Death Is A Business In Jamaica Maybe The People Do Not Want An End To Crime.…..

A person feeling ill generally seek medical attention. A medical professional (doctor)then diagnose what ails the person, then counsels the individual on treatment methods.
It’s up to the party feeling ill to decide whether to trust the recommendations of the Doctor or get a second or even a third opinion. Generally there may be variations in the treatment methods but if the initial examination was done properly the diagnosis seldom change. Even though different doctors may have differing opinions on the prognosis.
Simply put, if you have cancer , you have cancer, you may decide whether you want Kemo- therapy, try a holistic natural approach or sit and wait to die.

The same is true for a coun­try expe­ri­enc­ing the rav­ages of crime. It may chose to pur­sue the same path it has always cho­sen for itself, which has not changed a sin­gle thing, engage in rad­i­cal change , or sim­ply sit and wait to be destroyed by it.
The prob­lems which per­sist­ed twen­ty five years ago when I was a young Jamaican cop are the prob­lems of today mul­ti­plied ten-fold.
The very same peo­ple who told peo­ple who called into their radio talk shows to com­plain about police to stone the police sta­tions are the very same peo­ple offer­ing up excus­es and jus­ti­fi­ca­tions for the Island’s inor­di­nate crime num­bers over two decades later.

According to some sta­tis­ti­cal esti­mates 30.1% of the country’s peo­ple were aged between 0 and 14. In addi­tion, 62.3% were between 15 and 64 years of age while 7.6% of the pop­u­la­tion of Jamaica were aged 65 and over in 2011.
This gen­er­al­ly means that the major­i­ty of the pop­u­la­tion are younger peo­ple who came of age in the post-inde­pen­dence era. This means a large seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion has no con­cept of a Jamaica of rel­a­tive peace and tranquility.

It comes as lit­tle sur­prise then that the less­er edu­cat­ed peo­ple would not ful­ly respect the soci­etal norms and dic­tates of say the 1960’s when the coun­try was a more cere­bral and pleas­ant place.
Those who could be con­sid­ered edu­cat­ed are prob­a­bly more indoc­tri­nat­ed than edu­cat­ed. The sources of their edu­ca­tion hav­ing been insti­tu­tions of indoc­tri­na­tion in how not to respect social order.

All things con­sid­ered the polit­i­cal philoso­phies which have dom­i­nat­ed the coun­try’s polit­i­cal land­scape for the greater part of the time since it’s sup­posed inde­pen­dence from Great Britain has been pop­ulist lib­er­al dog­ma . Ironically even as the coun­try’s strat­a­gems prove inef­fec­tive in cur­tail­ing crime the brain-dead ide­o­log­i­cal pup­pet-mas­ters dou­ble-down refus­ing to change.
They cling to failed ide­olo­gies which has brought noth­ing but ruina­tion and chaos as they grasp des­per­ate­ly at ways to con­vince oth­ers that life is not so bad.
That oth­er places have crime, that peo­ple from oth­er nations have no right say­ing Jamaica is not a pleas­ant par­adise but an extreme­ly vio­lent place.

The Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches some of the few able to see through the haze of gan­ga-smoke , alco­hol and deca­dence said in a statement.
Quote :  In recent weeks, Jamaica has wit­nessed the grue­some mur­ders of busi­ness­man Trevor Meikle, Corporal Judith Williams and United States mis­sion­ar­ies Harold Nichols and Randy Hentzel. “The JUGC extends deep­est sym­pa­thy and con­do­lences to their fam­i­lies and friends, mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the peo­ple of Albion Mountain, St Mary, and the peo­ple of the United States. The groups of church­es pray that God’s pres­ence and com­fort will under-gird these loved ones in this dif­fi­cult time.” The JUGC, in a release yes­ter­day, said that it has tak­en note of how life has become very cheap to some peo­ple and that con­tract killing speaks to the depth of deprav­i­ty and moral bank­rupt­cy that are being expe­ri­enced in the minds of people”.(Source jamaicaobserver)

Former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting also called for divine inter­ven­tion as a means to fix­ing the Island’s crime prob­lem dur­ing his sojourn as Minister. The present Minister of National Security Robert Montague too invoked divine inter­ven­tion as a means to fix­ing the problem.
I won’t tell any­one what to believe but if pray­ing is all you do it’s not enough.
Even as I per­son­al­ly wel­come the Church’s input into the dis­course I owe it to them to explain that pray­ing to God to fix our prob­lems is exact­ly not the way to go about seek­ing solu­tions for our problems.
In fact pray­ing and see­ing no result is destruc­tive as it relates to bring­ing new con­verts to the faith.
God estab­lished this world on prin­ci­ples, cause-effect, action-con­se­quence, neg­a­tive-pos­i­tive. As my Pastor suc­cinct­ly puts it han­dle the things you can han­dle and the things you can’t han­dle ask God to han­dle those.
When we can’t han­dle them God will. He sim­ply won’t han­dle what we clear­ly can but refus­es to.

