He said it was a “decades-long” problem and I smiled. In other words, crime was Douglas’ and Labour’s fault. During the campaign when they had all the solutions, all the answers, they knew that it was a “decades-long” problem. Timothy Harris knew that. He had been there for eighteen years. Now because they have no clue where to start, blame Douglas and Labour.
I wonder if Team Unity didn’t understand that they were expected to have hit the ground running. Running with all the solutions to everything that they had criticised while in opposition. The Basseterre High School. The Citizenship by Investment Programme. The crime. Just to name a few.
They never let on that the solutions would have been to blame Labour and Douglas. Nobody voted for that.
For how they went on when a young man was gunned down in the hospital when Labour was in power, no one, after two and a half years of Team Unity, should have been able to enter the hospital at 9 am with a loaded gun and pump eight bullets into another person.
The gun man obviously didn’t know that just last week in parliament, the penalty for possession of an illegal firearmand ammunition had been increased to fifteen years.
The reality is that we have a huge problem in the federation. We have to uncover the root causes of our problem if we really want to control crime.
When we reach the point where the deputy prime minister’s house and his vehicle can be shot up, we are in trouble. BIGLY.
The criminals do not care. They are becoming like the USA. If they want you, they are coming for you. No matter the time nor the place. Nor how much collateral damage is caused.
And that mind set of the criminals takes me back to the Basseterre High School and how our children became collateral damage in the quest to obtain political power.
Children and parents were conned into believing that every pimple, every rash, every headache had been caused by contamination at the BHS.
Teachers, who held a position of trust, respect and credibility, easily convinced the unsuspecting that something had to be wrong. After all, teachers do not lie. Right?