Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has announced the development of ‘crucial model legislation’ for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to facilitate arrests across the region.
Rowley spoke at Friday’s second CARICOM Crime and Violence Symposium opening.
The Trinidad and Tobago leader had chaired the inaugural symposium on 17 and 18 April 2023 in his country.
He told Friday’s second such event that the region had made important strides to move commitments from mere promises to an element of reality.
Among the strides he mentioned was progress regarding facilitating the completion of the template legislation for the CARICOM arrest warrant bill.
“Our little criminal punks must now know that in every CARICOM territory, the law applies to them equally… as soon as we implement the laws with respect to warrants for their restraint- apprehension in anticipation of successful prosecution, that there are no safe harbours in any of our CARICOM territories,” Rowley told the two-day event in Guyana.
He said the measure had long been coming and congratulated the legal team.
“We would want to implement that as quickly as possible,” Rowley said.
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