Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing the pub­lic to do their part in se­cur­ing their com­mu­ni­ties by part­ner­ing with law en­force­ment, not­ing that safe neigh­bour­hoods can­not be achieved if cit­i­zens with­hold po­ten­tial­ly life-sav­ing in­for­ma­tion.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia ques­tions on the crime woes af­fect­ing the coun­try dur­ing an East­er Egg Hunt and East­er Bon­net com­pe­ti­tion at his con­stituen­cy of­fice on El Do­ra­do Road, Tun­pau­na, yes­ter­day, Alexan­der ac­knowl­edged that mur­ders were con­tin­u­ing even as a State of Emer­gency (SoE) re­mains in ef­fect.

Among these mur­ders were 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton and his fa­ther Joseph Sut­ton, 25, who were killed while in bed at their Dun­don­ald Hill, St James home ear­ly on March 31.