Sascha Wil­son

A high court judge in his ca­pac­i­ty as a lay min­is­ter is call­ing for na­tion­al poli­cies and fi­nan­cial ad­just­ments that will see the wealthy hav­ing to shoul­der the bur­dens and not the poor.

De­liv­er­ing a ser­mon as a guest preach­er at Susumachar Pres­by­ter­ian Church in San Fer­nan­do, Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad al­so took is­sue with re­cent ut­ter­ances from Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters which have been seen as in­sen­si­tive to the hard­ships fac­ing peo­ple and have evoked pub­lic crit­i­cism.

Not­ing that there is a lack of em­pa­thy for the poor and dis­en­fran­chised, Seep­er­sad said, "Amidst the un­de­ni­able hard­ships some are voic­ing opin­ions as they is­sue calls for sac­ri­fice and “band yuh bel­ly” clar­i­ons, oth­ers are in­dif­fer­ent as their “breads are but­tered” while the ex­ist­ing in­equities are sim­ply ag­gra­vat­ed and ne­glect­ed."

He ad­vised that as a so­ci­ety they must help the des­ti­tute and the dis­en­fran­chised.

"They should not be ridiculed, dis­missed or be treat­ed with con­tempt. In­stead, we must, in dif­fi­cult times, share our re­sources, time and tal­ents with them to im­prove their lot. By do­ing so both com­mis­sions will be dis­charged. If we de­sire to be agents of the Great Com­mis­sion, we must prac­tice the Great Com­mand, un­der­stand­ing that be­ing close to Christ re­quires us to em­brace the poor."