Hope beckons as the Government’s two most recent crime abatement legislative measures astonishingly found favour with the parliamentary Opposition. Notwithstanding whatever may have triggered their sudden unexpected change of heart: impending general election, fear of additional UNC defections, or plain and simply coming of age after nine years of senseless unproductive obstructionism (2015-2024), the move comes at a pivotal time: both sides having exhausted copious initiatives in finding practical solutions to the nation’s most vexing ongoing nemesis. Given generational idiosyncrasies and the unprecedented speed at which civilisation is galloping worldwide, the destination is not only elusive but agonisingly aeons beyond reach.
A mammoth undertaking is therefore required, if only to break the camel’s back. Altogether, countless initiatives have been explored, some repeatedly: joint police-army patrols, confiscating guns and ammunition, state of emergency, high-tech border surveillance, increased school security, municipal policing, expeditious judicial processing, attempts at Government-Opposition crime talks, meticulously appointed local and foreign police commissioners, state-of-the-art technology, modern and upgraded police stations, exorbitant financial injections, costly external assistance, legislation galore and, not the least, the deflated Caricom Crime and Violence as a Public Health Issue summit: all to no avail. Unobtrusively, adhocracy has crept in—spur-o.