Dear Editor,
Crime is an aspect of life that all citizens must deal with as it seems to have been around as long as civilization itself. Crime has ravished communities for centuries and one assertion is that crime is more prevalent in poor inner-city neighborhoods than it is in equivalents that are more affluent. Finding the root source of this plague has been on the minds of criminologists and others for centuries. This is because the control, reduction, and prevention of crime has been a major problem in our society and many others. There have been many different angles that have been studied as the potential cause of crime. Currently, the three major aspects include a lack of education, living in poverty, and being raised in a single parent home. Each of these perspectives offer insight to crimes but it seems that none can stand alone. Crime is a complex issue that may stem from many sources, but a lack of education, generational poverty, and the rupture of family structure each seem to play a prominent role in criminal activity.
Since, the closure of the Wales Sugar Estate, crimes, crimes and more crimes are the talk of the village, recently a prominent business man was robbed, 65-year-old pensioner was robbed, even the little detergent, clothing in the backyards are now gone missing, to me and others this is an act of desperation. No jobs, no opportunities, are presented in the lives of these villagers, so the way to eat, and to feed some of their families are to steal and rob.
I guess the prediction made by the People’s Progressive Party is so true; it’s now a village that is left behind the back of the APNU administration, it’s a ghost town so to speak, depression and thoughts of suicide are on the minds of many because of the lack of resources. Villagers are complaining that the privatized companies are now cutting their wages, our village needs another source of hope, to this administration where is good life you promised, its nearing to election and there’s no sight of the good life.
Sincerely,
Pt Surendra Tiwari
