Dear Editor,

I am astonished at the number of people who claim that children are our future. I find it equally astonishing how people like them tolerate the senseless crimes against the nation’s children. How can any country tolerate the killing of five-year-old Christina Salmon or five-year-old Evan Sebastian Spence? So innocent and defenceless.

That boy could have been a scientist who could tackle the issue of global warming, (which his forefathers created), or that girl could have been the one to alleviate world hunger (which her forefathers are yet to solve). I can’t believe that the same people, who rejoice when Usain Bolt or Veronica Campbell triumphs, sit and watch the life of a potential Usain Bolt or Veronica Campbell senselessly taken. When will the lives of our children not be just collateral damage? Jamaica is allowing the criminals to tell our children that you can be anything you want to be when you grow up, if and only if you live to see when you grow up!

Unless this country comes to the conclusion very soon that violent acts against any child will not be tolerated, they can just kiss Jamaica’s future goodbye. If Jamaica is unable to protect the weak, the defenceless, the vulnerable, the innocent children, who is to say that there will be a guaranteed future for Jamaica?

What will it take for Jamaicans to wake up? How many more of Jamaica’s children have to die? When will enough be enough? Or is it that enough is not too much, not too much to act?

Annie Jones

Montego Bay, St James

achildwithnofuture@gmail.com