Battling the scourge of rising crime and violence and some of the world’s highest murders rates, Caribbean nations are appealing to the United Nation for help.
They are urging the world body to help them stem the unrelenting flow of guns and ammunition to the region.
From the Bahamas, Jamaica and St. Kitts-Nevis, countries with some of the world’s highest homicide rates, Trinidad and Tobago, which already has a state of emergency in place because of crime, and Antigua to Barbados and St. Lucia, the plea to the world body is essentially the same: act quickly to pass an effective global small arms treaty that would make it much more difficult for rich North American and European countries to export deadly weapons that are fueling crime.
oh please;
Dont be surprised to know now that “reparations” has become part of social science of all ex slave societies…code blotted out
It’s is always an internal struggle among descendants of the african slaves to determine our priority as a people struggling to live in dignity.
Didnt you know that the victims and their descendants of the holocaust are being repaid in the billions annually.
While we acknowldege these atrocities that they endured, what is wrong about acknowledging what we have endured which happen to be the worst in human history including that of the holocaust.
It’s just over two hundred years since shattel slavery is over. Imagine Africans had to endure almost five hundred years. Therefore, the effects of slavery wont go just like that; especially when we see an apparent version of slavery thriving among us… it is economic slavery and is played out mostly by the descendants of shattel slavery….both victims and predators
Some of us are so conditioned to hate their own that they favour anything but not the victims.
Hence we can justify reparation for the jews but water down reparations for the Africans.
All the crime and violence in the caribbean stems from the fact that the everyday people are not empowered enough to take care of the individual child because of the crisis all famillies from african descent MUST endure to put bread on the table and send their children to school….then find work.
NO MAN WAS BORN A CRIMINAL. HOW DO WE REVERSE THIS GRAVE PHENOMENON?
There are laws in the books since from slavery keeping the everyday people in perpetual check since we are always suspect…..that is because abolition only compensated the slave owners and not the slaves….
check it out….
who did most of the work?
what preparation was made for the slaves after slavery…NOTHING…
we are still struggling in our nothingness while institutions and individuals who benefitted from slavery are the same ones who benefit from this present economic slavery…
IF YOU ARE NOT AN AFRICAN, YOU WILL NEVER SILENCE THE VOICE OF JUSTICE… IF YOU ARE AN AFRICAN, THE MOST WE CAN ADVISE YOU TO DO IS GO DEEP WITHIN AND LISTEN TO THE CRIES OF OUR FOREFATHERS WHO TOILED AND DIED for people who had NO REGARD OF THEIR HUMANITY….
WE ARE THERE TO REMIND THE WORLD THAT PEACE can ONLY BE ATTAINED WITH JUSTICE…..FOR ALL…AFRICANS too
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONCERN
Target, Great Job and wisdom. We need more wise and prudent souls like you on this earth.Tthank God for people like you. Please continue to educate the un-wise fools of this earth.
Why are we again asking for reparations for Slavery? Slavery was an appalling event, but there have been many other crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust and various acts of Genocide, ( which are still occurring. )
The Undeveloped and Developing Nations receive billions of dollars annually in Aid from the Developed Countries with the majority going to Africa, vast parts of which do not have any of the Natural Resources that a country like Dominica is blessed with.
We cannot go on forever blaming our poor status on the acts of our ancestors.
It is also a matter of fact that our black ancestors were the ones who hunted down, killed and sold their fellow man to the Slavers.
The issue of escalating crime within the Caribbean Nations is not related to Slavery – the answer must come from better policing, apt punishment, education for our children and using the Natural Resources of this Blessed Country to generate an income to make us self-sufficient. We cannot expect to receive handouts forever.
united nations,
we are asking for reparations for all indigenous peoples and all African slaves… first….then everything good will be added up
ADMIN I HEAR A CONTAINER OF GUNS CAME ON THE PORT AND WENT STRAIGHT UP TO MORNE BRUCE. IS THAT TRUE???