Premier Speaks About Gangs and Drugs
Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 14, 2008 (CUOPM)
Premier of Nevis, Hon. Joseph Parry said Friday that while the deaths of some of the five persons who were murdered in Nevis this year, are drug or gang related, he is frightened by the meaningless deaths of two individuals who were murdered “for God knows what.”
“I can only assume that human life has lost its value in the minds of certain persons in our society. If that is so that is deadly dangerous. It is deadly dangerous because it means that anybody can be wiped out at any time,” said Premier at the opening session of a National Consultation on Crime.
He said: “The criminals are not interested in political parties, are not interested in ministers of government, they are not interested in your role or rank in society. They indulge in themselves and they are satisfied in whatever they wish to satisfy.”
Premier Parry said that the economy of Nevis is nearly totally dependent on tourism and “every one of us in every village in every part of Nevis and in every part of St. Kitts and Nevis, I would want to assume, we would understand the need to survive.”
“The need to have jobs, the need to have an income and the need to have money in the treasury, the need to be able to send our children to school, the need to own homes, the need to be able to have a recreation. It just seems to me that in spite of all this, some people do not care. They do not care if they do damage to the economy and they can destroy the country, I do not know if they are aware, but I do believe that we would have to make them aware. It just seems that nothing matters,” he said.
