{"id":25498,"date":"2012-09-11T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25498"},"modified":"2012-09-11T08:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:53:51","slug":"plp-criticised-over-crime-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/plp-criticised-over-crime-wave","title":{"rendered":"PLP Criticised Over Crime Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crime in the Bahamas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis said in a statement yesterday Bahamians are disillusioned with the government\u2019s empty promises to solve the country\u2019s crime problem.<\/p>\n

Minnis\u2019 comments came nearly a week after Prime Minister Perry Christie promised to \u201credouble\u201d the government\u2019s crime fighting strategies after a spate of murders and armed robberies.<\/p>\n

Minnis said the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is \u201clong on talk but short on action\u201d when it comes to crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, the governing party continues to use its magical numbers machine, its fancy talk and blatant storytelling to advance the view that Urban Renewal 2.0 is a panacea, that they held and still have all the answers to the crime problem and that they, the PLP, have worked miracles,\u201d Minnis said.<\/p>\n

He said that May \u2013 the month the PLP assumed office \u2013 was the bloodiest month on record for the year.<\/p>\n

In May 2012, 21 murders were recorded, the most ever recorded in a single month.<\/p>\n

He also questioned the status of two of the government\u2019s proposed crime fighting strategies, Operation Cease Fire and Project Safe Bahamas.<\/p>\n

He added that people are becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack by wearing gold jewelry or socializing.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, we\u2019re seeing a crime wave that is evidence of a worrying trend, especially when one considers that Bahamians are afraid to even wear a piece of jewelry or play a game of dominoes without looking over their shoulders, without being traumatized by the fear of crime,\u201d he said, referring to the circumstances surrounding two recent murders.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow woeful is it when 63-year-old Ernest Hepburn, a senior citizen, is killed on his porch for his gold chain or when a youngster, in his late 20s, is brutally murdered as he\u2019s engaged in a game of dominoes with his friends?\u201d<\/p>\n

Minnis also hit out at Minister of Education, Science and Technology Jerome Fitzgerald for saying that armed police officers would be allowed to patrol public schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe school is a place where learning is supposed to occur, where we groom and develop a dutiful citizenry,\u201d Minnis said. \u201cThe school should never be morphed into a militarized zone due to knee-jerk tokenism, or political expediency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Fitzgerald said school police officers who are authorized to carry guns will be able to take the weapons onto the campuses.<\/p>\n

Minnis also criticized the PLP\u2019s flagship crime fighting strategy, Urban Renewal 2.0, as a program that has done nothing more than knock down a few houses.<\/p>\n

Minnis also questioned when the government would place a greater emphasis on child protection laws, witness protection and explain how Swift Justice would be implemented.<\/p>\n

Source: Taneka Thompson,
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Bahamians are disillusioned with the PLP\u2019s empty promises to solve the crime problem. The month the PLP took office was the bloodiest month of the year and is continuing a deadly trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,60],"class_list":["post-25498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}