Turning tide in crime fight impossible in only three months

President David Granger yesterday said it is impossible to reverse the deterioration in national security after just three months in office.

“There has been a marked deterioration in human safety… and it is impossible to turn the tides in just over three months,” Granger said during an interview broadcast on the National Communications Network (NCN) last evening.

The rise in the crime rate began roughly 15 years ago under the administration of former president Bharrat Jagdeo, Granger said, while noting that the