By CELESTE NIXON
Tribune Staff Reporter
cnixon@tribunemedia.net
THE FNM are not serious about crime, DNA leader Branville McCartney charged during a radio interview yesterday.
Claiming the crime bills put forward by the government just prior to the election amounted to a "political stunt", Mr McCartney said crime has been at an all-time high for a very long time but the FNM has failed to act.
He said: "Look at all these crime bills that were introduced to Parliament six months before the election, have you seen any of them come into fruition? They aren't serious, they can't be serious."
He used the example of the Volunteer Bahamas Programme, which Mr McCartney said he and 500 others signed up for. Despite all the fanfare, the party leader claimed no one was ever contacted about launching any charity initiatives.
According to Mr McCartney, until recently, Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest did not publicly recognise that the Bahamas has a crime problem.
He said: "Crime is the number one issue we have today, now that is something that needs to be taken care of, ASAP.
"Even when I was a minister in the government and my colleague minister said crime is not a problem, I had a problem with that - if I was the Minister of National Security, the criminals of this country would know that there are consequences for their actions."
Mr McCartney said the government has a responsibility to protect all citizens, and that a great deal could have been done to prevent the rise in criminal activity.
"We are an undisciplined society - the government has some responsibility to ensure that their citizens are safe by putting certain mechanisms in place and allowing the police to do their job," he said.
Comments
dacy 12 years, 7 months ago
MR. MCCARTNEY IS THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER...? BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO RESPOND BEFORE YOU ARE SURE THAT IS WHAT YOU MEANT TO SAY...TAKE YOUR TIME CAUSE SOMEONE MIGHT DISAGREE AND YOU NEED TO CLARIFY WHAT YOU SAID...
BigD1 12 years, 7 months ago
Dacy I agree with you 100%...heres my comment i posted to him quiting as leader if he loses his seat.
This was always the problem I had with Mr. Mccartney. He left the FNM after only two years becuase things wasn't going his way and rather that fixing the problems from within he decided to quit and start his own Party. Now he's saying if he gets beaten at the polls he will quit as leader of his own party. WOWWWW. So if by some misfortune he becomes PM and things don't go his way or Unions strike for unreasonable reasons or people don't agree with him and his policies.....etc I guess he would quit as PM too. He can't be serious
dacy 12 years, 7 months ago
THEY SAY THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS...NOW I UNDERSTAND WHAT DNA COLOUR IS "GREEN" . I WAS INTERESTED IN THE PARTY BUT EVERYTIME I HEAR OR SEE THE LEADER I AM REMAINDED OUR SYSTEM WE ARE ELECTING THE LEADING OF OUR COUNTRY...AND MCCARTNEY WITH ALL IS PASSION IS NOT READY.
HIS BOLDNESS IS THAT OF MR. INGRAHAM AND HIS BEHAVIOUR/WORDS ARE THOSE OF MR. CHRISTIE (SCARY)...HE NEEDS TO CHECK HIS DNA!
AFTER OBSERVING HIM AND THE DNA - HE SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE FIRE AND LET HIS PAPA GROOM HIM...HE IS POLITICALLY IMMATURE, ANGRY AND ENVIOUS - THUS THE COLOUR GREEN.
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