The screams of the nation’s children should wake us. Young children burning in fires should shake us. The twenty of Mahdia 2023 taught us painful lessons, but still the risks remain for children of this nation. In low-spirited places even the children are not spared.
Death announcements no longer show the faces of a majority elderly, but the young among us seem to be perishing at an alarming rate. We can ask, what great evil hangs over this nation? Who embraced only the darkness so that the light would be dimmed?
We know that often when we see headlines informing us of tragedies, that recklessness, negligence, and arrogance play a part. The plight of the Guyanese people is certainly not only because of supernatural forces. However, when day after day, flesh is burnt, penetrated by bullets, chopped, strangled, mangled, and drown we must begin to question ourselves.