With Barbados four killings shy of its highest ever murder tally in a given year, and with six months still to go in 2019, Attorney General Dale Marshall has been told to quit the post by his predecessor.
Former Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, in calling for the resignation of his successor, has declared that Marshall is now learning that the job is more difficult than it appeared from the outside looking in.
In 2017, Marshall, who was the Opposition spokesperson on legal matters, called for Brathwaite to be relieved of duty following a wave of shootings, including brazen gunplay on Kadooment Day in which a man was killed and 22 others injured.
Marshall said then: “I think the time has come when the Prime Minister [Freundel Stuart] needs to relieve the Attorney General of the portfolio that he gave him to maintain the peace and stability of our country. He’s failed woefully.
“The Attorney General has failed us. He has failed the country. He’s failed, I’m sure, his constituents. And the time has come for the Prime Minister to relieve him of that responsibility since I’m sure that he would not resign.”
But with the tables now turned, the former AG is making the same demand.
Brathwaite told Barbados TODAY: “I
used to say to the present Attorney General that even though opposition politics is difficult, it doesn’t mean that you say things that are not true.
“If you go back to 2017, you would see that [Marshall’s] position was that I was doing such a poor job and my party was doing such a poor job that we should resign. Now, of course, we have an unprecedented level of murders in this country.”
Brathwaite, who served in the Freundel Stuart administration which was ousted from power in the May 2018 general election, argued that Marshall, by his own standard, has been a failure as the Government’s top legal advisor and should therefore vacate the position.
Said the former attorney general: “I think he should resign. Having taken the position that he did over the last couple of years in particular with respect to my job as Attorney General.
“Given his performance, in any serious Westminster system, no one should have to call on him to resign, he should just resign. He should say that I have failed and therefore I resign.”
The former AG expressed the view that Government has failed to comprehend that the murder-rate is merely a manifestation of a systemic problem and unless steps are taken to address the problem from the root, the vicious cycle will continue. Brathwaite was referring to plans for dealing with at-risk youth who he said are often neglected until they end up in the justice system.
Brathwaite declared: “They were so opposed to the [Democratic Labour Party administration] that they refused to see the challenges that we were having. I have always said that it is not an Attorney General’s problem to solve the crime in this country.
“It is not his alone. The problem actually begins at inception… These youths who are often fleeing abuse, are condemned as criminals before an attempt is made to help them.
“Unless we have a holistic approach to crime and criminal behaviour in this country, then pointing to criminal statistics does not help. So, we focus on the ones that commit crime, but we do not focus on the other challenges within society. We need to go back to basics”.
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Now you are crazy, former AG.
Worse ag bom ever had, telling somebody to tesign, hahaha… odiot at his best
The AG was saying similar things to him in Opposition and now its gotten worst. He’s right to tell him resign.
Guy Smiley needs to wipe that smile off his face and hand in his resignation to the PM promptly! The worst AG our country ever had!
Wunna dems need to stop doh. Go look for employment
What goes around comes around
Yes I agree with Adrail Braithwaite when sitting on the opposition Mr Marshall call for him to resign he had all the solutions and now under his watch we have 30 murders in six months never in the history of Barbados we had so much crime he is the worst Attorney General we ever had in this country he should step down and get a job advertising Colgate toothpaste and skinning his mouth like a clown he is very good at that He is haunted by the things he say in the past
He has a point unfortunately it has to come from someone who was just as inept in the position. Once again, can we borrow Gary from Trinidad?
“If you go back to 2017, you would see that [Marshall’s] position was that I was doing such a poor job and my party was doing such a poor job that we should resign.”
The whole bunch of you were doing “such a poor [overall] job” that the people resigned you into oblivion — 30-0. Not even sure if gun crime factored into the electorate’s decision to kicked wunna outta Office. Now you have become an extinct and irrelevant species on the political landscape.
