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<span style="color: #660000">I think the present parliament has a serious problem, they don't seem to recognise that Jamaica exists in a <span style="font-weight: bold">National Security crisis</span>. In the seventies, when 300 homicides a year triggered a State of Emergency, what say now when we have in the region of <span style="font-weight: bold">2,000 homicides a year</span>???
The estimate that 20 guns enter Jamaica each time a trip is made to Haiti, is probably conservative. Even then, if several such trips are made every month, then, in a year there would have been over a thousand guns entering the island into the wrong hands.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The government needs to recognise a Security crisis, and respond appropriately to it. Which doesn't take a genius to figure out.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #000099"><span style="font-weight: bold">1. Temporarily close the sea border with Haiti, only allow travel by means of scheduled airlines. Explain to the Haitian government the nature of the circumstances, and that this is not an act of hostility;
2. Cease and confiscate, at least temporarily, all boats that can travel a certain distance. The government may step on a few toes, but it is better than the cemetaries being prematurely filled-up;
3. Ration fuel supplies, specifically at certain areas of the south coast. This would serve a two-fold purpose-
a. reduce the consumption of fuel, and force people to conserve,
b. most importantly, cut-off a needed fuel supply to the smugglers,
the government would monitor gas stations that consume too much fuel;
4. Establish an extradition treaty with the Haitian government, and seek the return of Jamaicans there with criminal records, or their arrest by the Haitian police;
5. Areas of Jamaica that have high crime rates should be temporarily put under crisis management, and be de-politicised, with the help of a civic board that answers to the Governor General, and the Courts of Law.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">I think Nanny could have done better, and put a short life on the present crime situation.</span></span>
The estimate that 20 guns enter Jamaica each time a trip is made to Haiti, is probably conservative. Even then, if several such trips are made every month, then, in a year there would have been over a thousand guns entering the island into the wrong hands.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The government needs to recognise a Security crisis, and respond appropriately to it. Which doesn't take a genius to figure out.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #000099"><span style="font-weight: bold">1. Temporarily close the sea border with Haiti, only allow travel by means of scheduled airlines. Explain to the Haitian government the nature of the circumstances, and that this is not an act of hostility;
2. Cease and confiscate, at least temporarily, all boats that can travel a certain distance. The government may step on a few toes, but it is better than the cemetaries being prematurely filled-up;
3. Ration fuel supplies, specifically at certain areas of the south coast. This would serve a two-fold purpose-
a. reduce the consumption of fuel, and force people to conserve,
b. most importantly, cut-off a needed fuel supply to the smugglers,
the government would monitor gas stations that consume too much fuel;
4. Establish an extradition treaty with the Haitian government, and seek the return of Jamaicans there with criminal records, or their arrest by the Haitian police;
5. Areas of Jamaica that have high crime rates should be temporarily put under crisis management, and be de-politicised, with the help of a civic board that answers to the Governor General, and the Courts of Law.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">I think Nanny could have done better, and put a short life on the present crime situation.</span></span>
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