PRESIDENT-ELECT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Doran Dixon yesterday urged those responsible for fixing the crime problem to start treating the situation as "desperately serious".
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| Students of the Mona Primary School are a picture of grief as they watched the casket bearing the body of their beloved teache r Paul Watson being taken from inside the Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church on Hope Road, |
"How many more young productive persons will have to die before we come to the realisation that we are in a crisis and those who have the duty... to stop this must begin to take it desperately serious?" Dixon questioned as he addressed the funeral service for Mona Primary School teacher, 26-year-old Paul Watson, at Andrew Memorial Seventh-Day on Hope Road in Kingston yesterday.
Watson's life was snuffed out by criminals who shot and killed him along with his friend Omar Campbell at a bar in Bay Shore Park, Harbour View, in Kingston on January 4. Three other people were also injured in the incident.
"It cannot continue to happen, and as a country we are killing those who are our future," Dixon lamented during the reflection on behalf of the Mico University College where Watson earned a teaching diploma, specialising in social studies and physical education.
The JTA executive, who remembered the slain teacher as a unique and hard-working individual said, "Watson was a different kind of youth; he was the kind of person who got involved and was into everything." more
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