Uducatéd men turning to crime, say lawyers left secondary schools with no This Was important to build a profile

—~

by SANKA PRiCE of the individuals to get some idea of

certification. They did not go into any
programmes to learn skills and few of what’s being their actions. This exerdse
DEEP SOCIAL PROBLEMS could be the would determine whether Barbados
cause of the recent flare-up of gun the’m got jobs.
“They are just winding up on the had a more serious situation
violence here, and not just illegal drug confronting it, he said.
activity, according to two leading blocks where they are exposed to drugs
and alcohol. The result is what we are “We seem to be purposely leaving
criminal lawyers. out that social perspective [buti the
Andrew Pilgrim, a Queen’s Counsel, seeing~ now,” lamented the former problem might be deeper than we are
and Arthur Holder are convinced the president of the Barbados Bar
looking at. We need to see if these
recent spate of shootings is a result of Association. young men coming before the courts
the deficient state of some youths. They Holder said a biographical analysis
was needed on the youths involved to charged with these firearm offences axe
said this must be addressed to coming from a select group of schools, a
effectively tackle the problem. look at their age, ~the schools they
attended, their drop-out rate, where select social background,” said Holder, a
“The truth is we are lying down in trained social worker with a master’s
the bed where our education system they lired~ their home environment,
degree in social work focusing on HOLDER (FP)
has failed us,” said Pilgrim, noting that friends, the relationships they had, and ~ Continued on page 4.
each year more than 100 young men suchlike.
 Griffith: Firearms
,being imported
q~ Barbados as 0parts and being assembled here.

~in pieces
SOME ILLEGAL FIREARMS are coming into
~ This was revealed by Acting Commissioner of Police
~ Tyrone Griffith yesterday during a Press conference.
~ In response to questions from the media, Griffith
)‘ listed some of them as .40 calibre, .45 and 9mm.

In relation to comments he made earlier this

,p year suggesting that guns wer~ being rented,
he said two police officers were shot by firearms
which were rented.
However, he said he did not think it was necessary
to have another gun amnesty in Barbados.
“We have some very young men who have very little j
~2I regard for life and I am wondering which of those
~t’ young men are going to volunteer their weapon. I don’t
see amnesties playing any significant role as far as the
current issue that we have.”
When asked about police conducting random spot
checks in order to seize some of these weapons, the
~ acting commissioner admitted there was a need to
/ challenge people on the streets “because that is where
the firearms are”. However, he added police would
operate within the confines of the law and any spot
checks would be based on information and intelligence.
While he revealed drugs were an underlying
factor in shootings, Griffith said it also had
a lot to do with turf wars. However, he said there
was not a lot of evidence that guns were being
imported with illegal drugs.
In terms of groups in certain communities,
he said they would always be there.
“And there are some leaders that were around
for a very long time who are difficult to rein
in because of how they operate. They are good
at what they do that is, they stay far front
—

