MY week one article in April of this year detailed what a “wow“ moment is, and the fact that it doesn’t happen often is what makes it a wow moment.

We are now at the midpoint of the year. We have recorded 272 murders so far for the year, compared to 349 last year. By all accounts, if the murder rate stays as it is, we should finish the year well under 600 murders.

This may seem a lot to you. Any murder, even one murder, is too much. However, I have lived through a year, in 2009, where we topped 1,600. So I am not celebrating the men who died, but rather the hundreds who have been saved by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) leadership, hard work, and crime-fighting initiatives.