Grenada Gov't moving to tighten legislation against gun crimes
SAINT GEORGES, Grenada - Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has signaled his intention to table legislation to deal with the escalation of criminal activities in Grenada, particularly gun-related crimes.
He told a news conference Tuesday that while for the most part, crime in Grenada “has been trending downwards” gun related crimes were increasing.
“In total we have 18 homicides for the year, many of them are gun related and as I have said repeatedly, firearms are lethal, they are meant to kill and I daresay, perhaps in some of these instances were firearms not involved, some of the victims may very well have survived.
“We intend to take a very robust response to this and the Cabinet intends to pilot legislation to amend the Firearms Act to introduce far more significant penalties for persons found in unlawful possession of a firearm,” said Mitchell, a lawyer.
He said the ceremonial opening of the new parliamentary term will be next week “and we certainly intend to file the necessary legislation before we go on the Christmas break…so that it could be enacted into law to signal our view that the possession of unlawful firearms, the use of unlawful firearms, the trading in unlawful firearms will not be something that will be tolerated”.
Mitchell said in addition, the government has appointed a national security advisory council and that it intends to have the council constituted “and the first order of business it will be mandated to do is to carry out a series of national consultations which we hope to commence in October”.
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1) Want to pass a police act to give the police more power with little or no accountability while violating citizens rights and liberty.
2) Keep asking for an ocean of money for police and prison but to date the police pressence territory wide is little to none in most areas while having more police officers recruited & hired in the history of the BVI.
3) Take over the Head of prison with a UK person
4) Take over Deputy Head of prison with UK person.
5) Take over the police with UK person
6) Taking over Customs with UK person(Allegedly Former Commissioner of Police).
7) Trying to take over DPP with UK person
8) Trying to take over AG position with UK person.
9) Run the country from the back through holding a modern day slavery whip over BVI Head to do what they say or they will suspend the constitution
10) Force 48 preauthored by them of their COI recommendations to be implemented without debate or ammendments for which most are not in the best interest of the people nor economy of the BVI & contributing to the rise in crime and drop in BVI economy.
11) Only investigate & arrest non white UK people living in BVI as well as listen to all phone calls and raid all accounts without justification other than being wreckers with power.
12) Taking over Permanent secretary positions & other senior public service position with UK person.
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