The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I wish to bring it to your reader’s attention that in this giving season we should all try to be as generous as we can as there are many among us who are on hard times. This is reflected in our crime statistics as many misguided persons take the only path they are able, to get “their share”.

To all those many girlfriends who will soon be wearing jewellery rightfully belonging to others, I hope you know that you encourage this wickedness by accepting these gifts. It is such a pity that we are so adrift in this criminality that we lose sight of our participation.

To those persons entrusted in the granting and supervision of public contracts and permitting of ventures and collection of public funds who do so with a mind to their own enrichment, I say that your criminality is as shameful and is no less a wickedness. One that your family and friends should help you to abandon. Your doings are known of and seen by that proverbial “man on the bus” and he is driven to greater consternation and difficulty in following the righteous path.

This lack of moral authority and compass is one reason why we as a country are suffering this downward spiral into further wickedness. We tolerate and encourage wrongdoing when we should be calling the wrongdoers out and bearing witness of this wrongdoing so as to check it. We have a reputation as a country of being backhanded and under the table guys and we laugh it off with the comments that “we have always been pirates”, and “hand come hand go”. Out of this comes a greater difficulty in enforcing the law and prosecuting the wrongdoing. This difficulty is largely because it is convenient, to those involved, for it to continue as it covers their past wrongdoing.

Unfortunately we appear to have reached a point where we no longer understand that we have a perverted view of right and wrong. We begin to overlook the obvious infractions and classify them as acceptable because others have done it before and not been punished or we justify them as being of little or no consequence or worse still we fail to see the consequence. I call on all right-minded persons to understand that this “one family” we have needs to be brought up on brakes and held accountable while we are still very much alive. My many thanks to the COP.

SIMON RODEHN

Nassau,

December 9, 2015.