State of Emergency needed for Enterprise

“The Government doesn’t want that because they criticised it when they were in Opposition but I think it would be good because you would be able to search houses properly and keep people off the streets at certain hours to stop them from burning down houses, from kicking down people’s doors and from killing them in their homes,” she said.

She spoke with reporters yesterday at Empowerment Hall, Maloney where dozens of Spiritual Shouter Baptists gathered to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Shouters’ Prohibition Ordinance of 1917 and its repeal in 1951.

“Too much crime in the country, so this is a sad time.

We cannot just commemorate this being the 100th anniversary.

“We want to ask the Government, our country, let us (work together) because detection is low, everything is low and I think we left things go out of hand.” Gray-Burke advocated immediate action to train the children of today to live a morally upright life.

“We have to grab the bull by the horns; not hang people because hanging may not be the answer, and train the little ones from kindergarten right up to adulthood, because we are losing a generation but we’ve got to try to save the one coming up.” Asked if part of the problem in tackling crime involved the police having difficulty prosecuting criminals, Gray-Burke agreed.

“They can’t get a grip because the criminal commits a crime here then runs to another area and hides and commits a crime there too.” The solution? “You have to have a surge in detection. you must be able to detect crimes and then to charge people.

“Also a limited state of emergency would give you added control; criminals wouldn’t be walking about free at all hours,” Gray-Burke declared.