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feed our children, many of whom without a square meal at school, cannot
function academically.
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And while the Minister of National Security comforts himself, if not us, with
his latest statistics on crime, murder and mayhem, our country, undeniably
continues to slip inextricably into deepening social and moral decay – not
even the Church is spared in this phenomenon of spiralling crime – neither
are our graves safe from criminals who have now developed a thriving
business in selling used caskets.
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The statistics can’t hide the fact that our women and children are now
being slaughtered in record numbers by ruthless predators, scammers and,
conveniently, we are told, men of unsound mind. Just last week a female
warden assisting school children in Clarendon to cross the streets, was
murdered in cold blood right before the children.
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Meanwhile the contractor on the North Coast Highway project is besieged
by criminals who act with impunity and arsonists set fire to Riverton City for
selfish economic gain, yet again placing the country’s health and
productivity at risk. Where is our law enforcement?
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Other consequences of the savage austerity under which we now abide,
include the government’s willingness to summarily dishonour its financial
obligations to its own citizens as mandated by the Courts of the land, to the
point where our Financial Secretary is called upon to present an Affidavit to
the Court stating why the government cannot make payments which are
ordered by the Court.
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In a recent unprecedented case where the Court ordered payment to a
private company, the Financial Secretary in an Affidavit to the Court said “If
the additional unplanned expenditure is not compensated for by either the
imposition of a new tax measure or the reduction in planned expenditure in