Jamaica is a country richly blessed with many great resources, mostly its people, but Evangelist John Martin believes unless something is done about crime, poor governance and social and economic instability, we will soon lose it all.

Martin, head of the JFK Ministries from the Greater Portmore Seventh-day Adventist Church, St Catherine, is irritated with the constant bloodshed that has been taking place in his community and the country.

Martin pointed to the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition debacle and the loss of life in Tivoli Gardens. As he watches the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair, he is disgusted at the lack of responses to the Government's involvement.

"When Christopher Coke lost his father, how much counselling was given to him? Yet, it is clear he became a successful businessman, now the situation where promising young men aspire to be dons is a serious problem that must be faced," he said.

He questions the members of government and the role they play in nation building by asking: "Was it worth it for these things to have happened in west Kingston?"

He believes the Government must shoulder most of the blame because guns are not manufactured locally - yet they factor significantly our crime problem.

Martin says he has programmes within his community that assist young people and he believes intervention is possible for the nation's youths.

"People who wear uniform must be able to protect, reassure and rescue the civilians that change can come, and not to murder them," he said. "The police can also make the difference but the blood of the people are being drunk by these big men from these leaders' table."

He said woe unto the Government, the Opposition, the private sector, and even the ministers of the church who sit back and don't do more to curb the crime problem.

"When we look at the amount of security firms in the country and ammunition that had to be bought in to assist these companies, who will be responsible for innocent bloodshed?" he asked. "Jamaica needs to shake up and our leaders need to bring about more change."