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Government Holds Meeting To Discuss National Crime Issues

The Government of Anguilla held a meeting at the Chief Minister’s Conference Room on Wednesday to discuss several issues of national importance relative to Crime. This Meeting lasted for three hours and was held in an effort to afford Ministers, shareholders and stakeholders of Anguilla to seek measures and policies to mitigate the rising tide of criminal activities particularly the upsurge in gun related robberies. The meeting was considered timely and will achieve relevance beyond this particular time.


Sections of Government, Tourism, Police, Immigration, Education and Church Officials at meeting
Sections of Government, Tourism, Police, Immigration, Education and Church Officials at meeting
The Ministers of Government and others present are outraged and incensed about this wave of criminality and convened the meeting to formulate a strategy to deal with it. Mr. Fleming pointed out that Anguilla is now sweltering under changing times and as such steering the course that has been chartered is going to demand more vigilance, tenacity, determination and commitment than ever before.

Chief Minister Fleming said that the latest criminal activities serve to remind us that there are those in our midst intent on destroying our society for their own sinister purposes. Mr. Fleming said they will not be allowed to succeed. Government is employing the entire Anguillian society not to succumb to a growing sense of powerlessness against these criminal elements. Our society cannot be allowed to decay any further and all living within Anguilla, as well as without, must play their part in ensuring that criminal behaviours are eradicated from our midst. Crime affects us all. It impacts our national development negatively, it threatens our personal security; it severely affects the investment climate; it impacts negatively on the Tourism Industry; and it reduces all our efforts at developing a place fit for human habitation.


Sections of Government, Tourism, Police, Immigration, Education and Church Officials at meeting
Sections of Government, Tourism, Police, Immigration, Education and Church Officials at meeting
Out of the meeting there is an understanding that a new approach must be forthcoming; one that entails more than just the Royal Anguillla Police Force and the Criminal Justice System. It must entail changes in the way we raise our children, more stringent controls in the Immigration System, provision of opportunities for the disenfranchised, and a sense of humanity and respect for life and property amongst other things.

Government recognizes that success does not immune a nation from issues and concerns. Government is calling upon every person to an active citizen, not spectators – to let us work together to further improve our communities and protect our lives. The time is now for us to focus all our energies on the real issues affecting us.




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