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Too many drunkards in our society

Dec 28, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Our society is plagued by young and old rum drinkers from all walks of life including men, women, young boys and girls and even children as young as ten years old. We are also the country that has produced the best rum and alcoholic beverages and we top the list now by producing tons of drunkards in our country.
As I read the papers daily I see lots of innocent lives are snuffed out by drunk drivers. The National Library’s Chief Librarian, Ms. Gillian Thomson, would have been alive today had it not been for a drunk driver. The police hardly put up reports or give statistics about ‘’deaths by drunk driving.’’ The police need to take away the licenses of drunk drivers for life and jail them.
Alcohol has been the destruction of the human race since the beginning of time and it has now taken a toll on our country with less than a million people. Alcohol has been the major cause of all the domestic violence in our country and even globally.
It has also been a contributing factor to suicide, murder, wife abuse, incest, accidents, cussing and fighting and the unending list goes on. Alcohol is one of the major causes of poverty, family breakups, divorce and failures of our children in schools and universities. Alcohol is a drug just like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
As I travel through our country, I can see rum shops all over this nation. I just rode through a small village and counted over 30 rum shops. We have rum and beer sellers at all our bus and car parks; drivers of mini-buses and taxi drink all the time at these parks and they put their own lives in danger and those travelling with them. Rum drinking has affected lots of East Indian communities, almost all the bars and night spots are owned by East Indians who are alcoholics themselves. Domestic violence and suicides is more prevalent in East Indian communities in our country. I know of a Justice of Peace who owns a bar, grocery and gambling shop. He himself is an alcoholic; he hides his Justice of Peace sign because of his rum shop. How can a Justice of Peace own a Bar & Gambling shop? Maybe the Ministry of Legal Affairs will answer me that question?
I have seen bar owners selling rum and beer to school boys in their school uniforms. These people need to go to jail and many of them also sell drugs and run gambling dens.
If we will eradicate rum drinking, domestic violence, dangerous driving, etc. we must implement more serious laws by closing down all these bars and rum shops in our country and around our bus and car parks. We have become a land of lawlessness; we are just a few years away from becoming a nation of drunkards and drug addicts. We need to arrest it now before it’s too late.
Rev.Gideon Cecil

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