Caribbean Leaders for
Anti-crime Strategies
Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
leaders on Sunday close
a special two-day summit
focused in the analysis
of the violence
situation in the region.
The debate, they said,
will allow pondering on
crime and public
security, and establish
a strategy and action
plan to restrain the
increasing wave of
regional violence.
The crime rate has
considerably increased
in several Caribbean
islands, particularly
Jamaica, Guyana,
Bahamas, and Trinidad
and Tobago, with over
2,500 crimes reported
last year in those four
countries.
"We believe we can draw
up appropriate
solutions," Trinidad and
Tobago"s Prime Minister
Patrick Manning said
during the meeting"s
opening on Saturday.
It has been made clear
during the forum that
some of the policies to
be adopted might be
inconsistent with other
areas or inappropriate
for certain countries,
but participants have
agreed it is necessary
to assume a common,
favorable stance for the
region. |
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