St. Kitts – Nevis PM Urges Control and Restraint
Gang violence continues to be a major challenge in St. Kitts and Nevis, but Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas says key local, regional, and international alliances have been forged to sharpen his government’s effectiveness in battling this scourge.
He said Tuesday that while political divisiveness is tearing countries apart beyond the shores of the nation, the co-operation between his St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party-led Federal Government and the Nevis Reformation Party-led Nevis Island Administration has never been greater.
Appearing on his weekly radio programme “Ask the Prime Minister,” Dr. Douglas noted he has spoken about gang crime and violence on the programme many times.
“Members of the public have talked about it on this programme and elsewhere, and all of us really do want St. Kitts and Nevis to break away from the gang violence that has gripped so many other countries. But I cannot stress enough how important it is going to be for the public to start looking, not just at the gang members but at the general behavior in our society ““ because that is where the problem starts…that is where the unraveling starts”…and then the small negatives that we ignore become really huge after a while…And then, we look up one day, and find out that we have young people who are moving in all the wrong directions,” he said.
As the Federation begins Carnival celebrations which will last until early January, Prime Minister Douglas warned about excessive drinking and revelry.
