KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, MC – Leader of the main opposition party – the New Democratic Party, Godwin Friday, says crime is in such a state across the country that it needs a national event to bring people together to address it.
“We now need almost a national event to say, ‘Listen, we’re pulling the brakes on this. Everybody, as a society. This is not something you should be dealing with as a partisan political issue,” said Friday, while speaking on a local radio program.
“I mean, let’s start with a big national event. And I will organize it if nobody else will do so, where the community comes together and says, ‘Listen, as a community, we’re going to do something about this,’” the opposition leader said.
He spoke in the aftermath of an incident where a woman was killed, becoming the eighth homicide victim this year and the third in less than a week.
“We have to have greater trust between the police and communities for dealing with offenses because this is where you get a conviction. This is where you get people feeling that if I do something, other persons will cooperate with the police, and we will deal with it.”
The opposition leader said his proposed national event “is not kumbaya.”
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