LOW INCOME HOUSING developments have been described as the “hotbeds” for vicious gun crimes.
The link was made by Ambassador to CARICOM Robert Morris, who is also a trade unionist and historian, as he warned that Barbados ran the risk of becoming as violent as Jamaica and Trinidad unless the gun problem is stamped out.
Morris was speaking at the Democratic Labour Party’s (DLP) lunchtime lecture yesterday on Platform For Change At Fifty; What Next! when he linked crime to the poor neighbourhoods commonly referred to as “housing areas”. He said he recognised a lot of “black on black crime” involved working class people from the poor housing areas. (AD)
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