INSTEAD of fixing the crime problem in the country, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is busy playing golf.
This from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar in a statement on Thursday afternoon, after Dr Rowley appeared on the TV6 Morning Edition and said that the crime network was being run by people behind bars.
She said, “Today, speaking about crime on the TV6 morning programme, Rowley made a very frightening statement. He said that the ‘gang brains’ are in prison and the crime network is being run by these people who are already behind bars.”
Persad-Bissessar said, if Dr Rowley knows who the ‘big fish’ are and that they are in the prisons communicating with accomplices on the outside, the questions that arise are:
- What is being done to tackle this problem?
- How are these jailed criminals conducting business?
- What is the status of the scanners and jammers for the prisons?
- Why are teams of law enforcement not sent into the prisons to search every nook and cranny and seize devices that are being used to call murder hits and organize crime?
- Have our intelligence services fallen apart, or are they being used only to spy on the opposition?
- Why is he and his government not working to intercept what is happening in the prisons?
She added that the government does not have an anti-crime plan and does not know how to fix our country’s problems but letting things fester.
She said, “After taking to the TV6 television platform, even being handled with kid gloves and handed questions on a silver platter, all dictator Rowley could offer the country were the same old excuses for his failures to address crime. He is clearly on his last legs and has run out of anything useful or new to say.
“Wake up Trinidad and Tobago, Rowley is aware of the deadly crime problem, but instead of fixing it, he chooses to busy himself golfing and comes out only when it’s TV time with his usual mantra of ‘blame Kamla, blame the citizens’.”
