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Shirley Bahadur Raphael John-Lall Pres­i­dent of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers Jai Lelad­hars­ingh said busi­ness­es have al­so been suf­fer­ing from the high crime rate that is af­fect­ing the coun­try and it is of no sur­prise that busi­ness closed their doors on Fri­day. ‘The death of An­drea Bharatt is hor­ren­dous and hor­rif­ic and one of our coun­try’s most promis­ing daugh­ters has died. Busi­ness­es have been hit very hard by crime. The ex­tra cost it takes to high­er se­cu­ri­ty, elec­tron­ic alarms, and cam­eras...

Former AG calls for return to death penalty raphael.lall@guardian.co.tt For­mer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj is con­vinced Gov­ern­ment must re­turn to the death penal­ty to deal with vi­o­lent crimes such as mur­ders. Dur­ing his tenure as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al in 1999 drug lord, Dole Chadee and eight oth­er mem­bers of his gang were hanged. The kid­nap­ping and mur­der of 23-year-old An­drea Bharatt has once again raised the de­bate about how the lat­est spate of ab­duc­tions and mur­ders can be solved.