Crime is everybody’s business and today crime remains the number one priority. Based on this reality, this is not the time for playing games with a major problem. One would have thought that after a recent meeting in Trinidad where so much information was made available, our Prime Minister would have taken the matter more seriously than he has.
Jeremiah Norbert is a novice in the political arena and to burden the state with a $100,000 a year salary as a minister within the ministry is a farce. What exactly can this individual contribute which will make a difference. I think crime today is a complexed situation which requires skill and finance. As suggested at the last Trinidad meeting, a regional force of top quality officers must be engaged and well vetted to dent that evil which has cast a dark shadow over the region.
If left unattended, our economies in the region will be seriously affected and what better example do we have but Haiti on our doorsteps. A failed state which the international community don’t want to touch with a ten-foot pole. What we now have on our hands is years of neglect with a culture of its own. The flow of guns to the region is big business and we need serious people and financing to fight this war. There is no point in procrastinating and fooling ourselves as the war is in full swing.