KINGSTON, Jamaica–The main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says it is s prepared to sit with the government to discuss measures to achieve consensus on crime in Jamaica, even as it warned that any planned meeting should be held in good faith.
Jamaica has recorded 968 murders from January 1 to August 22 this year compared with 929 killings last year, an increase of 4.2 percent.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is also reporting that there have been 767 shootings as compared with 801 for the same period last year.
PNP general secretary, Dr. Dayton Campbell, speaking at a divisional conference of his party in South West, St. Andrew constituency on Sunday, again urged Prime Minister Andrew Holness to remove Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson and National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang from their posts, claiming that the crime situation had deteriorated on their watch.
Opposition Leader, Mark Golding, speaking at the meeting, said that Prime Minister Holness’s handling of the crime situation “is failing.”
“Every critical area is failing. Crime and how you are dealing with the crime situation is failing,” Golding said.
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