Ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment with some as­pects of the Cari­com 15-point plan, chair­man of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC) Vivek Char­ran says the death penal­ty should have been made the ul­ti­mate pun­ish­ment for homi­cide and gun-re­lat­ed vi­o­lence.

In re­sponse to the re­gion­al crime talks, Char­ran said the plan ham­mered out at this week’s re­gion­al crime sym­po­sium should have in­clud­ed an in­te­grat­ed re­gion­al Coast Guard sys­tem and im­ple­men­ta­tion of re­gion­al safe hous­es for wit­ness­es.

Ex­press­ing sup­port for a planned over­haul of the Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Sys­tem, Char­ran said al­low­ing the army to act legal­ly against gangs with­out hav­ing to re­sort to a state of emer­gency was al­so a good pol­i­cy.

“We have no­ticed that no di­rect dis­cus­sion about the death penal­ty but as a de­ter­rent we feel the death penal­ty must be the ul­ti­mate pun­ish­ment for homi­cides and gun-re­lat­ed vi­o­lence,” he not­ed.

Char­ran added: “We see too many crim­i­nals pass­ing through the pe­nal sys­tem to com­mit more crimes.”

The CR­BC head ex­plained that many con­victs are re­ab­sorbed in­to gangs and con­tin­ue to ex­e­cute crime from be­hind jail walls, as “a badge of ho­n­our among crim­i­nals.”