PM Browne: Youth Violence an ‘Existential Threat’ After Death of Cricketer Vonde Bowers

We just need some positive social clubs, with a lot of positive activities so everyone can enjoy

The HOME is the first classroom. Where are their PARENTS????

Social clubs?

We need strong consequences and stiffer penalties. Look at Bukele’s success in cleaning up El Salvador. He didn’t do it with social clubs. Criminals in El Salvador run scared of the police. Crime we t from rampant to practically non existent. Put stiffer laws on the books and then start throwing the book at these delinquents. Allow the common man after serious vetting access to a firearm and means to defend himself/herself with lethal force. If y’all afraid of more guns in the country it makes no difference the guns already on the streets and hot in the arms of criminals. Make it so the common man now can fight back once they are law abiding citizens and these criminals will think twice entering a house know it may be their last gig. They will think twice assaulting a random person, will think twice raping a woman who possibly could be armed. We need to teach these Criminals about FAFO culture. Like the young man that went to rob the other day. He F@<ked around and found out.

My good friend Gassy you are the biggest threat to this country. I can just anticipate how the Licksplittlers and Hangers-on are going to attack me like piranhas, the truth hurts. Sorry Faithful National #1. Gaston is obviously an intelligent person but he behaves like a gutter snipe

Gaston,
What exactly are you going to do about the violence???
Eh!
What???
You just full a 👄talk.

PeeeeeeeeeM, you politicized a problem when it needed to be dealt with impartially.
You put a plaster on a massive sore.
If a problem is not adequately dealt with it will disappear to reappear.
However when it resurfaced it does so with explosive impact.
This is the explosion.
You need to bring all the stake holders to the table to address this youth violence issue and come up with immediate and long term solutions to this ongoing problem.
This youth was stabbed to death.
Fortunately it wasn’t a gun.
Your apology is still being demanded for your adminishion to violent youth to dispose of there hot firearms.
This adminishion to the youths remains a curse on the nation.

Have another football match or start your own league and pay the players. Call it the gangster league sponsored and owned by the wurl top dawg boss.
You and others who began using the youths as runners decades ago are seeing some of the spin offs. Yes we know, it’s not happening in Antigua alone but that’s no excuse. So because my neighbors houses back yards are dirty, that’s my excuse to keep mine dirty? Bullshit! This is a ALL HANDS ON DECK MISSION, not the separatist, dirty gutter politics crap.
The youths are a part of the problem, no doubt! No doubt! No doubt! However there are other major players in the crime equation.
You and the other poliTRICKtans were warned decades ago, as many of us saw the signs of incubation into the trending North American Gang and Jamaican Possee Culture. We are now reaping the fruits or, as they say, “the chickens are coming home to roost!”
Who put weed, marijuana in the youths hands without them fully understanding the uses of the herbs? Marijuana is not something to experiment with because just like anything which alters your body chemistry in an instant, it must be handled with CAUTION.
Who has the customs and immigration lagging in technology and well trained staffing to combat smuggling of all sorts?
This is just the beginning. You’re bragging about doubling the economy in a decade. Do you think the money alone piling in can alleviate the stresses of keeping up with the jones?
There are little to no SAFETY NETS such as social services, mental health care, outreach solidly in place to address what’s to come with doubling of the economy in a decade.
We all love to dream big. However this is not about DREAMING, it’s about LIVING in the reality of the times.

The problem is Caribbean wide. It is the result of the breakdown in the family and community structure. A large percentage of the children in this country are from single women families. The mother is working, sometimes 2 jobs and the father is absent and non existent. In the old days the village would raise the child. These days we don’t even know our neighbours. All of our children are given a phone at birth to keep them occupied. So the phone and internet are parenting the child. And we all know how negative, nasty and violent the content is on the net. And many of the games the kids play portray and promote violence. The first step is to make both parents including the sperm-donor father be responsible for the child by law. It is where we have fallen as a society that we have to now legislate parenting. Don’t blame the kids. They are mirroring the adults and society.

Browne must now create some sort of task force to counter attack this callous lawlessness.

