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KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has denied saying at a regional symposium on crime in the Caribbean that the primary motives for some murders is to allow a handful of young men to take care of their “high maintenance women”....

VEL A LEWIS IN 1994, the late Justice Lennox Deyalsingh described the crime condition in TT as reaching epidemic proportions (Trinidad Guardian, June 20). Back then there were regular reports of such violent crimes as murder and armed robbery. Even since then, there were concerns that many of the criminals involved in those matters were

By Rashaed Esson Staff Writer   #TrinidadandTobago, April 21, 2023 – Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica at the CARICOM Regional Symposium on crime said there is a “huge deficit presently in the architecture of our state, to treat with Crime and Violence, from a legislative point of view, from a law enforcement point of […]

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is calling out some members of the judiciary in the region for not being harsh enough in their sentencing of criminals.

THERE is no proven data to support that the death penalty leads to a reduction in crime, abolitionist and senior counsel Douglas Mendes told a panel discussion on Monday, in response to political suggestions that the death penalty should be used in the Caribbean to address crime. At a regional symposium entitled Violence as a

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has left the island for Trinidad and Tobago, where he will participate in the inaugural Regional Security Conference. The Caricom conference comes as the region grap...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Caribbean politicians, academics and other stakeholders, including police commissioners began a two-day symposium on Monday examining violence as a public health issue against the backdrop of increasing violent crimes across the region. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett told the opening ceremony that the presence of at least 10 regional leaders “is a clear

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Andrew Holness leaves the island on Sunday to participate in the inaugural Regional Security Conference in Trinidad and Tobago. The Office of the Prime Minister sa...