AS BARBADOS GRAPPLES with increased gun crime and a murder rate that has outstripped last year’s, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has revealed that Cabinet is considering new countermeasures that already has the approval of the hierarchy of the Royal Barbados Police Force.
The Prime Minister made the disclosure as he delivered the main address of his party’s 62nd annual general conference at the George Street Auditorium yesterday.
There have been 26 murders so far for 2017, four more than the number recorded for all of 2016. The last two were in Marley Vale, St Philip, and the Prime Minister visited that area on the same night – last Tuesday – that Reco Burgess and Renaldo Gittens were gunned down.
Yesterday, the political leader of the Democratic Labour Party said that the island could not afford a society in which “the passionate intensity of those committed to anti-social behaviour gains the upper hand”. (HLE)
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