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Charles: Stuart Young is a hopeless failure
Posted On 21 Dec 2019
Despite assurances to the contrary by this inept and incompetent Rowley/Young/Faris administration, our borders remain porous leading to thousands of new arrivals and immeasurable strains on our social fabric.
Archbishop Jason Gordon yesterday confirmed, what we all suspected but had no proof of, that hundreds of Venezuelans are turning up daily on our shores overwhelming our ability to absorb and treat with them humanely.
Archbishop Gordon by enlightening us of our migrant predicament, now risks being deemed “unpatriotic” by this government trio.
Archbishop Gordon pleaded with Government to secure our borders “to slow the influx of Venezuelan migrants” as his Church was unable to cope with dramatic increases in demands placed on them.
“Some 1100 new Venezuelan are coming in for assistance each month and the church can only do so much” he advised.
“The numbers are escalating every week and the acceleration is unprecedented,” he warned.
The Catholic church through its Living Waters Community has spearheaded NGO efforts to assist Venezuelan migrants.
The UNC has always called for a Venezuelan migrant/refugee policy that first of all recognizes the limits of our absorptive capacity, is humane, based on international best practices and acknowledges our international treaty obligations. This policy must be backed up by a rigidly enforced border control mechanism.
But clueless Young/Rowley/Faris went ahead with their ill-conceived registration process. As far as the government is concerned there are less than 16,000 Venezuelans registered while everyone else suspects that Venezuelans residing here could be three to four times that number.
Added to a failed migrant policy and open borders is our out of control murder rates.
Today the murder rate stands at 514. Last year at this time it was 511. Under Edmund Dillon in 2017 it was 483 – 31 less than today under Young.
Dillon based on performance was a considerably better security minister than Stuart Young.
This year we allocated in our budget thousand times more on jails, prisoner transport, armored vehicles, a spy agency called the SSA, and guns and ammunition compared to minuscule expenditures on “Vision on Mission”, on cadets, scouts, 4 H clubs, Police Youth clubs, Servol and MYPATT.
