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Domestic violence-related homicides remain major challenge for Trinidad and Tobago says minister
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
by Stephen Cummings
Caribbean Net News Trinidad Correspondent
Email: stephen@caribbeannetnews.com
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago's National Security Minister, Senator Martin Joseph, has admitted that certain types of homicides now occurring in the country remain a real challenge for government but has vowed to put measures in place to deal with the situation.
He also said the last quarter of 2006 was the bloodiest as it relates to murders when compared with previous quarters. The Minister added that most of the killings had been associated with gangs or drug dealings.
Minister Joseph was responding to a question in the Senate on Tuesday during a private motion brought by Independent Senator and Criminologist, Professor Ramesh Deosaran. Professor Deosaran has been calling on government to explain what it is doing to deal with the crime situation in the country. But on Tuesday Minister Joseph attempted to explain.
"Notice I am emphasizing drug-related and gang-related. As it stands now there are levels of homicides for which we cannot take control over (at this time) and those are the domestic related ones," said Joseph as he spoke in the Senate.
Meanwhile, the country's President, George Maxwell Richards, has spoken out against the gruesome killing of six-year-old Sean Luke.
In an official statement, President Maxwell said the Oath of Office which he took three years ago did not require him to remain silent on issues, which are keeping him awake at night.
President Richards said, "Within the last few days, just when it was thought that the level of criminal activity could not get worse, we learned with abject horror of the killing of a child in a manner so cruel that many are unable to think about it without weeping." He added that he was no exception.
He recalled that last year, "in addition to the burgeoning rate of crime, we were also forced to deal with decapitation, dismemberment, live interment and torture of victims as the spate of kidnapping intensified."
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