PORTLAND, JAMAICA: 102-y-o Henry Percival Cameron says men's hearts have grown desperately wicked....recalled that crime was once non-existent, people did not depend on politicians for food and politics was clean.

AT 102-years-old, Henry Percival Cameron recalled that crime was once non-existent, people did not depend on politicians for food and politics was clean.

CAMERON... sin has reached a standard that men
 do anything as they like now (PHOTOS: KENYON HEMANS)

But that was true decades ago. Today he cringes at how things have changed for the worse.

"You could go up and down and carry out you business as you like and no one don't interrupt you like how they do it now," Cameron told the Jamaica Observer during an interview at his Black Hill home in Portland recently.

"Sin has reached a standard that men do anything as they like now. Things have changed. But I give God thanks for the changes of life. Men's hearts weren't so desperately wicked like now. men's hearts change up. The Bible tells you that men's hearts grow desperately wicked," he continued.

Cameron was born on April 23, 1912 in Port Antonio, Portland. He attended Buff Bay and then Tranquility Elementary schools.

He worked with the Ministry of Agriculture from 1931 to 1985 as a banana pollinator, producing seeds from bananas that included taking the pollen from one variety of the fruit and implanting it into another.

Cameron said that back then, Jamaica was better off politically, and that standard continued when Sir Alexander Bustamante took over the reins of the country in the 1940s.

"Politicians used to treat you good. Whatever you need and you asked them if they could make it possible they would do it," the centenarian recalled. "But things were so cheap in those days that you didn't have to worry them because you get things to buy easily." more