With almost 30 homicides for the year, the majority of them by the gun, a prosecutor has declared the buck should stop at the law courts.
That’s why State Counsel Paul Prescod believes that two men who pleaded guilty to having five guns, one a large calibre Desert Eagle handgun, should get starting sentences of 15 years or more.
“Barbados has almost 30 murders this year, the majority at the hands of the gun, and we have five guns coming into Barbados in sugar, something that is made in Barbados.
“If those guns had got into Barbados, I shudder to think what would have happened,” he said.
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