Do we really want justice?

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I often wonder when the Jamaican society will change. The shooting death of Sashagay Fairclough and the injuring of her mother in an attack in the tourism mecca of Ocho Rios, St Ann, more than a week ago was heinous. The young lady’s promising life was snuffed out by the barrel of a gun.

We are in a society where no one hears or sees anything. But let us thank these creators of modern technology that is now being used to bring justice to the table.

I thought that by now, as is customary in our society, I would hear that the streets of Ocho Rios would be littered with tyres, roads blocked, and citizens crying out, “We want justice!”

Is it justice we really want? At times, when the security forces are left with no other alternative but to neutralise a threat, it’s the same cry! People are saying they want justice, while others insist, “Dem neva haffi kill him. I don’t understand.”

Friday, September 13, 2019, is a date that one family will never forget. Let there be a change. Let us all help put an end to the monster of crime.

JONATHAN GALLOWAY

jonathangalloway1@

yahoo.com

St Mary