Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne has called on Government to introduce anti-gang legislation in response to the surge in homicides across Barbados.
He criticised the Government’s handling of crime, particularly the failure to enact measures that he said other Caribbean nations had successfully implemented.
“I want to give another solution to the Government. If they want leadership on the issue, anti-gang legislation. The other countries have done it,” he said, placing the blame for the lack of movement in this direction at the feet of Attorney General Dale Marshall.
“It is known in this country that a lot of the crime is localised within gang activity. The logical thing to do is what Jamaica did, what Trinidad did – anti-gang legislation,” he said during a press conference at the Opposition Leader’s Office on Hincks Street, The City, yesterday.
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