AS THE ISLAND tries to come to grips with an apparent upsurge in gun crimes, the Attorney General has promised that a new Firearms Act will be going before Parliament by year end.
And, said AG Adriel Brathwaite, the island’s top cop will have a pivotal role in the new legislation.
Brathwaite was delivering the feature address at a forensic ballistics seminar hosted by the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) at the Courtyard by Marriott yesterday.
The Attorney General told his audience of participants from the Director of Public Prosecutions Office, the Forensic Sciences Centre, the Barbados Defence Force and the Barbados Police Force that a second draft of the new Firearms Bill was already in the works and he intended to have it before Parliament by year-end.
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