UPP Delegation Meets With Attorney General Over Gun Crime Concerns
Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle led a United Progressive Party (UPP) delegation in a meeting with the Attorney General and Minister of Public Safety on Friday to discuss the government’s response to rising gun-related crimes.
The delegation included former Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, St. Philip’s South MP Sherfield Bowen, attorney Leon Symister, and Acting PRO Jonathan Wehner. They sought clarity on the administration’s strategy and put forward recommendations of their own.
Pringle described the talks as “quite fruitful,” saying, “We would have asked the questions that we believe are pertinent to the safety of Antigua and Barbuda and the people. We would have looked at the challenges that we are faced with. We also offered solutions because we believe, as a political organization, it is important for us not to criticize, but also to offer recommendations and offer our assistance, because crime is not for the ALP or the UPP. It affects all of us. And we would not want to see Antigua and Barbuda go down a particular road. So I wrote to the AG, asking for a meeting with the delegation, and he agreed, and hence the reason why we’re here.”
He said the Attorney General’s team “outlined a number of matters that we would have raised. They would have said to us some of the things that they are doing in terms of curbing the crime situation in Antigua and Barbuda, and we thought the meeting was quite productive.”
Pringle added, “We’re asking for a continuation of the discussion where we now not only [engage] with the political organization but with the wider community, so there can be a greater communication between the police, the legal affairs office, all stakeholders, and the public, because we believe this is something that we can arrest and we’re willing to work along to make sure that Antigua and Barbuda remains the safest place in the world.”
The meeting followed a formal request made by Pringle earlier this month, amid growing national concern over gun-related violence.
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The Lovell effect
Dealing with crimes should be apolitical and be a cross party concern. Let’s get the police authorities and the ABDF involved as well.
This Crime Crisis summit should be held before our Independence Day celebrations so that a clear crime prevention objective is underway.
I’m a person of very limited understanding of crime prevention, but when criminal activity is growing where many people live, when virtually none existed before, then something is fundamentally wrong with our policing and security services.
Hopefully, the Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin isn’t as stubborn as he’s perceived and agrees to meet up with the opposition to stem the tide of growing crimes.
IN THE LORD’S NAME WE PRAY … 🙏🏾
Political jokers all around who wants to convince the massive they are highly concerned about crime.
For years on this ANR site and even further back on the Observer site, many in the past have made numerous great suggestions on the curtailment of crime and what we got was dead ear.
We now have our two leading political parties showing interest, while they are the ones making and amending laws in parliament for the betterment of it’s people and instead of improvement the crime wave grows.
1735 is no longer a place where you was afraid to end up at as a youngster, then instead of a Skeritt for these youngsters they open up a guesthouse. I can never understand why our police stations are all built like motels where instead of patrolling our streets 24 seven, stationed are closed and officers go to bed while criminals roam freely, so instead of deterrent we now have a guesthouse a motel and a 1735 hotel.
Just like any place of work police officers should be driving in to work, clock or sign in, get their pre-shift assignments and get to work, at the end clocked out and new shift takes over.
We spoke of community patrolling and policing, where you’re not only driving up and down but in time you exercise your legs by getting to know everyone in this community and vice-versa, you will then be wise to any unusual or new faces hanging around, this is where trust is usually built. People a marked police vehicle parked on the side shouldn’t be an issue and this requesting and then jumping all over them when the inevitable happens is no crime stopping help either.
We kept hearing about this and that donating to our police force, but instead of all this donation the government of the day if truly serious should be the one investing heavily in the essentials needed i.e proper technology tools and most important fleets of marked and unmarked vehicles, no longer should you drive from town to Urlings without passing a marked police vehicle and no more should one call a station just to be told we have no vehicle.
You are the leaders you want to be leaders, you beg these same derelict communities for votes to get you elected, you sworn on the good book, they now need and looking towards you for help in many ways, make your promises and manifesto true to your people.
“SHARPEN U CUTLISS BACK AND BELLY. CHAP DEM UP” has no right to be there
SHERFIELD “SHOT PREGNANT WOMAN” has no right t o be there
C’mon UPP. who advising are you?
Might as well send Ian “Magic” Hughes to a Sexual Assault rally
Everything is politics in Antigua that’s why nothing can be solved.faithful national you sound like a big donkey 🐴 u sound stupid.maybe you never been rob and don’t know how it feels.
Well I was rob at gunpoint and it’s not a f***king good feeling so if you don’t got nothing sensible to say just shut up.
You need to go Greenland. CHUPZ
The only way crime could stop is if the government pay their citizens every month like the french countries,and even over there is crime
Prayers alone that can stop the rise of crime with guns,the government can’t do anything sorry to say because even the crooked police helping them
I’m happy the meeting went well let’s hope we can get a quick resolution
The some body sound just like how he look.
U are nothing but a dam dounce.
Want them rob your ass next bang u till u soft
Commendations for having this audience with the AG. Good stuff
How can we approach a seasoned criminal to assist us with lowering crimes? Then again, maybe he has the competency to do so; after all he literally signed a passport document, verifying that the information written on the form was indeed that of the Jumby who was stood before him.
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