Radar system to stop gun, drug dealers

Gun and drug dealers, money launderers, persons involved in the trafficking of contraband goods and other illegal activities, who use various exit and entry points across St.Vincent and the Grenadines to ply their trades, may find their days of doing so numbered.{{more}}

Prime Minister Dr.Ralph Gonsalves, at a press conference on Monday, disclosed that the Government of St.Vincent and the Grenadines, with the assistance of Trinidad and Tobago, will be setting up at least three radar sites, two on mainland St.Vincent and one in the Grenadines.

These radar sites are expected to provide a 360 degree hawk-eyed view of the country. Similar radar sites are expected to be set up in Grenada, St. Lucia and Barbados.

“We are going at the drug traffickers. We are going at the money launderers, and as you notice that since we have been going at them in systematic manner, there has been in fact a decline in gun violence,” said Dr.Gonsalves, adding that one gun crime is too many.

Dr. Gonsalves used the opportunity to appeal to the nation to give information since the work cannot be done by the police alone.

He said sometimes the criminals in St.Vincent and the Grenadines behave as though the police should read them ‘The Beatitudes’.

“I have expressed my position on that already. A hardened criminal you must not read them ‘The Beatitudes’,” said Dr.Gonsalves. (HN)