HAITIANS FACE Combat root causes of gun violence
DESPAIR
ing earthquake in mid-August. Bahamian
Labor and Immigration Minister, Keith
Bell and Minister of Security, Wayne Munroe
also issued a joint statement vowing
that the cabinet will take action to stem
the flow of migrants to The Bahamas.
“The number one priority of the government
is to defend the territorial sovereignty
of The Commonwealth of The
Bahamas while ensuring that the Bahamian
people are protected. To this end,
no resources will be spared as all involved
agencies work towards addressing this
situation. In the face of unprecedented
levels of Haitian migrant activity that
has inundated countries throughout the
region, the government has taken decisive
action to scale up operations. These measures
have resulted in the interception of
migrant vessels in the southern waters of
The Bahamas, preventing passage into the
central Bahamas near New Providence,
where they were typically intercepted in
past years. The routes to New Providence
and other islands have effectively been cordoned
off,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, Commodore Raymond
King of the defense force said the US coast
guard is also assisting with monitoring
the high seas for people in not so safe vessels.
Air wing planes are also conducting
overflights, while the Cubans and intelligence
Caribbean L 14 ife, OCTOBER 8-14, 2021
officials in the neighboring Turks
and Caicos Islands are also cooperating to
monitor the situation.
“We have our intelligence sources. We
are monitoring the movement and we have
our vessels strategically positioned. We
maintained a layered, strategic approach
in addition to the blockade that is off the
southern Bahamas. We also maintain a
blockade here in the central Bahamas. In
the event the southern border is breached,
it will be extremely difficult for any vessel
to reach New Providence,” (in the north
and east) King also said.
The United Nations recently made an
appeal for nations not to repatriate Haitians
without humanitarian hearings and
proper assessments of their situation, but
local officials maintain that the country
is already facing hardships linked to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
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members of the Fiorentino Plaza Tenant
Association, Man Up! Inc. Founder
A.T. Mitchell, and Community Capacity
Development Executive Director
K Bain.
Pennington was one of three young
people shot outside NYCHA developments
in Brooklyn within a six-day
span.
On Friday afternoon, a 16-year-old
girl, Kyla-Simone Sobers-Batties, was
shot in the head outside Gowanus
Houses, and taken to the hospital in
critical condition.
Early Sunday morning, a 22-yearold
man was fatally shot in the lobby of
Albany Houses in Crown Heights.
During the press conference, Adams,
the Democratic Party nominee for
Mayor of New York City, emphasized
the point that disinvestment in public
housing and broader neglect by all levels
of government lead to disorder.
He highlighted, as an example,
the fact that the scaffolding around
Fiorentino Plaza has been up for years,
which has led to quality-of-life issues
for residents.
“Our city, state and federal governments
have failed NYCHA residents for
too long,” Adams said. “That failure
has led to the current public health
and safety crisis we’re seeing.
“It is completely unacceptable that
three young people have been shot —
two fatally — in a six-day span outside
NYCHA facilities,” he added. “Our government’s
neglect for public housing
is literally costing lives.”
Adams said he has “a clear plan to
reduce gun violence by building up
our entire ecosystem of public safety
while making proactive, upstream
investments in NYCHA.
“I thank my colleagues in government,
violence interrupters and
NYCHA residents for standing with
me,” he said.
Adams called for a number of steps
to end the cycle of disinvestment and
disorder: Address the root causes of
gun violence; build a Joint Guns and
Gangs Task Force to coordinate local,
state, and federal law enforcement
activity; invest in precision policing;
rebuild our plainclothes anti-crime
unit as an anti-gun unit; and crack
down on illegal gun trafficking, focusing
on handguns.
Other steps include: Fully fund
THE City’s Crisis Management System;
Push for more proactive investments
in NYCHA; push the city and
state to commit funding to urgentlyneeded
capital repairs; promote the
sale of NYCHA’s air rights through the
land use process, as Adams did in his
Gowanus rezoning recommendation;
and pass the federal infrastructure bill
and the Build Back Better plan at the
federal level.
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