Bahamas: Prime Minister issues stern warning to criminals

The Prime Minister said that even as his administration steadfastly
confronts the big issues with regard to crime and its causes, “we will
also increasingly address other mindsets and behaviour of which
criminal ideas and enterprise often take advantage, and in which they
feel at home”.

Ingraham said every citizen has a moral obligation and a civic duty
to ensure that “we are not adding to a culture of lawlessness in which
the violent criminal is encouraged.

“It is justice that is supposed to be blind and steadfast, not the
citizens of a country turning a blind eye, winking and nodding at
criminal behaviour.  Most seriously, this applies to those who by
omission or commission or clever evasion aid and abet serious
criminals.”

The Prime Minister said that violent is having a drastic effect on
the entire country and the government would respond with every means
necessary “through economic empowerment and social policy, through
micro-initiatives such as character education and community service,
and through proven alternative sentencing and restorative justice
programmes”.

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