By Chaviene Cyril Etienne of Voices Radio
To the young men of Anguilla, who are reading every post of mine, I ask you to let me continue to speak on your behalf.
I ask to not be seen a threat but as a speaker, to voice to your situation that those in power continue to ignore.
I am not here to put out what you told me. I’m here to take what is said and intellectually and strategically frame it in away that many outside your world can understand.
I feel your pain in every word, sigh and breath. I see your struggle and the efforts you make to escape hell.
I am not here to say, what happened. I’m here to explain why it’s happening. I am not your enemy, I am your ally in the fight for a better Anguilla.
While you fight among each other, shoot at one another; the rest of the population is feeling the consequences and the result of what you do.
I am not going to beg you to stop because in my opinion, those in power can make it stop. Your fighting, recklessness, lawlessness and behaviour is a result of worsening economic times in Anguilla.
I won’t do like many others and say ‘I love you’ because I feel the emptiness of those words.
“If you so love us, then why won’t you do anything to help us?,” is what I can hear many of you ask without it being said. And I share in that same sentiment.
Every single time, the political process drags it’s feet before anything gets done. And by the time it gets done, it doesn’t benefit who it was meant to benefit.
If it’s one person who hears your pain, sees your struggle and feels the ailments of living in a society where nothing benefits you, where you are neglected and forgotten about until election season, it is me.
Am asking not to be seen a target and instead a bridge between diplomacy, criminality and struggle.
