Solving the gun trade
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2019 | 12:32 AM
THE EDITOR, Madam:
In days gone by, we used to go to the bush, to hunt birds, by using a bird-trap thing called caliban (‘callaban’). A ‘callaban’, as we called it, is a little box-shaped thing, or a thing that looked like a large, deep ditch, that we made out of sticks. And we would catch a bird alive in it.
So, after making it (ready for use), we would put it on the ground and raise a part of it in the air, by ‘kotching’ it up with two pieces of sticks, then we would tie a piece of string between the sticks, on to the apparatus, while the back part of it remained on the ground.
Then, we would use a peg of dry chocolate, from the chocolate pad, crush it and put it underneath it as bait for the bird. Then the bird would come and feed on it, disturbing the string, and the ‘callaban’ would topple down and cover the bird. So, that was a wise plan to catch bird.
Therefore, the big question, which has been asked so many times, is this: What would be the best crime strategy to bring down this long-standing gun trade? Something must be done to stop the guns before they stop more people.
As the old reggae song says: “…beg yuh pardon, excuse me…” I don’t believe that some of the powers that be are deadly serious and are totally committed in dismantling this ‘sitting duck’ gun trade.
DONALD J. MCKOY