Commentary

Wrong doers must be exposed

EDITORIALS WRITTEN ON crime in Jamaica are by far too many and far too frequent for anyone to do anything but put their hands on their heads in dismay.

Last week it was reported that our Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe was urging Jamaicans to speak up about crime, because as he eloquently put it, "if you talk you going to dead, if you don't talk you going to dead." As he insists, and we agree, our silence will be our demise as far as conquering crime is concerned.

But the stress of crime and the slow and unsure dispensation of justice is what drives fear into so many victims and family of victims. It is this numbing fear that drives them into silence.

Our lead story today speaks of a family that is on the verge of extinction from criminals who have killed the parents and are on a mission to kill the children who threaten to have them brought to justice for their crime.

It is a hard choice. Expose crime and run the risk of dying ­ because the risk of dying for doing the right thing is not a rarity, more and more in Jamaica it seems to be a reality. However, the consequences of no action and the turning of a blind eye are unthinkable. We must gather the courage to speak out and point out those who are bad among us.