Submitted by Austin
To set the tone for this submission I’ll begin with an excerpt from this week’s Nation Online: “ CRIME has escalated over the last 12 months and Commissioner of Police, Darwin Dottin, is also concerned over the growing menace of drug trafficking and abuse…..”
I refuse to except that corruption and self-promotion are two key attributes we should expect from elected officials, especially now while we are faced with major economic and social challenges. I am also honestly at a lost for words to explain our current political inability to seek and implement much needed reforms in addressing these current challenges.
The proof that we are on the wrong track is in the rising crime rate and drug abuse we are starting to see in many Bajan villages.
The Jamaica story can serve as an example of what happens when effective economic and social reforms go ignored for decades, with the poor and disenfranchised taking matters into their owe hands when enough is enough.
As a class oriented society the silence of the middle class majority to demand solutions from elected officials in addressing our ills, only serves to destabilize their protected “pick” futures as the class that can best articulate needed reforms.
As such Bajan instigators for proactive solutions who call for social and economic change, increasingly find ourselves having to use considerable effort and ingenuity, like the blogosphere, to affect public awareness and change.
As a nation we also appear to exhibit a deep rooted “fear of change” that can only be associated with paralysis, immobilization, confusion, and indecisiveness…all things exhibited in the Barbados House of Parliament daily.
Looking back throughout our history the LORD ALL MIGHTY has blessed us with transformational leaders at critical times. Leaders like the Honourable Errol Barrow, Tom Adams and the like, who while not perfect, served the PEOPLE of Barbados first and not themselves as evident in lasting legacies that cannot be denied.
With that said, “Lord Hear Our Prayer” as such leadership of the past is needed now in Barbados more then ever before. Neither party is demonstrating the political “know how”, “will” or “concern” for the people in addressing many of our current economic and social challenges.
While I pray all goes well for us as a nation while navigating our way through these troubling times, I remain uneasy leaving our fate in the hands if poor and ineffective political leaders who exist in both the DLP and BLP parties.
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