Entertainer Ce’Cile is using her platform to denounce the alarming rate of violence against women in Jamaica. The dancehall artiste took to Instagram to express frustration over the frequent reports of women being beaten, missing, or found dead.
Cecile alludes to the constant stream of negative news affecting her personally, making it hard for her to be happy and post music. “Every day a next female is either missing, found dead or beaten,” she wrote, urging Jamaicans to take a stand against the normalization of such incidents.
Ce’Cile also criticized the influence of social media personalities who seem to profit from promoting slackness and violence. “Look at the people you have influencing kids, people used to affi hide slackness one time now it gets you likes and jobs,” she stated.
Ce’Cile’s outcry comes amid peaceful demonstrations staged today in support of University of Technology student Anisa Dilworth who was reported missing on May 7 and a nurse practitioner who was physically assaulted last week while enroute to work. The man seen on a viral video assaulting the nurse last Tuesday in St. Andrew, has been slapped with multiple charges.
Meanwhile, Police say, while formal identification is pending, forensic analysis investigators believe that human skeletal remains discovered over the weekend in St Catherine, belong to Dilworth.
