‘Sexual Offences Act must apply across the board’ - Manickchand

(Kaieteur News) – Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Priya Manickchand on Thursday said the Sexual Offences Act must be implemented across the board, when asked to comment on the rape and threatening behaviour allegations against embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Fizal Karimbaksh.

The question about Karimbaksh was put to Minister Manickchand during a press conference held at her ministry’s boardroom in Georgetown, specifically given that she had successfully piloted the Sexual Offences Bill in 2010, with the overwhelming support of members of the National Assembly, while serving as Minister of Human Services and Social Security.

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“Because I believe that this is a matter that is current, I prefer to stay away from speaking on the matter itself…but what I would say is this, laws are not passed in a vacuum, when countries determined there is a problem, they look to the legislator for resolution to those problem, as a result many times laws are passed with the hope of once implemented those problems will lessen or be dealt with,” the minister first stated.