Antigua & Barbuda To Implement Sex Offenders’ Registry
Antigua Observer:- Residents will soon be alerted when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood.
Attorney General and Public Safety Minister Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin made that disclosure in Parliament this week.
This news follows the establishment hereof a Sexual Offences Model Court last month.
Benjamin, the Parliamentary representative for St. John’s City South, issued a direct warning to the offenders.
“Leave the children alone. I am going to make sure that that is going to be on the list before the end of March of this year. We are going to make certain also to notify the neighborhoods into which you are going to reside,” he said during his contribution to the budget debate.
“Mothers in the community must know that this person is a sexual predator and special care must be taken to protect those young, vulnerable persons.”
Earlier this week, Minister of Sports, National Festivals, Culture and the Arts, Daryll Matthew called on the Attorney General to put legislation in place to prevent convicted and known sexual offenders from hanging around areas – mainly sporting facilities – where young people frequent daily.
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When will we realize this registry movement will never stop until every country in the world has one, as they are beholding to Uncle Sam for handouts. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás aka George Santayana
Truer words were never spoken. If societies truly learned from mistakes of the past, the world would be a utopia. But, alas, it is a $hith0le.
Having registery isn’t helping anyone not kids not parents not sibling parents arent even protecting kids from jacking up a credit card bill because they let them go on to different types of sites check article out on kids racking up parents charge cards trying to sue facebook
If they’re as broke as I think they are, their registry won’t last long. They’ll eventually see the cost of implementing and maintaining and realize they can’t keep doing it, especially when it produces and prevents ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I’ve been there on a cruise. It’s dirt poor and falling apart. I doubt if they have 10 cops on both islands. Their infrastructure is a wreck. After the last hurricane Antigua had to absorb all 1800 residents of Barbuda. It sounds to me like another politician trying to make himself seem tough and useful.
Most notably, this will be a PUBLIC registry. Most countries don’t have them. Antigua and Barbuda will join the 4-5 countries that do. Unclear, though, whether it will include all the offenses that Florida includes.
Cross two off of the list.