AG paying close attention to gun violence
“We have a fight in terms of how do we re-socialise many of our young people. We have a real serious fight… We have to work out how is it that we can now be developing young men in particular, who see nothing wrong with the taking of another life.”
The AG however made it clear that reducing the number of firearms is not the fight of the Royal Barbados Police Force alone, but must entail all the security agencies as well as society and the families.
Brathwaite also pointed out to the House that Barbados still has many good young people.
“We need to big them up more,” he said.
“There are many positive activities by our young people, but unfortunately these stories don’t reach our newspapers very often. These stories don’t even reach Facebook very often. Whenever you look at what people post on Facebook, there are seldom good stories... If somebody gets shot down in town, that reaches Facebook. But if somebody creates a new gadget, that doesn’t reach us ... We focus too of much on the negative.” (TL)