In an at­tempt to com­bat ris­ing gang vi­o­lence in Cari­com, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, who is the re­gion­al body’s lead on crime and se­cu­ri­ty, says steps are be­ing tak­en to strength­en laws to now treat gun vi­o­lence as an act of ter­ror­ism.

Speak­ing at the clos­ing me­dia con­fer­ence for the 48th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment in Bar­ba­dos last evening, Dr Row­ley an­nounced, “We agreed that notwith­stand­ing so­cial con­sid­er­a­tions, we agreed that the chang­ing na­ture of crime is such that ac­tions and acts of vi­o­lence in the pub­lic space in cer­tain in­stances must now be re­gard­ed as acts of ter­ror­ism.”

The T&T Prime Min­is­ter sought to ex­plain the need for leg­isla­tive change, which he an­tic­i­pates will be draft­ed in the com­ing months.