You can’t tell me that it can’t be done, when Antiguans can easily recall that the Antigua & Barbuda Defence Force were armed and put on the streets during peaceful demonstrations around the time of the Covid-19 pandemic when women and children were tear gassed. Fact!

Our Prime Minister must act sooner rather than later or he’ll always be known as a man who chats a lot of utter BUNKUM.

There are so many idiots in this country. Some comments here are evidence of this. People just say what ever without any thought. Or maybe they cannot think. We are all to blame. This is not an issue any one person or any one body can address or fix. This is an international problem caused by many factors: lack of stable families, the internet and social media which run and influence our lives etc. Our youth are a reflection of our society. We are all to blame but this is not an easy problem to solve. And if we are to solve it we must all be prepared to change our life styles. Are we willing to do that? I doubt it as we are all too accustomed to blaming others for our problems.

Just over twelve years ago, the then opposition leader was gloating over the escalating crime rate and assured us that he would’ve fixed it when he became Prime Minister. Eleven years later, under his leadership, it is worst than it has ever been. It’s probably the UPP again. ‘Poverty breeds crime ‘. Wonder what he’s saying now.

We certainly are not immune to youth crime and violence, and you are right this fight is not restricted to just the government. It involves us all

This generation is doomed and that says that we are ALLLL doomed.

Parents don’t want their children disciplined in school.
Parents don’t want the government telling them how to raise their children and look now……..the same parents are asking the government what are they going to do to curb the youth violence.

What the frig am I hearing with my old ass ears???!!!! I know I am not deaf but come again????

PARENTS!!! STEP UP AND HANDLE YOUR CHILDREN!!! You all have them running around at the mercy of gangs and others who will lead them astray. Pull them back in cause lemme tell you….I am not going to let your kiss-me-ass children terrorize my old ass in my own country.

These youth don’t have parents. The first we are doing in country is blaming the Prime Minister and not the parents of these young people! Shame on us 😪. We need to be parents to our children first!

I live fairly close to the St. Mary’s School os Excellence in Bolans and quite often when children are on their way to or from that school you hear the vile and violent Jamaican music the are playing and don’t talk about the indecent language and I am most certain it’s not children from that school alone. Some of the parents are not doing a good I must admit but the government has a big part to play, I would suggest ban those awful Jamaican music that would be a good start

A great start to clamp down on this senseless violence is to get rid of Cutie Benjamin he has wasted too much time in this Ministry already. Gaston just skate he out and let the chips fall where they may. It will be for the good of the Nation, how many more lives are you willing to sacrifice for this bungling idiot

The single mothers and fathers are coming to the ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE to hustle. How many Guyanese, Jamaican, Dominican, Santo Domingan, Vincentian, Mexican, African moves an entire family to Antigua & Barbuda? They are mostly SINGLE and it has been this way since, the 1970’s as people relocate to find work. Singles gotta mingle. Outside of the six month hotel season, where do single women from these countries are finding work? Prostitution for one either knowingly or not. The single men (construction now) but bare hustling before. The single parent argument is weak. It’s the entire culture which is the problem as the scarce resources gets distributed in such a way, that the rich is getting richer gaston and the poor is getting poorer.
I’m glad that many are realizing it’s a Caribbean, Worldwide, International HUMAN problem. It’s plain to see! Everyone is under the same ONE WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT who are setting the policies which these smaller states must abide by. A great example is the Trump Tarriff/Economic War declared by Capitaline Hill. You’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The people will have to play the major role in dealing with the war in the streets. Guess what, they’re not ready. Now as for the politicians, they’re too crooked!

There is only one way to crush violence, and that’s by force. Every example from history to history has stated that.

This isn’t the first time that the youth has rebelled, and what was done by the powers that be, was destroy their foolish hope to take over with violence .

Who has the power to do that, isn’t it the government? They are the ones who built guns and jail houses. They are the ones who built mental asylums and gestapo camps.

Use the damn power that’s in your hands GB, because trust me, if you leave the general public to police itself, then your little island will only become an anarchist state like Haiti, and many other examples around the world and going back in history.

Grow a spine for crying out loud..football matches and gun Amnesty won’t do it. But then again you were warned, but did nothing.