NO MORE SHEDDING OF INNOCENT BLOOD!

Far too much innocent blood is being spilled in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica! Totally blameless working-class women, children and men are being injured and killed as the two halves of a venal ‘criminal/political’ establishment battle each other over the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke affair.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the Jamaican political establishment have no moral right to cause the spilling of the blood of the ordinary working-class residents of West Kingston in their violent search for their long time Jamaica Labour Party henchman - Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke!
The Jamaican political establishment must not be allowed to behave as though there is no connection between them and ‘Dudus’. After all, it is a well established fact that for several decades now both the Peoples National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have been wrapped up with many of the so-called "Dons" of ‘garrison communities’ such as Dudus Coke.
Thus, if ‘Dudus’ is to be held to be guilty, the political establishment must share in that guilt as well! And therefore, a system with blood on its hands and guilt in its soul cannot arrogate to itself the right to spill or cause the spilling of innocent blood!
The only moral course for the current Jamaica government to take in this very tragic situation is to make a public declaration to the effect that ‘Dudus Coke’ has escaped the dragnet, and to temporarily call off the current military campaign to locate Dudus, thereby bringing hostilities and innocent deaths to a halt.
And once the social climate returns to some level or normalcy, the Jamaica political establishment, inclusive of both the JLP and the PNP, must publicly admit their collective guilt in taking Jamaica down a path of political and social decadence.
They must publicly admit their guilt and concede that as a result they have forfeited the moral authority to lead the country. Furthermore, as part of the process of repentance and rehabilitation, they should propose the establishment of an interim government of national unity to oversee the construction of a new and reformed political order in Jamaica that will feature a genuine empowerment and involvement of the mass of ordinary Jamaicans, and a severance of all links with organized crime.
This, in our opinion, would be the moral and peaceful way forward. We very much doubt however that the Jamaican political establishment possesses the moral rectitude or the sense of responsibility to take this difficult but very necessary path.
Our Party also wishes to make it clear that we do not consider that the political decadence that is so graphically on display in Kingston is something that is confined to Jamaica! On the contrary, we consider this to be a phenomenon that is present, to some degree, in every single CARICOM country.
Indeed, the terrible display of death and destruction in Jamaica is symbolic of a process of social and political decay and decline that has taken hold in every single CARICOM nation.
The Caribbean anti-colonial leaders of the 1940's, 50's and 60's extricated our countries from the jaws of formal colonialism and established the initial basic foundations of independent national societies.
However, it was always clear that if our governments did not move on from there to deepen these very basic structures by genuinely empowering and involving the masses of people, and by setting our sights on the development of a collective, self-sustaining national economy, that a process of decay would set in and the initial good start of the founding fathers would be squandered.
And so said, so done! In Jamaica, the Seagas, P.J. Pattersons and Bruce Goldings have presided over the destruction of the initial good work of Bustamante and the Manleys, just as, in Trinidad, the Pandays and Mannings have presided over the squandering of the positive early start of Dr Eric Williams. And of course the list goes on and on, implicating every single CARICOM country, including our very own Barbados.
If ever there was a time for us to admit our mistakes and take fresh guard, that time is now!