Moses lead­ing the chil­dren of Israel out of Egypt was caught between the red sea and Pharaoh’s army . Moses decid­ed to kneel and pray, a sil­ly strat­e­gy with an advanc­ing army com­ing up in a hur­ry. God com­mand­ed Moses to get up and cast his rod across the red sea, accord­ing to the Bible the ocean opened up and the peo­ple passed through .
Whether one believe those accounts or not , metaphor­i­cal­ly the mes­sage remain the same. We have to do for ourselves.
Literally every mir­a­cle (not mag­ic) that Jesus wrought was inclu­sive of par­tic­i­pa­tion from the ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the miracle.
♦Go fill up the Jars with water.( before they were turned into wine).
♦Go show your­self to the Priest.
♦Go wash thy­self in the Jordan River , (this one required much faith as the Jordan riv­er was extreme­ly dirty at the time).
♦Pick up thy bed and walk.
♦Stretch forth thy hand.
♦Go thy way and sin no more.
♦Bring me the loaves and the fish.
Jamaica has the means to elim­i­nate most of the heinous crime plagu­ing the Island, the peo­ple choose to avoid doing any­thing about and so they must and will con­tin­ue to pay the price.

Denial, faux-patri­o­tism, ratio­nal­iz­ing, nuanc­ing, hair-split­ting, lying, false-par­al­lel­ing, justifying,equivocating, none of these actions will change the situation .
The fact is that there are too many peo­ple involved in eat­ing a food from crime.
As such speak­ing out about it will always bring howls of con­dem­na­tion from cer­tain quar­ters .We don’t all want the same thing. Jamaicans have an ingrained love affair with crim­i­nal behav­ior. The cul­ture has become increas­ing­ly tol­er­ant and acqui­es­cent to the crim­i­nal way of life as the pop­u­la­tion gets younger.

Politicians, police, cler­gy, judges Lawyers and every­one in between are heav­i­ly invest­ed in crime , it has become an eco­nom­ic reality.
People depend on mur­der to send their chil­dren to school. An entire sub-cul­ture has emerged out of the blood-drenched soil . Funerals are not somber occa­sions as they once were , they are oppor­tu­ni­ties to show­case the lat­est hair­styles and fashion.
Bands make mon­ey at funer­al celebration[sic]. Funeral par­lors have sprung up in num­bers , almost par­al­lel­ing church­es and rum-bars.
Carpenters, Masons, Sound-sys­tem, and the mul­ti­tude of ven­dors who show up at funer­al sites like vul­tures feed­ing on a carcass.
Such are the realities .…..

The web­site obitz​.com in an arti­cle said quote :In Jamaica we’ve noticed that funer­als are increas­ing­ly becom­ing cen­tres for enter­tain­ment and rev­el­ry. Dance-hall lyrics are recit­ed in pro­ces­sions, and at some ceme­ter­ies the lat­est dance­hall music is played from mas­sive speak­ers. In some respects this is not dis­sim­i­lar to the jazz funer­als in New Orleans, where the band accom­pa­nies the mourn­ers to the ceme­tery. But most of the lyrics in the Jamaican pop­u­lar cul­ture nei­ther have rel­e­vance to the Bible nor pre­tend to man­i­fest a the­o­log­i­cal dimen­sion. http://​www​.obit​s​ja​maica​.com/​t​r​a​d​i​t​i​o​n​s​/​j​a​m​a​i​c​a​n​_​f​u​n​e​r​a​l​_​t​r​a​d​i​t​i​ons

According to world population review Jamaica is a small island, but it makes up for its size with a high population density in comparison with much of the rest of the world. The total surface area here is just 10,991 square kilometres (4,244 square miles) and this makes Jamaica the 166^th largest nation on earth, when it comes to geographical area. For every square mile of Jamaican territory, however, there is an average of 252 people here, which converts to 656 per square mile and makes it the 49^th most densely populated country in the world. 39% of Jamaica’s residents live in parish capitals, according to the 2011 census, and the population of the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA) and all parish capitals was 1.04 million, which is a 5% increase since 2001. KMA alone has 88% of the parishes of St Andrew and Kingston.

The Élite in Jamaica can­not be unaware of these facts so as many includ­ing this writer wring our hands at the con­tin­ued shed­ding of blood there may very well be a plan by the pow­er­ful elites in Jamaica to con­trol pop­u­la­tion den­si­ty by doing noth­ing about it as a way at solv­ing pop­u­la­tion density.