VOX POP: What can be done to lower crime in St Thomas?

What can be done to lower crime in St Thomas?

Neville Talbot, mason

We need employment to control people's minds so they don't stray. Poor people need to be addressed and helped. And places like Morant Bay have too many eyes watching you. They're always living up to some expectation or another.

Kenneth Burke, farmer

Ministers' wages are too high. We need to budget so that the (excess) can be used elsewhere. There is a big gap between the upper class and the lower class. More lands need to be released for the youth so they can get in agriculture, and then we need to invest heavily in agriculture.

Deidre-Ann Donaldson, unemployed

Crime is not just from the bottom up, it's from the top come down. Everybody, especially government ministers, needs to be honest and open about what they do in and for our country.

Rohan Allen, fisherman

Mostly the young boy them have the gun, so we need fi tell them fi put down the gun and think a different way. The Government needs to also create some jobs. These young people need jobs. They're sitting down there not doing anything and they come out of school with all these subjects and no jobs.

Audrey Edwards, homemaker

We need to stop the informer this and that. When people see crimes, they must report them to the police.