Increases in violent crime and other mounting security concerns in the Caribbean region call for a collective approach, Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs of Barbados Adriel Brathwaite said yesterday, while he also lamented the lack of financial commitments to combat the situation.
“It is not a problem for Guyana. It is not a problem for Trinidad. It is not a problem for Barbados. It is a collective problem, because we’re all seeing it [and] we need to address this in terms of why are we as a region seeing an increase use of firearms… throughout our region, a region that does not produce guns of any kind,” Brathwaite stated during his address at the opening ceremony of 17th meeting for the Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) at the Caricom Secretariat at Turkeyen.
