Jack Warner has slammed the Manning administration for its continuing failure to effectively deal with crime noting that murders continue unabated, reaching 502 with a few days still to go in 2009.In a media statement Sunday, the Chaguanas West MP said the government displays its disdain for society by refusing to make permanent appointments to several key offices like the Commissioner of Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions.
He added that there appears to be a deliberate policy of keeping the police service short of basic crime-fighting resources and of facilitating the disintegration of the other elements of our justice system.
"This record high murder rate reinforces the sentiments of large sections of the population that if the PNM remains in power our twin-island nation and the citizenry are doomed.
"It reinforces that fact that the PNM should be removed and replaced by a more competent, caring and responsible government," he said.
Warner said this is another example of why the opposition forces must reunite "at all costs to bring about change, transformation and rehabilitation of our country."
He urged all opposition groupings and individuals to work for creating an Opposition unit in which the population can have confidence and which can enter government.
"It starts with the members of the UNC electing a government and a leader that can have the trust and confidence of the wider national community to take the party and the opposition into government," he said.
The UNC deputy leader expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the 500-plus persons murdered in 2009 and "the thousands of other lives snuffed out in the past nine years of Patrick Manning's watch. I hope and pray that together we can and will have a brighter 2010. With Change, we can have Hope."
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