Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Justice call

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Let the punishment fit the crime!
That’s the call going out from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart to the law courts.
Stuart, speaking yesterday at the Democratic Labour Party’s (DLP) 56th annual conference in George Street, St Michael, said  such a move could help the police in combating crime in Barbados.  
In praising the police for reducing crime, he said: “The police efforts must be reinforced in the courts of law by timely dispensation of justice in a manner that ensures that the punishment inflicted fits the crime which was committed.”
Read the full story in today’s DAILY NATION.

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