Roleli Speaks

This week-end the police ended the lives of five(5) alleged gunmen in Montego Bay, Jamaica. One of those dead turned out to be a Collin Palmer, leader of the Collin Palmer Gang. What caught my eye was that he was a Calabar Graduate, Mico Graduate and a former teacher at three of Montego Bay's prominent High schools in the 1990s. His nickname was "Teacher". What went wrong? How does one with an interest in teaching students to be better persons and helping them fit in to society end up leading a group of outlaws and becoming a misfit. We get a little hint from one of Mr. Palmer's friends as reported in the story. This friend said he spoke with Mr. Palmer and encouraged him to change his ways but Mr Palmer's response seem to have been that he had no choice as he had no work and he had children to feed. The question is who is going to feed those children now? It is a pity he did not consider the possibility of this being his end. It would be interested to get his ful...

Before I wish you happy New Year, let me express my condolences to the family of the Lyn's, policemen Eubanks and Genus and others and their relatives who have lost love ones to the senseless violence occurring in the country. I would like to express my sympathy to the blind man, Mr. Elliot, who fell in to a hole while walking on one of Kingston's pothole riddled sidewalks and has struggled to get medical attention from the Comprehensive Clinic or Kingston Public Hospital after four (4) days. You can just imagine the problem he has if motorists blessed with vision can't avoid potholes on the deplorable roads in the country. Why does this country have supposedly two top entertainers, 'BM' and 'BK', mashing up stage shows while arguing about what each did or could not with an 'angel' and that rubbish continues to make the headlines and clogging the airwaves. We also are waiting to see if the Trafigura money described as "peanuts" and "ch...