By the busy Stabroek Market area where buses wait for passengers and a police outpost stands, last week Friday a gang attacked nineteen-year-old Samuel Grannum who was a student at the Government Technical Institute (GTI). Three days later he died. When we talk about the depravity that plagues this country, all the ‘stink and dutty’ distractions, the carnivals of illusions and friendly politicians cannot mask the fact that we are a troubled people. And some might even conclude that we are a lost people with no sign of redemption.
The compassion and mercy that does exist sometimes seems insufficient to end the barbarity.
By the Stabroek Market area, where the voices of vendors are loud and everyone knows that nefarious activities occur under the clock, where thousands traverse every day, a gang was able to shorten the life of a young man, injure his friend and the police and multitude did not intervene in time to save his life.