Jamaica Gleaner) Seventh-day Adventist pastor Reverend Charles Brevitt has said Jamaica is suffering from a critical breakdown in parenting, which has resulted in the unleashing of a crude, course and lewd generation on the nation.
“We see a crisis of diminishing of national and civic pride; when knives, ice picks, Rizzla, condoms, birth control devices and drugs become a part of the regular school paraphernalia as textbooks and geometry sets, T-squares and writing implements,” said Reverend Brevitt.
The pastor, who was delivering the keynote address on behalf of Custos Rotulorum of St James Ewen Corrodus at the installation ceremony for new Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) president Clayton Hall at the Ritz Carlton Resort and Spa on Monday night, said the nation is in trouble.
“We are cultivating a lewd, coarse and rude breed,” Reverend Brevitt said, while noting that technology has also contributed to the decline in standards.
“Technology and modernisation have left society bereft of the second line of defence against the challenges,” the pastor said. “The postmistresses, district constables, pastors, retired teachers and police officers, grandparents, and patriarchs who held the reigns of governance and kept the culture alive, are now seen as relics of the past.”
