Squatting is hardly a new phenomenon across Jamaica, but National Security minister Robert ‘Bobby’ Montague has devised a five-pillar crime strategy, which he says includes destroying squatter settlements that are frustratingly contributing to the crime rate by harbouring criminal elements. “It will take time, it will take patience, and it will take understanding,” he recently told an interviewer. “It is going to mean that we are going to upset some people, and that we are going to step on some toes. But if you want an omelette, you have to break an egg.”
UWI Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles on Thursday gave a rousing speech, as he addressed the 2016 graduating class of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). “You are now faced with the extraordinary responsibility to rebuild a broken Caribbean economy, as the infrastructure on which we must survive. This region needs to generate more wealth and promote its equitable distribution,” he told the grads. “We need to produce a class of entrepreneurs and innovators who will drive the competitiveness of our economies, ensure their technological advancement and make provision for social and cultural services that are part of an advancing civilization. These are your obligations to the future.”
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