And of course it wouldn't be a Shyne Barrow press conference if he didn't have something negative to say about police commissioner Chester Williams and his minister Kareem Musa.
We'll spare you the now reflexive chorus calling for them to resign, but he did add a wrinkle. He said that the growth industry these two are most responsible for is the growth in the issuance of gun licenses - which he claims - without proof - were fewer during the UDP's tenure.
Shyne Barrow, Leader Of The Opposition
"Chester should be the C.E.O. of the new industry because licenses, gun licenses the new industry, he can say what he wants, he needs to remember that he was the. Commissioner for a few years under the UDP and I can tell you, you are journalists, do an F.O.I and ask them to open up the gun license registry and you will see, go back to Commissioner Whylie, even Jeffries but let's stay to Whylie and you will see that very few gun licenses were given out per annum. You will see that under the UDP when Chester was commissioner there were very few gun licenses. You heard the former Minister Peyrefitte say yesterday that he had written to the commissioner to give someone a gun license and the commissioner said no, so when the commissioner wants to blame all of the failings of his incompetence on the U.D.P it is very disingenuous and you just need to go to. The gun license registry and you will see that the increase in the issuance of gun licenses has increased exponentially under the P.U.P government."
The issuance of gun licenses is a subject that's on the agenda for tonight's Uncut.
