And that initiative is just one way that the Ministry of Home Affairs is trying to curb gang-related crime. But it's not enough for Shyne Barrow. Over the weekend, he took to Facebook to call for the resignation of Minister Kareem Musa. But the ComPol wasn't having it. Williams defended the minister, saying that when crime occurred under the UDP administration, no one called for the resignation of the then police minister, John Saldivar. Here's how he put it when he appeared this morning on Sunup on 7:
Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police
"The issue of crime should not be politized, crime is anybody's business and the truth be told as I've said in previous interviews that under the previous administration we have had Januarys with over 20 murders and the then minister of national security was not asked to resign. The truth is Mr Musa is trying and I think Shyne justification was that there were two murders over the weekend and because of those two murders then the minister should resign. But why? Is it the minister who is committing these murders? It's not him, at the end of the day he is doing his best. Under the previous administration we had weekends when we had ten murders over one weekend, the minister of national security then was to asked to resign. So why are going to ask a minister now to resign because there are two murder over the weekend that he did not commit?"
But while he said that there were "January's with 20 murders" in the past, we must fact check the careless Compol once again. In the past 13 years, the highest murder count for any January was 15, back in 2018. While this past January was 13 murders, the super majority of January's in the last decade saw less than a dozen.
