Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite has been lambasted for suggesting a mandatory 18-month remand without bail for anyone charged with an offence involving a firearm or ammunition.
Attorney and Senator Wilfred Abrahams of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party said the statement by Brathwaite, made during last week’s two-day National Consultation On Violence, “flies in the face of everything that makes sense”.
“Why would the Attorney General, who should know this, come and tout that as an example of what we are doing to combat crime?” he said on Sunday night at St Christopher School, where the BLP Christ Church South branch held its annual general meeting.
Abrahams, the BLP Christ Church East candidate, said the proposals, which included a minimum 20 years for people belonging to gangs and 25 years for gang leaders, would be unconstitutional. (LK)
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