OBSERVATION: Youth In Deep Trouble

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YOUTH CRIME

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YOUTH IN DEEP TROUBLE Observation by Makeda M

Just looking into the eyes of our youth tells the whole story.

They look as if they have given up; some are just in limbo, while others are pushing back with crime and violence.

A visit to work places, banks, government reception, security posts, or just walking the streets, establishes a lost generation among the failures of their adults.

All that is budgeted for our youth is a colonial styled education without frills. Gone are the days of extra curricular activities which forced discipline and encouraged skills.

Our generation of the colonial era not only had household, yard and animal chores, children were subject to terrible beatings by parents for wrong-doing. All that is now considered outdated and corporal punishment of children is frowned upon.

The school’s curriculum is still geared to teaching to read, write and spell, all the other subjects are for getting into schools of higher learning, and not applied to investing skills into the economy by a young and talented scheme.

Each year hundreds of young people are dumped into the government and private workforce without ceremony or consideration of their future. They are just given ‘jabs’ with no thought of growth and ambition.

Their passion gets watered down and ultimately wasted, as the daily grind of small island life and the badmindedness of old plantation prejudices deplete their value, leaving them sad looking and dull.

The attitude of those whom offices and banks place in reception, girls, well made up and well dressed but sullen, no pleasantries in greeting customers, no real helpful involvement, monosyllabic and aloof – they are everywhere!

Gone are the days where young people were encouraged to learn a trade for dark days, when jobs might be few, and the ability to do something with one’s hands filled the gap between jobs.

Herding animals, learning mechanics, dressmaking or embroidery, cooking classes, baby-sitting and childcare, among all things small island communities demand, our children learned and delivered after school.

It is these extra curricular activities which evoked the finer attitudes to life and community involvement, which are so important and now missing in our lives and the lives of our children.

Technology is great, but unless there is a foundation that feeds, clothes, and cares for its people and especially its youth, it is still pie in the sky, unattainable to most, and a crying shame!

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  1. LISTEN HERE…. Them living beyond means ungrateful kids want $8K per month job…..The bigger picture is social media yes social media which is the tech that is raising our children is the biggest issue…They wanna live like the artist they listen to…They wanna floss they wanna rock nice sparkly chains and roll in rental car AC…..They wanna go RISE and all the other fetes and floss on the lil girls from the villages…….Solution….Robbery….Crime…….I am built like that I am just like King Von… I am just like Foolio and Bloodhound Q50……Just like the Trinibad artist 6IXX and 7EVEN never afriad to shoot up a boy…..THAT IS THE ISSUE!!!!!! It is poison unleached on the youths and they will continue to be influenced and will imitate…..

  2. Plasters do not heal sores.
    They cover they sore so that peope do not see them.
    The youths were crying out.
    Rather than deal with them the matter was politicized.
    The PeeeeeeeeeM started walking with his head in the cloud.
    For how long?
    Well whatever goes up must come down.
    The PeeeeeeeeeM’s head has come down
    The same gangs which were operating under the radar has resurfaced.
    It has resurfaced in a most deadly way.
    ABICE doesn’t provide a salary.
    All ghe youths who enrolled there still want to be seen.
    They still want to flash name brands.
    So as focused is shifted away from them they hit the public.
    Happy for this one who faced a tragic death.
    So deep are they in their criminal behavior that they had the sense to take the dead youth to Villa and said that’s where he was killed.
    More will face similar fate.

