The People’s National Party leadership in St James is expressing concerns over the “worrying” trend of crime and violence in the western end of the island, particularly the parish St James.
As such, the leadership has recommended that the government considers forming a bipartisan, community-based action groups to help them tackle what seems to be an insurmountable problem.
The PNP’s Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams and Ashley-Ann Foster, have expressed alarm at what seems to be the taking over of the wider western belt by a violent minority, who seem bent on creating mayhem.
“The unprecedented upsurge in serious criminal activities and the climbing murder rate within St James in particular, is unacceptable and must not be allowed to continue” said Foster, the PNP’s chairman of St James Central.
Foster claims that with the government not signaling any “plan of worth to deal with this growing scourge”, most are left to ponder if the country is running on auto-pilot.
The St James leadership have said that Security Minister Robert Montague should tell the people of St James and the nation, what are his plans to address the out-of-control crime situation.
“Our party leadership in St James is of the view that the lack of response to the outcry of the people to the government surrounding this calamitous issue, has been woefully inadequate and borders on a dereliction of duty to the Jamaican people,” Foster said.
