UWP Calls Out The Government After Weekend Homicides

The opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has strongly criticised the government over the current crime situation, following what party Public Relations Officer, Lenard ‘Spider, Montoute described as a ‘bloody weekend’. He said the situation was ‘unacceptable’ and could not be allowed to continue. “We just experienced over this last weekend what I refer to as a bloody weekend, another bloodbath, Saint Lucia being drenched in the blood of our young sons in particular,” Montoute told a news conference on Tuesday. He noted that the country had recorded five homicides between Friday and Sunday. The fatal shootings included two separate double homicides at Marchand, Castries and Rodney Bay. In addition, a police officer shot and killed a masked man during a home invasion at the officer’s Augier, Vieux Fort residence. Mountoute told Tuesday’s opposition press conference that the government seemed to accept that it was ‘business as usual’ to the extent that at the time he spoke, there had been no decisive, definitive statement regarding the administration’s plan to deal with the crime surge and calm citizens’ fears. The former Gros Islet MP reiterated a call for the Prime Minister, responsible for National Security, to dismiss the ‘ineffective and failed’ Minister...