An­na-Lisa Paul

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has come out in full sup­port of De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge’s con­tro­ver­sial ad­vice to “shoot first and ex­plain lat­er,” as the Gov­ern­ment push­es its pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion.

Speak­ing to re­porters at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, Alexan­der de­fend­ed the prin­ci­ple of the leg­is­la­tion, stress­ing that cir­cum­stances must al­ways be con­sid­ered. He il­lus­trat­ed two sce­nar­ios: an armed sus­pect flee­ing af­ter a rob­bery and a woman be­ing vi­o­lent­ly as­sault­ed dur­ing a home in­va­sion.