the action and have people work for them ~‘

Regarding the police ~ going forward
the acting commissioner said they would investigate
every gun crime and be assiduous in bringin~g
people to justice as well as enforce their effortS~
in challenging communities.
by RIA GOODMAN and JAMIE
CARRINGTON
THE POLICE MUST SHOULDER
blame for some of the deviant
behaviour in our society.
“They (police) need to be
proactive and not reactive,
as is the case that’happens
now around here.”
That’s how one resident of
Station Hill, St Michael,
summed up his feelings about
the frequent gunplay and other
crimes that have been
occurring in and around
the district.
Now a virtual ghost town
since the arrests of a number of
suspects from the
neighbourhood accused of the
murder of sChool teacher
Dwight Holder, the general
feeling was that the police were
aware of some of the deviancy
that occurred but had simply
waited until the “horse bolt
from the stable” to take action.
“The police know that a lot
of these fellas around here
have been involved in crime for
a long time, but they simply did
nothing ~boüt it until
somebody lose their life
Some of these guys have been
allowed to walk freely and
nothing has been happening
to them,” echoed
another resident.
There has also been a call
for stiffer penalties for those
caught with guns and the re
introduction of hanging for
those found guilty of murder.
It’s a community whose
residents feel that with the
main police station (District
“A”) just feet away, Station Hill
and its environs should not be
battling with any crime
problem~
“Whether it be gunplay,
drugs or otherwise, keep these
youngsters on the run and let
them know that the law rules,”
was how one resident summed
it up.
Bad parenting has also been
singled out as another major
contributing factor to the
increase in deviant behaviour
among our youngsters.
Guns now appear to be the primary tool of
a significant number of today’s criminals and the
source of much of the fear of crime across the
country, but as far as many of the residents of
Station Hill and surrounding districts are concerned
the deadly weapons cannot be the cause.
Today, in Part 2 of our series aimed at harvesting
the views of ordinary J3arbadians on the sudden
spike in gun violence, we share the results of the visit
to this highly populated urban community by our
team of reporters and photographers.
And it appears there is more than enough blame
to go around, as residents pointed to ineffective
policing, the failure of many parents to adequately
provide guidance to their offspring and a judicial
system that is not tough enough.
Again, we invite you, our readers, to share your
views with us at editorial@nationnews.com. (RRM)
Next door, in the Bush then the innocent are caught in
HalllWaterford districts, which the middle,” contended
were still reeling from the the resident.
~gunning down of “homie” A mother of three thildren
Holder, there was a clear sense agreed that parents neglected
of anger among some of the their duties and had their
residents. babies on the road at an
“Parents should go to jail early age.
with their young criminals,” “A lot of parents are not
was the outcry from a villager feeding their children and have
as he expressed concern that them begging. The parents are
the children’s behaviour was very, very young and they more
passed down from their look to buy fancy things. The
parents. important things the child
needs they do not buy, not even
Troubled for themselves,” she said.
However, the mother, who
“This age group is coming up identified herself as “Jackson”,
with parents who would go and gave praises to single parents
beat a teacher,~’ said the who performed their roles well
villager. to ensure their children turned
The resident said that one of out to be decent individuals
the accused involved in the in society.
fatal shooting in Longford Some believe that the
Place and Bedford Land, Bush economic downturn of the
Hall, St Michael, on August 6, country, which resulted in a
grew up in the community. He number of job losseS, was the
was always troubled from his reason crime was on the rise.
childhood days, he said. However, Jackson disagreed.
He believed that the police “Jobs are not the problem.
were ahead of the crime but in Even if they got jobs they still
some cases refused to take do not stay in the work. I work
action. with some who do drugs and
“Police can do much more. are underperforming. They get
They know where to find the to work late but they still get
criminals but they want the chances,” said Jackson.
people to kill each other and A youngster from the Bush
I’
 increase in crime this year but
-he. belibved that having
ambition made a person see life
differently.
“If you
~ ~ don’t know
~ ~ whatya
~ \~ want, ya
would
be wild,”
he said.
The young man, who
preferred to remain
anonymous, said having
a visio~i worked to keep him on
a straight and narrow path.
“My main goal is that I
going on the sea and work as a
chef and bartender. I will keep
myself out of trouble because
that ix what I want to do. I got
my life goal set,” he said.
He admitted that he wa~ not
happy about the crime level in
his neighbourhood and did not
know what would make a man
kill anothet
“Ya does feel a bit uneasy.
It is a community; ya got
childten running ‘bout here
and when things like that
happening they can get hurt.
It is foolishness.
“Ya really don’t know what a
man does be studying that will
make he do it.”
Chapel, of Station Hill,
St Michael, believed that the
coun4~ needed to revathp its
crimirjal justicc system.
h~bis view, administering
cori~al punishment was the
only way criminals would curb
their actions.
He said that those THE REGULAR “cool out s~4
committing crime were the junction of Longford Plal
comfortable taking away Bedford Land, Bush Hall, St
someone’s family members Michael, where school teach
but were unwilling to pay for Dwight Holder
what they had done. was gunned down.
“Ya see dem that doing the (Pictures by Christoff Griffith.)
crime, they don’t want to pay ~—,— —
when they kill people.
They do people things
and they want
to run and hide,” Chapel said.
I
Only when the sy,stem is
changed will the family
members of the deceased get
some sort of [satisfaction],
he said.
The pai~i
“These people want hanging
upside down and let the people
that feeling [the pain].
It should be an eye for an eye,”
said Chapel.
He said that the laws on
sentencing needed to be
adjusted because “when a man
go jail for six weeks, he going
court and applying for bail
and getting out” to commit
~the same crimes again.
Chapel is one who has
suffered immensely because of
the ongoing gun violence
within the community.
He had to deal with the loss
of his nephew Dwight Holder
and the shooting of another
nephew, John Weekes.
“Too many people are falling
by these guns. My heart
bu~rning every day. I cry every GODDING ROAD, Station Hill,
day,” he added. a ghost road.
 DAILY NATION:MONDAY, AUGUST 24; 2015. 21

