LOO Wants to See Significantly Fewer Crimes Happening

Moses ‘Shyne’ Barrow

And while the police department reports that major crimes have been on the decline since 2020, Barrow says this does not absolve the current government of how bad things currently are. He says that for him to be convinced that crime is truly on the decline, the percentage rate would have to dip significantly lower. Only then, he says, would the numbers be in congruence with what the government promised when they campaigned to lower the crime rate.

Moses ‘Shyne’ Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“So if you’re arguing that you had a hundred and ten murders under the U.D.P, I know you only have a hundred murders under the U.D.P, that was not the promise – sorry, under the P.U.P. That was not the promise. The promise is that they had the solution for murders; they had the solution for violent crime, which would see when you see an 80% reduction. That is when you say the country has gotten better. But we can’t feel the difference between 10 murders. All we see is what is happening when in a 12 hour period. All we see is officers getting gunned down. Officer Arzu down there in Dangriga.”