Jesse Ramdeo
Senior Reporter
jesse.ramdeo@cnc3.co.tt
Bishop of the Anglican Diocese, Reverend Claude Berkley, has stated that crime, violence, murders and other acts of lawlessness continue to erode citizen’s quality of life.
While delivering the sermon for the 2024-2025 opening of the Law Term at the National Academy for the Performing Arts yesterday, the religious leader appealed for a collective effort to peg back offenders and restore peace.
“There is a need to arrest the downward, moral and spiritual spiral that is besetting our nation. I don’t intend to be alarmist, it is a minority that is creating the problem. The challenge is how could we allow a minority to govern a noble republic like this.”
Reverend Berkley maintained that law enforcement could not tackle the crime scourge alone and that stakeholders and institutions needed to act with haste.
“Men and women of goodwill must join heart and hands and minds together to push back or eventually eradicate all this minority rule happening across our land,” he said.
Reverend Berkley also identified the role of the judiciary in rebuilding law and order.
“I’m asking our judiciary to do some more leadership,” he said.
He urged that the opening ceremony of the Law Term should be viewed as a re-commitment to love.
He said, “I pray that this new term will create for us all, an environment for greater dialogue among stakeholders, for the full flow of justice and peace and for a better quality of life for all citizens, visitors and others to this country.”