Govt failing the~ young

people, says Ivy limer
by LYN-MARIE BLACKMAN
rn~d ALEX DOWNES Government in office so they have to
deal with the consequences of that,” looking for an easy way to make
money.
SEVERAl. YOUNG PEOPLll in The he contended. “Employment is hard to get for
Another noted that though there

I
Ivy, St Michael area aren’t seeing everyone, but [young people] Want
their glass half-full. For them, it is were problems with shootings earlier
in the year, things had quietened fast money. The fastest way is to sell
always ~half-empty. Most of them illegal stuff,” the resident said.
don’t work, including a significant down dramatically in the district.
“The place isn’t hot anymore, and Despite their despondency though,
number who “haven’t had ajob in some of the youth were apparently
ages” and they do not expect to that’s good. But people still don’t
—
realise it was people from The Ivy still finding a way to battle the odds.
find a job anytime soon. One small businessman has built
One young man who was liming causing trouble. We always say that
and people don’t believe it. h~s project entirely on his own, and
on the street corner near Howell’s is now convinced that more young
Cross Road with friends remarked [However], people from The Ivy
aren’t at war with people from The• people could take their fate into their
that the Government was not own hands and create their own
helping the young people. Ivy.”
ventures.
“Some parents cannot help them He said he heeded the call of then~
so they must survive how best they Yo~ith not working prime minister Owen Arthur when
can, even if that calls for snatching a he said young people needed to take
bag,” he told the DAILY NATION, Older people in the community
said they also felt that though matters into their own hands and
as his friends nodded in agreement, become entrepreneurs.
The despondent man noted that unemployment contributed to the
increase in gun crime, it could not be Unfortunately, he said, many
the youth were “brek” and that too other youth at the time did not listen
many from the area were already blamed entirely. Instead, they
to the call and as a result, had now
making prison their home. Speaking pointed to the genesis of the issue in
“the simple fa~ct” that too ~many found themselves out of a job and
under condition of anonymity, he idle “on the block”.
suggested that “the young men in young people just didn’t want to
work. The young entrepreneur ~aid he
the area need woi~k”. Too many felt the current Government had
children in the area were waking up When asked about the cause of failed his peers generally, but urged
hungry, he complained, the current crime wave, another
them to listen to the right advice —

