The Democratic National Alliance (DNA) released a scorching critique of the plan to combat crime put forward by Leader of the Opposition Perry Christie in a nationally televised address on Monday.<\/p>\n
The DNA labeled Christie’s proposals “simple political window dressing aimed at ‘bamboozling’ the public into believing that the PLP has a crime solution, when in fact it does not.”<\/p>\n
Christie’s plan calls for the creation of new police strike force teams, the prosecution of high-powered gun possession cases in the Supreme Court, the creation of a special unit to speed up the processing of death penalty cases and the creation of additional criminal courts, among other things.<\/p>\n
DNA candidate Wayne Munroe said Christie’s plan was “unimaginative, uninformed and a regurgitation of some of the same, old PLP sing-song.”<\/p>\n
Munroe also said Christie’s idea of having the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) increase border patrols to prevent gun trafficking is “another unimaginative, uninformed sham.”<\/p>\n
Munroe also said Christie’s proposal for legislation to permit cases involving high-powered weapons to be tried in the Supreme Court is “uninformed political fluff.”<\/p>\n
Munroe said it was “highly unlikely” that Christie, who was in office when mandatory death sentences were ruled unconstitutional in 2006, and failed to produce or pass a Death Penalty Act, would do so if given another chance in office.<\/p>\n
“It is vague and is coming from a man who is one of two prime ministers who presided over the educational system in The Bahamas in the past 15 years,” he said. “And because questions still remain as o the successfulness of the institution under both administrations… Christie’s unspecified promises will not do.”<\/p>\n
The DNA concluded that with its plan, the PLP “proves that it is as uncreative and ill-equipped as the present administration, whose leader (Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham) is on vacation, leaving no adequate, sound leadership in his absence to combat crime and other national issues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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