I guess there wasn't much Good about last Friday and there wasn't much Happy in Easter this year! What's up with all the shootings? More on this after the top 20.

Holding on at the top of the hits is Snoop Dogg's latest rap anthem, I Wanna Rock, one of the baddest rap tracks produced in the past year. Still in the #2 spot is How Low by Ludacris. I heard a dance mix to this one the other day that is cute and bang and has helped to stop the track from dropping. At #3 is Why Don't You Love Me by Beyonce.

Leaping to #4 is Hard by Rihanna, who you may have seen on American Idol on Wednesday night. On the way up at #5 its Bedrock by Young Money featuring Lloyd. Slipping to #6 is Say Aah by Trey Songz featuring Fabolous.

Now some dance music. Up to #7 is Sexy Chick by David Guetta featuring Akon, a monster house jam. This one has a banging and bouncing beat atop catchy lyrics and some killer keyboards, typical of techno. Jumping to #8 is Tik Tok by Ke$ha, the new blonde bombshell. This one can be seen in the new movie featuring J-Lo. Man J-Lo still looks good. But the track is a killer catchy pop dance hit. Love her or loathe her; Ke$ha is hot.

Slipping to #9 is It Kills Me by Melanie Fiona, a sweet and touching love song. Down to #10 is Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart by Alicia Keys. Slipping to #11 is Sex Therapy by Robin Thicke.

Improving to #12 is On To The Next One by Jay Z and Swizz Beats. Rude Boy by Rihanna, advances to #13. Improving to #14 is Everything To Me by Monica, a former essential new tune. Up to #15 is Say Something by Timbaland featuring Drake, last week's essential new jam. Slipping to #16 is She Wolf by Shakira, a kickin' dance track by one of the hottest Latina Divas in the game. Falling to #17 is I Invented Sex by Trey Songz featuring Drake. I don't get the sexual references in nearly every song these days but I guess I really am an old fogey.

Improving to #18 is Hey Daddy, (Daddy's Home) by Usher featuring Plies. Down to #19 is We Are The World, by Artists for Haiti. The situation in Haiti has only improved ever so slightly and there are many more of our brothers and sisters in Haiti who are struggling. Let's keep them in prayer and keep sending them help, aid and most importantly; cash.

Now this week's essential new jam. New at #20 is Neighbours Know My Name by Trey Songz, one of the fastest rising hits in the popular music game.

Now back to this week's word – I must be a dreamer to think that the thugs would actually read and heed my message of peace from last week! The day after I wrote about remembering the true meaning of Easter and Christ and Resurrection Sunday, a shooting spree is launched that resulted in one death and several others wounded! I'm stunned.

However, I'm a solutions man; so where do we go from here?

First, let's take a moment to praise the efforts of the Bermuda Police Service. These dudes and dudettes are out there 24/7, around the clock trying to keep the country safe. It is sometimes a thankless job but they are doing it well under great stress.

Minister Burch earlier this week praised them and singled out the serious crimes unit, who are the officers investigating the murders and who have been flat out for the past four to six months trying to solve crimes.

But the guilty culprits here aren't only the gangsters; it is also their mothers, friends and relatives who know all about the illegal activity in which they are involved but instead of holding them accountable, choose to support them, refuse to advise the authorities and benefit from their criminal actions.

At some point more persons in society have to "grow a pair" and demonstrate the fortitude to say to a gangster: "I am not afraid to tell the Police about your illegal and criminal activity" and to actually do it.

I am here to tell you right here, right now that if I know of anyone's criminal activity I'm not calling Crimestoppers; I'm calling 295-0011 or 295-0012 or the cellphone number of one of my boys who just happen to be cops. That's right; I'm an informant. You do wrong and I find out about it; I'm gonna tell the Police. Why? Because it's the right thing to do and most of you worthless Bermudians who harbour, aid and abet or are silent about criminal activity don't have the strength of character to do it.

And if one of those criminals shoots me or takes my life for telling the Police, so be it – my living will not have been in vain. What does it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul? I couldn't live with myself if I knew that (for instance) my brother was a drug dealer who was supplying drugs that were destroying the lives of numerous people and he was involved in shooting, gang life and other criminal and/or antisocial behaviour. How do people who do this look in the mirror?

My parents wouldn't be able to live with themselves if either of us were involved in such activity. But, then, our parents are not like the idiot parents, friends and relatives of some of these menaces to our society.

I make no apologies for being harsh. I hope some people will take offence to this submission. If they do, that means they're guilty of aiding and abetting criminal activity and/or by their silence when armed with enough information that could put their criminal friends or relatives behind bars for a long time. Maybe, just maybe, it will prick whatever conscience they have left to do the right thing.

Let me put it to you like this. If you know someone who shot someone and you didn't tell the Police; you may as well have pulled the trigger yourself for you are just as guilty. You have blood on your hands too!

I pray that one day the good will once again outnumber the bad in this country and honest, hardworking, law abiding citizens will stand together and report all criminal activity to the Police so that we can arrest the murderers and lock up the criminals who seek to ruin the moral fabric and safety of this country and return Bermuda to the peaceful, happy, safe place in which so many of us grew up not too long ago. Peace .… DJLT.