By NICO SCAVELLA
Tribune Staff Reporter
nscavella@tribunemedia.net
THE Democratic National Alliance Deputy Chairman Ethric Bowe yesterday called for National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage to resign or have Prime Minister Perry Christie relieve him of his duties.
Mr Bowe said while Dr Nottage is not incapable of being the Minister of National Security, the country needs a “change” and a “signal that something different is going to be happening with crime.”
Mr Bowe’s comments come after last week’s fatal shooting of 31-year-old Sean Neville near his home in the Culbert’s Hill area off Prince Charles Drive, and the charging of 28-year-old Katriona Gilbert this week with murder for causing the death of Ariel Lowe, whose partially burned body was found in Miller’s Heights on February 23 with a black cord wrapped around her neck.
The homicides raised the murder count for 2015 to 24, an increase of five over the first two months of last year.
Addressing the issue of crime reduction at a press conference yesterday, Mr Bowe said: “Dr Bernard Nottage is my friend, but Dr Nottage needs to either resign or the Prime Minister needs to relieve him of his duties. Not that he isn’t capable, not that he is not competent. But what we need is a change. We need a signal that something different is going to be happening with crime.
“We have to fix this country because if we don’t do it soon, we’ll be beyond fixing,” Mr Bowe said.
“Crime is killing this country. We have to do something, we have to do it now.”
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