Jamaica’s Deputy Prime Minister Horace Chang has cited firearms trafficking as “maybe the greatest threat to the Caribbean countries”.
A release yesterday from the CARICOM Secretariat said that he was speaking at the conclusion of the CARICOM Minister-ial Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) meeting in Trelawny, Jamaica, on October 6th. Chair-ing the meeting, he adverted to the wider use of firearms in homicides.
The release said that CONSLE Chair had noted earlier that “none of our countries manufacture firearms and yet the ill effects of their proliferation and the contribution to gang violence and transnational criminal activities permeates our respective territories and are responsible for more than 70% of homicides in CARICOM”.
