Sat Ma­haraj

Part One

The dark, mur­der­ous and vi­o­lent days of the past decade, shows no sign of abat­ing as the coun­try en­ters 2014.Al­ready there is a spate of das­tard­ly acts per­pe­trat­ed on sev­er­al cit­i­zens across the coun­try. Demons are stalk­ing both or­gan­i­sa­tions and pri­vate cit­i­zens in our land.A cat­a­logue of rec­om­men­da­tions and sug­ges­tions is be­ing of­fered to ad­dress and rem­e­dy this sit­u­a­tion.

How­ev­er, no right-think­ing per­son can rea­son­ably ex­pect any im­me­di­ate res­o­lu­tion since the gen­e­sis of this prob­lem will not per­mit any quick fix.A prob­lem of this mag­ni­tude is the re­sult of many years of in­ef­fec­tive and in­ef­fi­cient mea­sures.Many peo­ple still seem to be grap­pling with and are un­aware of the di­men­sion of this prob­lem and the ex­tra­or­di­nary ef­forts that will be nec­es­sary to cor­rect what is now a men­ace.

Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty is be­ing as­signed to the gov­ern­ment, po­lice ser­vice, re­li­gious bod­ies, NGOs, CBOs, par­lia­men­tar­i­ans, par­ents, etc.Each en­ti­ty has some re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in re­solv­ing these is­sues. It can­not be done through a sin­gu­lar ef­fort in our undis­ci­plined so­ci­ety. Those who have tak­en care­ful note would have ob­served the num­ber of heinous crimes be­ing com­mit­ted by young peo­ple be­tween the ages of 15 and 30.

This tells a very sig­nif­i­cant sto­ry about fail­ures that haunt our coun­try. There are young peo­ple who have not ben­e­fit­ed, for a va­ri­ety of rea­sons, from the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem over the past 15 to 20 years.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers