Dead with nowhere to go …

You know crime is bad when there’s nowhere to put the bodies.

Photo by MeraM

For the last few decades, one place has been taking in all of Jamaica’s dead bodies on behalf of the government.  That’s the Madden’s Funeral Home with offices in  Montego Bay and Kingston.

Now there is supposed to be funding for a new public morgue , but I just wonder what people in Madden’s have got to say about what they have seen over the years.

They’ve been clearing up bodies from gullies, holding the hands of children away from the scene of murders and burying Jamaica’s dead for so long and business continues to be as brisk as ever.

Jamaica’s murder rate rises inexhorably

The figures show a 22 per cent rise on this time last year. The numbers show a tally at 1105 up to the end of August compared to 968 recorded last year. Not only murders, but a ten per cent increase in rape. Just when you think it cannot get any worse than this and it goes up and up. Here’s the detail

Pictures posted from the funeral of Spragga Benz’s son here show the human face of grief and sorrow behind these figures. From Yardflex.

Spragga at his son's funeral with his 6 year old daughter