Priest at Remembrance service: Gun violence an epidemic in T&T

Priest at Remembrance service: Gun violence an epidemic in T&T

Rapheal John-Lall
Published: Guardian
Monday, November 9, 2015


Reverend Carl Williams, of the Anglican Church, is calling on youths to “put down their guns” as one way to solve the wave of violence that is sweeping the country.

“Our young men of T&T need to listen to the voice of God. We need to criticise the violence of these youths and those young men need to get rid of their guns. It is now an epidemic in T&T. It is the young black males who are committing these crimes,” he said.

Williams was speaking yesterday at the Remembrance Day Sunday service at the Anglican Church, Trinity Cathedral, Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain.

After his sermon, which many felt may have broken the tradition by not dealing with the usual topic of the period which is used to pay tribute to those who died in the two world wars, a procession was held to the Garden of Peace on the cathedral compound to remember the victims of past wars and also victims of gun violence in T&T.

During his sermon Williams spoke about “consequences” for young people who break the law and commit crimes. “Enough is enough. We need to stop this violence as it has gone too far. I do not understand how one person can take the life of another person,” he said.

He blamed lack of parental guidance for young people taking up a life of crime and said the church and civil society must provide an alternative.

“There is no need for guns. We need to talk to each other. In the newspapers, when we see pictures of people shot to death lying on the ground, that is a cowardly act.

“We need to mentor our young boys and show them love, or else we will have another generation taking revenge because of their dead parents. The church is also offering anger management classes,” he said. He also pointed to crime statistics of over 300 people being killed this year in T&T.

“We are going to put up plaques of all those who have been killed in this country so that people can remember them. It is not only the victims of past wars we will remember, but also of the violence in this country,” Williams said.

He said the crime scourge is not a problem for T&T only, however, since the phenomenon is occurring all over the Caribbean and the region must look for solutions.

pHUCK THEM ALL..THE PRIESTS AND THE REST OF THEM!  BULLETS IN THEY SKUNT.  BULLETS FLYING EVERYWHERE..STRAYS KILLING ANYONE AT ANY TIME!  PRIEST ARE NOT SAFE EVEN ON THE PULPIT.  A BULLET CAN FLY THERE TOO AND WHACK A PRIEST AS HE RAISES THE COMMUNION WINE TO HIS LIPS

so when the bullets can reach the priests they come out to plead with the youth of current Dodge City, as the pope came out to Atilla pleading god to stop the carnage in the name of humanity.  but is their own 'sacred' bodies deh concerned about not humanity.

IT WUD BE BETTAH IF THE PRIEST AN' DEM WENT TO THE GUN MERCHANTS IN AMERICA WHERE ALL THE GUNS ARE MADE, TO PROVE A CASE AGAINST FUH FLOODING THE WEST INDIES WITH SMALL ARMS...THEN AND TAKE THEM TO COURT TO TRY STOP THE FLOW OF GUNS IN THE REGION..NOT ONLY TITTY.

bu how ::confused:: commerce is the american religion and it is not illegal to sell guns. 

and I am sure that the gun sellers of america sell them 'legit' and have paper to show dat. what the re-purchasers from the american gun sellers do with the guns they buy is not their business.  the priest and dem will have no case

what the skunt and dem have to do, they have refused to do for 5 hundred years..build a decent society in which all have a chance.

but they cyar do dat because it wud have no wuk in such a society fuh greedy, lying priests who depend on human ignorance for a living. so they come and plead in the name of god for the young to stop shooting, depending on the very ignorance they have created for centuries to kick in and get the fool kids back inline..their line

this time I hope the kinds do not stop until every priest is dead and the system they built dead too... and a new and better social organization begun