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Jensen La Vende

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is warn­ing that the pro­posed Home In­va­sion (Self De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, law does not ex­empt a home­own­er from due process when a dead­ly in­ci­dent oc­curs at their home. The Op­po­si­tion is stress­ing that the stand-your-ground law, as it is be­ing called, is nei­ther a get-out-of-jail-free card nor a panacea for crime.

Speak­ing dur­ing the par­ty’s first con­sul­ta­tion on the pro­posed law at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­mind­ed the crowd of a state­ment made by De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge that the leg­is­la­tion would al­low a home­own­er to shoot a per­pe­tra­tor in the back and be vin­di­cat­ed.