  3. ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD GONNA GET WORSE BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GIVING GOD THE WORSHIP HE DESIRE ,WE ARE LIVING LIKE CAIN WE WANT TO GIVE GOD WHAT WE WANT NOT WHAT HE DESIRE FROM US, HE SAID REMEMBER THE SEVENTH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY WE SAY FIRST BECAUSE IT MORE CONVENIENT TO US ….IN THE DAYS OF SAMUEL THE PEOPLE REJECTED GOD AND DESIRE A KING AND WE PAYING THE PRICE UP TO NOW ,WE ASK FOR A KING HE GAVE US AND THE KING LEADING THE NATIONS IN APOSTASY AGAINST GOD UP TO NOW BUT THIS IS OUR FINAL WARNING; REPENT REPENT REPENT CHRIST IS SOON TO RETURN TO REDEEM HIS PEOPLE. A FEW SCRIPTURES TO HELP ,WE ARE IN CAPTIVITY WITH SATAN SNARES THE LOANS THAT WILL SUBJECT US TO DISOBEY GOD AND HELPS TO REMOVE FAITH FROM GOD’S PEOPLE BUT THE BIBLE SAYS HE THAT LOOSETH HIS LIFE FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST SHALL FIND IT! HE ALSO SAYS HE COUNSEL US BY IN HIM FAITH TRIED BY FIRE HE SAYS HE REDEEM US NOT BY SILVER BUT IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION, WE DON’T WANT TO GO TRUE TRIALS WE WANT TO HAVE SMOOTH LIFE SO WE DO MANY THINGS AGAINST GOD SO WHAT EXAMPLE OUR CHILDREN REALLY HAVE BUT THE WORLD 🌎
    “14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. ”
    2 Chronicles 7:14-16
    “And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. ”
    1 Samuel 8:7 KJV
    “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. ”
    Hosea 4:6 KJV
    “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. ”
    Daniel 12:1 kjv
    “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. ”
    John 4:24 KJV
    “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ”
    Exodus 20:8 KJV
    “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. ”
    Revelation 22:14 KJV
    “10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. ”
    Isaiah 48:10-11 KJV
    “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. ”
    Revelation 3:18 KJV
    I PRAY WE UNDERSTAND THE STANDARD JESUS WANTS US TO HAVE, THE FAITH OF THE DICIPLES….WE WILL BE PERSECUTED FOR THE TRUTH AND ONLY GOD’S TRUTH WILL BRING TRUE STANDARD IN OUR NATIONS ..CONSECRATED PREACHERS NEED TO CALL A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY AND TEACH THE BELIEVERS TRUE WORSHIP JUST LIKE THE STORY OF NEHEMIAH IN THE BIBLE AND WE CAN’T SEE MUCH OF THAT BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE HIRELING THEY DO EASY WORK FOR A PAYCHECK NO MORE GOING INTO THE HOMES AND BEFRIEND THE FAMILIES NO MORE PRAYING IN FAITH FOR HEALING OF THE SICK….GOD’S WORK BECOMES A JOB APPLICATION NOT BY CALLING…the children need FAITH base teachers 🙏🏽 JESUS told us he comes to show the way he never had an office his disciples share the same faith what are we willing to bear for our savior and less our life confess of his righteousness we are not ready nothing will be better he heals the sick and he provides for the poor same as the disciples……GOD IS CALLING A PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF…..WE JUST NEED TO STOP LETTING SATAN BECLOUDS our minds …

  4. Some good points but… At the primary level, apart from literacy skills, children also learn math skills that will allow them to participate in business in life. They also learn a bit of science to help them understand the foundations of the world around them and a bit of social studies to help them understand the society around them, along with bits and pieces of other subjects. The curriculum might need to be refined a bit – there might be too much overwhelming info on some things and not enough practice on other important things, but overall primary school education is a good intro to modern life. In first to third forms they learn a few more things in these areas that they can now understand better. This is also the best age to learn and understand proper grammar for foreign languages, computer history and use etc. (they hardly understand these is primary school). So, they are still learning things they will need to exist in the modern world. They can also take some practical courses such as Home Ec with clothing and textiles, technical drawing, agricultur, etc. In fourth to fifth that knowledge is more geared towards higher education so there is where persons can choose a more practical or a more academic path. Then, based on which path they chose they can proceed to tertiary studies at the college level where the options for practical courses are rapidly expanding alongside the more theoretical academic ones. Finally person can go on to university, if they wish, for even more theory in certain fields and management-required studies or they can go into the workplace and then take shorter technical certificate courses in their practical fields to advance their careers. There is a pathway for youth but persons need to do a bit of research to find out how best to pursue their goals and have patience. Stop trying to make big money right out of primary school. Teenagers can do part time jobs for a little spending money and to save for further studies but stop expecting to be rich overnight. Even after entering the workforce it can take a few years to save, invest and increase in wealth, acquire goods, property etc. Learn to get by on less in peace and slowly work your way forward in life. Don’t judge those who are still working their way up. Let’s all just live in peace and love.

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