Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has given the assurance that the Barbados Police Service will get whatever it needs to bring firearms cases before the courts in a timely manner.

“Whatever the police need to be able to bring the case before the judge in the shortest possible time and certainly not exceeding three months, but preferably four to six weeks, they will be given, because everybody in this country must know that if you have a gun and you are caught with it, you will pay the price and quickly so,”she told the House of Assembly yesterday during debate on the Supreme Court Of Judicature (Amendment) Bill, 2026.

She said while penalties for firearm offences had already been increased, what was needed, concomitant with passage of the legislation before the House, was “a clear recognition by the police of what is necessary to present a case before the court, in the shortest possible time”.