UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26, CMC -Jamaica Friday said that the crisis in Haiti has laid bare a wider truth in that transnational criminal networks trafficking arms and narcotics as he called for a global war on gangs to deal with the situation.
Addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, (UNGA), Prime Minister Andrew Holness, said that gangs are now global syndicates with resources that rival nation states.
Holness, who is the current chairman of the 15-member regional integration movement, CARICOM, said that the Caribbean has created regional security mechanisms, but these efforts alone cannot match the scale of the threat.
“What is needed is a united front, with the same urgency, resources, and coordination the world has applied to terrorism. Only then can we turn the Caribbean—and indeed the wider region—into a true zone of peace.”
Holness said that Jamaica has made significant progress in tackling gangs and reducing its homicide rate by more than 50 per cent in recent years.
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