One year after the launch of this blog-site, it is a bitter-sweet experience for me as I celebrate the success of my passion, while at the same time paradoxically mourning the death of Khajeel Mais.

One year ago this young man whom I have nev­er met forced me to launch my web­site with a solo arti­cle, an arti­cle which reg­is­tered my out­rage at his death.

A full year lat­er the fam­i­ly of this young man has not seen any jus­tice in the death of their son, the shoot­er is out on bail and from report­ing in the Jamaican media he has­n’t even turned over the mur­der weapon to the police.

What that means is that both he and his lawyers have col­lec­tive­ly thumbed their noses of the joke of a crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem which obtains in Jamaica.

I will come back to this issue in a minute but there was a very good report­ing on this sto­ry in the Jamaica Gleaner:http://http://jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/x6/ of July 3^rd 2012.

We will make no judge­ment on the direc­tion of the case, nei­ther will I pre­dict the ulti­mate res­o­lu­tion. I will how­ev­er draw your atten­tion to the fact that the alleged shoot­er is a Jamaican so-called big man, he fled the juris­dic­tion after he alleged­ly com­mit­ted the act, have not turned over the weapon to police, and has not coop­er­at­ed with law-enforce­ment, any one of the afore­men­tioned cri­te­rias, com­bined or by themselves,these char­ac­ter­is­tics would ren­der an accused inel­i­gi­ble for bail in most juris­dic­tion, not so in Jamaica.

Despite the con­flu­ence of neg­a­tives by this accused as it relates to bail, he was prompt­ly giv­en bail. One of the biggest myth per­pet­u­at­ed on the unsus­pect­ing pub­lic in Jamaica is that Bail should not be puni­tive, as such crim­i­nals accused of seri­ous crimes are prompt­ly released back into the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion, irre­spec­tive of the grav­i­ty of their crimes or the num­ber of times they com­mit the most egre­gious crimes. This is the largest piece of idio­cy being prop­a­gat­ed by the pen­ny mil­lion­aires who live above Cross-Roads.

As a result the job of law enforce­ment is made dou­bly dif­fi­cult,. If bail is not sup­posed to be puni­tive, then maybe it should be. Maybe it would pro­duce a degree of deter­rent to some of the killers oper­at­ing with impuni­ty if they knew that when caught they would not see the light of day. How about that bleed­ing hearts?

As the Mais fam­i­ly grieve the loss of their pre­cious son, there are no com­fort­ing words com­ing from the politi­cians, none from the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty, after all I’m sure Carolyn Gomes is watch­ing to ensure no one steps out of line when they deal with the killer of Khajeel Mais.

Carolyn Gomes Dir. JFJ

You see as I have said for years, decent peo­ple who are try­ing to do the right thing in Jamaica are endan­gered species, no one care for them, not politi­cians, not preists, not the crim­i­nal rights activists, there is no mon­ey to be made from their defence, no mon­ey to be had from abroad for advo­ca­cy on their behalf.

To the Mais fam­i­ly I empathize with your pain, I under­stand your exas­per­a­tion, feel free to grieve, at the same time what I can do is to con­tin­ue to shine a light on your case so that peo­ple all over the world may read , get out­raged and demand jus­tice for your family.

God bless you.