“Young people put this person said he believed the issue

from people who would put them on
stemmed largely from young people
the right path.
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Stories by MARIA BRADSHAW denominator, in that of illegal At the end of July, there were
drug activity being at the core 4 782 cases recorded compared
EVEN THOUGH there has not of the dispute. to 4 312 for the same period
been a “catastrophic increase” “From an investigative Viewpoint last year, representing a ten
in gun-rebted crimes, Acting it is clear that there is an per cent hike.
Commissioner of Police Tyrone abundance of high-calibre weapons The police chief stressed that the
Griffith says there is a brge and large quantities of available increases in serious crimes were
vo~urne of iflega~ firearms on ammunition on the streets.” He nominal. He presented the following
the streets in Barbados. expressed concern that the weapons details comparing 2015 with 2014:
So far for the year, 33 firearms were being smuggled into Barbados Murder: 17 in 2015 compared
have been recovered, compared to through legitimate ports of entry. to 19 in 2014;
29 for the same period last year. A worrying trend, according to Manslaughter: nillone;
Griffith said he could not Griffith, was that many of the Robbery: 196/178;
estimate how many guns were in young men involved in feuds refused Rape: 32/36;
the hands of the criminal element to cooperate with the police when Aggravated burglary: 46/47;
but admitted: “Even though we are they were shot, preferring to exact Theft from the person: 104/99;
taking weapons off the street, the their own revenge. Burglary: 953/960;
inflow is such that the volume on “This is totally unacceptable,” he Crimes against visitors:188/182.
the island remains large.” said, and he gave the assurance “When we total these crimes,
He made the comments yesterday that police would conduct thorough we recognise there is very little
during a Press conference at Police investigations to bring the movement over the last year
Headquarters on Roebuck Street, perpetrators before the courts. — that is, for these serious
Bridgetown, to update the public He appealed to the public to crimes there was 1 340 in 2014
on the crime situation, especially assist the force in getting guns off and 1 348 in 2015, a mere increase
gun-related crimes. the streets. in eight cases,” he said.
“To date there are 1~4 cases “We have been relying heavily He reported that drug offences
of firearm-related crimes on intelligence and have been were responsible for the increase in
as opposed to 128 for the previous conducting operations to unearth crime. They were up by 212 cases.
year. That increase of six these weapons. These operations In terms of fraud, Griffith said
is not really a catastrophic have reaped much success and there were 41 more cases while
increase,” the commissioner said, would be sustained as part of our public order breaches also recorded
though he acknowledged that policing strategy.” an increase of 51.
there had been a spike of gun Griffith had earlier explained He also explained that this year
activity in recent weeks. that the 13 per cent increase in in response to the increased use of
“From a law enforcement crime at the end of July this year firearms, an a~Iditional charge wa~
perspective these gunfights are might give the impression that this added ~to the offences, that being the
as a result of feuds between rival was in respect of serious crimes, unlawful use of a firearm. He said to
fin

the proliferation of illegal guns on Barbados’
streets the youth of New Orleans, a district he
— person give he a gun and now he gine get charge for it
has described as one of his most challenging.
During a Press conference at Police Headquarters
yesterday, Griffith conceded that illegal guns were
entering the island through ports of entry, possibly
with the cooperation of officials at these facilities, and
finding themselves in the hands of criminal~.
“Our intelligence suggests that they are coming
through legitimate ports of entry. They are either
assisted by officials or not detected by them at our
[caught] with a gun? The Government. The system.
Look for de source not a youth that innocent. A wicked
when he don’t know nothing ‘bout it.”
He was supported by 53-year-old Mervin Ishmael,
who has lived in the community for 33 years and
described it as “a nice place”, but warned residents
could not solve the gun-related crimes alone1
“The Government don’t look pun us but whenever
they hear gunshots they up in here. We can’t-solve
anything in the ghetto. And just because I give good
advice don’t mean that it will happen [either] the
,“
~iji ousu uuviuusiy uut~ criminas element would looJ~
for the weakest points and so it is something that we
have to take into consideration.”
Griffith said there was a link between recent gun
violence and disputes over illegal drugs.
“These gunfights are the result of feuds between
rival groups where there is a common denominator in
that of illegal drug activity being at the core of the
dispute. From an investigative view point it is clear
that there is an abundance of high calibre weapons an
a large quantity of available ammunition on the
streets,” he said.

borders,” the top cop said. father of two added. Please see also Page 4 and Centre Pages.
“This is an untenable situation which has to be Rudy interjected: “Don’t talk to the ghetto youths
addressed if we [are] to stem the inflow of these ‘bout the guns. Talk to the people that bringing in the
weapons....” guns. We never went to the airport or seaport ~and
He revealed that there had been 134 cases of bring in no guns. .it i~ other people that bringing them
) firearm-related crime so far this year compared with
128 up to the same time last year.
in and selling them to the ghetto youths.”
Asked if there wa~ eyidence that guns were also
Ahead of the police chiefs remarks, a group of New entering the country through entry points such as Port
Orleans residents, in an interview with the Ferdinand or Port St ries, both luxury marinas in
WEEKEND NATION, questioned why the authorities
were focusing on the users of the guns and not those
• bringing them into the island. Tech GREAT DEALS
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