Antigua and Barbuda is leading efforts to address the rise in violent crime affecting the Caribbean. During a meeting of CARICOM foreign ministers at the UN General Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. E.P. Chet Greene, called for a unified regional strategy to combat the influx of illicit weapons and curb criminal activity.
The CARICOM Foreign Ministers (COFCOR) endorsed Greene’s call for collaboration, recognizing that crime in the region requires collective action. They stressed that while gangs may form locally, their weapons and tactics are often sourced internationally, making regional cooperation crucial.
Minister Greene’s push for a cohesive strategy comes after Antigua and Barbuda’s successful National Day of Prayer in response to rising crime, which will now be an annual event.
The meeting also adopted the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States (ABAS), a 10-year plan for resilient prosperity. COFCOR committed to completing the ABAS monitoring framework by mid-2025 and urged support for the SIDS Centre of Excellence.
Antigua and Barbuda’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Walton Webson, and First Secretary Asha Challenger provided technical support at the meeting.
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My fake representatives at work. My ABLP needs to clean house like the UPP, otherwise many of our present leaders like Chet, Davin, Gaston, Malwyn, Robin and my good friend Asot will could be jailed for their crimes against the people of our Nation. Less you forget we are the ones who are doing their dirt in the streets. I am just repenting and asking God to forgive me of my sins which I committed to make ABLP look good. But a dying man has to confess his sins.
Read what the commenters are saying here. To me, it sounds hypocritical that MP Green is calling for collective tackling of crime when for years I have been informing him, AG Benjamin, PM and all ABLP that there needs to be an intelligence and national security unit (INSU) which is best at communicating with other agencies, receiving intelligence, sharing intelligence, analysizing intelligence and leads in providing strategies in protecting national security.
You can not be saying what you are saying and leaving out that unit that is made up of those people at the top of this and related fields.
I hope one day those with the advance degree of knowledge in their fields will be used by Antigua and Barbuda’s ABLP government and others.
I agree with chet, violent crime like using the armed military to hold barbudans off their island after a devastated hurricane where life was lost to get those land surveyed for rich white folks is a very violent psychological crime and socio economic too, the U.Nshould take note, but I don’t need the UN to validate my claim by subjecting barbudans to white supervision, it’s criminal what Gaston has done withe help of police commissioner Wendell Robinson and now Rodney.
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