Minister of National Security Marvin Dames and Dr David Allen at the Ministry of National Security Advisory Council on Crime. Photo: Terrel W. Carey Sr/Tribune Staff
By RIEL MAJOR
IN the wake of a ninth-grade student being fatally stabbed, the National Crime Council is drawing up plans for ways to help end gang violence.
According to psychiatrist Dr David Allen, the streets are not safe for children to go to and from school.
Dr Allen said: “This is no minor thing, we can’t have a country where children can’t walk home safely. Kids should be allowed to go to school safely and walk home safely. We need something on the streets now and it seems like the minister recognises that too.
“Kids are in gangs whether they want to be or not... and when traveling home there are certain streets they’re allowed to walk on and other streets they can’t. This issue indicates that the kids on the streets are subjected to gang involvement depending on where they walk. We have to do something sooner or later.
“Minister Dames told me to get some proposals together because he’s ready to act.”
Carlos Reid, reformed gang leader, said the country has an organised gang problem.
Mr Reid said: “Now we have in this country where we have moved from youth gangs to organised gangs and here is the problem, once money is involved, you’re in trouble. These brothers are now being funded by the drug trade and not just the drug trade but the gun trade. When money is involved it becomes more survival than people just looking for something to do.”
The Ministry of National Security is working on programmes to combat gangs, he said.
Mr Reid added: “Violence has to be treated like a disease and we must deal with it in three aspects prevention, intervention and quarantine.”
Ninth-grade student Perry Rolle Jr was fatally stabbed last month following an incident outside a school with another teenage boy.
A teenager has since been charged in connection with the incident.
Comments
bogart 5 years, 7 months ago
Duh....not only chillrens.....but include old wemmen....adults.....even dogs an cats..anyone !!!!!
sheeprunner12 5 years, 7 months ago
Children have parents ............ where are the parents??????
Just listening to the "parents" of Perry Louis Rolle Jr was enough to make every responsible Bahamian parent cringe with embarrassment.
But that is probably how 90% of Bahamian homes are run today .......... utter chaos and no accountability & leadership .......................... aka fatherlessness.
rawbahamian 5 years, 7 months ago
The Government has again missed the point !!! Parents and guardians need to be held legally responsible for the shit their wards get into and until that happens, this issue will only get much, much worse !!!
BahamaPundit 5 years, 7 months ago
Of course we can. We can have a murder every second if we do nothing and act like sissies. Bang. Shoot the murderer dead after a short trial. All of a sudden, the streets will be peaceful and empty at night. Bang, bang, bang. No more crime in Bahama Land. Expel the pirates. Restore commerce.
sheeprunner12 5 years, 7 months ago
You don't mean that ....... sounds Trumpian
Well_mudda_take_sic 5 years, 7 months ago
These blithering imbeciles are all about plenty talk and no do. They like to see and hear themselves talk in just about any form of media that will give them the time of day.
stillwaters 5 years, 7 months ago
We can't have it? We do have it already!!!!!!
bogart 5 years, 7 months ago
WID ALL DESE HIFALUTIN....BIG TIME EXPERTS...ANALYSTS....ACADEMICS...COHORTS...COLLEAGUES....SUIT AN TIE ....MORAL CHISTIAN LEADERS......under da tutalege results of what it is today.....NOW SOMEHOW ...DA SAME EXPERTS....HAV SOLUTIONS NOW...?????......or jus create agencies to create jobs incomes for more colleagues an cohorts......how many programs done created...by experts...????....an how many more ?????....
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