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CARICOM Leaders Agree to Ban Certain Rifles amongst Civilians
#TrinidadandTobago, April 21, 2023 – Regional leaders have agreed to ban the use of assault weapons in the civilian populations of their respective nations.
Prime Minister Dr the Hon Keith Rowley made the announcement today while delivering closing remarks at the
Dr Rowley said CARICOM leaders also intend to write to the United States President and his administration for a “greater effort in preventing the manufacturers of these killing machines and projectiles from having the profit-making outcome that is killing our people and destroying our society. We want the guns and ammunition stopped.”
He added, “Today we are saying to the United States the same way we fought with you to prevent the powder (cocaine) from going up North to poison your community we want you to fight with us to prevent the guns and ammunition from coming into our territories.”
Prime Minister Rowley stated that ‘these little islands in the Caribbean cannot sustain for much longer the death rate and the economic destruction that this wanton use of arms and ammunition is wreaking on us.”
Office of the Prime Minister, Trinidad & Tobago