on the evening television news had to do with the addition of recruits to the ranks of the police force. Minister in charge Horace Chang also promised that there would be more recruits coming soon. The minister has had some successes with a reduction in murder and rape, among other offences, in recent times.
Over the years, however, this ministry has been considered a ‘graveyard’ as ministers are always blamed for everything that goes wrong. Following this news item came a story confirming the information on a video I received earlier in the day. At a high school in St Elizabeth, a junior student accidentally stepped on the shoe of a senior student.
Choosing the junior’s head as a target, the senior kicked and punched him into a state of unconsciousness. Shocked students shook the junior, looking for signs of life before lifting him and journeying on foot into the town looking for medical help. Shaking a person with head injuries and then moving him/her is strictly forbidden.
But since there seemed to be no adults at that school, the students should be lauded for their efforts. It was the third medical institution to which the boy was placed before he got the treatment he needed. Weeks later, he still had pain and swelling around his eyes, and we can only guess the extent of the long-term damage.
Who will shoulder the costs? More recently, I got a video that eventually went viral. It depicted a half-naked woman using a cutlass to d.