BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sept 22, CMC – Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne says the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) will not be accepting Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s invitation to sit on a National Advisory Council on Citizen Security announced as one of the government’s crime fighting strategies following a surge in shootings, several of them fatal.
Last Thursday, Mottley told the country the council would be immediately tasked with providing a comprehensive approach to combating crime and restoring stability. Its creation came on the heels of a mass shooting at a bar in the capital, in which three people were killed and eight others injured.
But a briefing on Saturday, Thorne said that after consulting with the party’s Executive Council, a decision was taken to decline the invitation, primarily because of the absence of critical voices on the council which raised the DLP’s doubts about the ability of the body to be effective.
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