Ryan Ba­choo

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says it is time for the en­tire so­ci­ety "to re­view its re­la­tion­ship" with the crim­i­nal el­e­ment in this coun­try.

He re­act­ed to the quadru­ple mur­der which took place on Sun­day night. In a state­ment on his Face­book page, the Prime Min­is­ter said, "The ef­fec­tive­ness of polic­ing will be con­sid­er­ably im­proved if cit­i­zens share per­ti­nent in­for­ma­tion through the many anony­mous chan­nels."

He went fur­ther in say­ing, "The ex­pect­ed swift pro­cess­ing in the court sys­tem in­stead of man­aged au­to­mat­ic de­lays, will help to close the re­volv­ing doors, oiled by the many rights that are con­stant­ly be­ing abused by per­sons who show no con­cern for the rights of the ma­jor­i­ty who are con­stant­ly preyed up­on. The time has come if not long passed, for the en­tire so­ci­ety to re­view its re­la­tion­ship with the crim­i­nal el­e­ment amongst us."

Dr Row­ley of­fered con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies of the in­no­cent "who would have been felled by the wan­ton, in­dis­crim­i­nate, pur­pose­ful killings, the lat­est of which be­gan in Bel­mont and end­ed on the steps of the pub­lic Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal."

He added, "The out­ra­geous, vi­o­lent crim­i­nal be­hav­iour of a grow­ing num­ber of per­sons who dis­play a to­tal dis­re­gard for laws, life, com­mu­ni­ties and per­sons can on­ly ex­ist amongst us be­cause those who chose these de­struc­tive pur­suits have no re­al trep­i­da­tion over con­se­quences, and al­so have lit­tle ex­pec­ta­tion that they will be iden­ti­fied, ar­rest­ed, con­vict­ed and ul­ti­mate­ly prop­er­ly in­car­cer­at­ed."