These shootings are being caused by the same guns this clown (Brathwaite) and the crooked DLP allowed to enter the island unchecked during 10 years and 90 days that have created killing fields. It was a wicked and well-orchestrated plot to create mayhem in Barbados, while profiting from the sale of illegal guns (and drugs).
As a matter of fact, Brathwaite is quoted at saying that the gunshots heard in communities at night are “young men saluting each other on their birthday.” This is the same man that went AWOL during the Kadooment Day mass shootings when 23 people were shot at Spring Garden, citing that his cellphones needed charging.
No other AG in history has cheapened that Office like Brathwaite by his “after hours” activities that were on the lips of everyone. He should have resigned when, in a drunken state, he drove right through the intersection at Lower Greys and crashed into a car driven by a youngster, totaling it in the process.
The new Deputy Commissioner of Police who had good reason to rush to the scene of the accident should have slapped handcuffs on him, immediately following the stench of alcohol on his breath.
If you want this AG removed, you and Verla can move a no-confidence motion in the House against him next Tuesday. Parliament is the place to make your case for a sitting MP’s removal, not in a rum shop.
Go for it, Braffit! Or, is it that you cannot set foot in Parliament yard?
Resign! You should turn yourself into the Authorities. You done nothing about the problem of guns and now the AG got all this mess you leave behind to clean up. Lost cause!
You guys need to police the blocks. You need to legislate that there should be no congregating at these road blocks or elsewhere. The so-called roadblocks, if you have to have them, should be designed to make meeting uncomfortable! Abandoned properties should be destroyed and plots left vacant! Legislate for youth who are unemployed to compulsorily join a military outpost for training for up to five years so they can develop some kind of discipline and skills in life! Convert some empty buildings to social clubs that are made secured and monitored. Do something constructive and proactive, for Chrissakes!!
@ Carl Harpoon
You should of been in Prison still for the $30 Million invisible Landfill down Greenland, the Golden Shower up Silver Sands and all yuh so call Hussy fiascoes
Carl you still married ?????
Can’t understand how Taxpayers paying you to be an Ambassador and you working as a Propaganda Minister instead
Worst UN Ambassador ever
Worst Minister Of Health after Phillip Goddard
Most Cantankerous Minister ever
Jesus is Lord
“I think the time has come when the Prime
Minister Mia Motley needs to relieve the Attorney General of the portfolio that she gave him to maintain the peace and stability of our country. Dale Marshall has failed woefully.
“The Attorney General has failed us. He has failed the country. He’s failed, I’m sure, his constituents. And the time has come for the Prime Minister to relieve him of that responsibility since I’m sure that he would not resign.”
Poor Smiley aka Daley ain’t got a Clue
Daley still in Opposition, this time Opposing himself instead of saying he can’t manage the job
A useless Consultant on Crime getting a BIG Salary and offering Nothing in Return
An Invisible Attorney General
And BLP continue to make Mock Sport on Crime and Violence with Carl Harpoon as Cheer Leader
BLP should be a One Term Government
Like de ole people say.. “De pot calling de kettle black”… Smh.. This is typical “murder she wrote” by Angela Langsbury… Story does have you confused till de end…who you think is the perpetrator it isn’t… Wow
The Present AG are being ask to resign by the Former, while in opposition the Present AG was calling on the Former to resign, Those two friends will call each and make jokes concerning the(The Tic For Tac) Polictics too sweet
ALL THE FORMER A G. DID FOR 10 YRS WAS GIVE THE MURDERUS BAIL
AND REOFFEND AGAIN..AND AGAIN
Is this the same excuse for an Attorney General that moved the issuing of gun licences from the police to his Ministry. If it is him please ask him how many known CRIMINALS were issued with gun licences in the 8 years leading up to May 24th 2018.
why the former ag did not stop the guns from coming in through the port. clown like he. he ain know no cliffs he could go and jump off.
Some of these BLP supporters are poisonous and blind , this present ag and this government criticised every effort the former government made to improve everything , when the former government give the police certain powers to intimidate these gangsters they ask what is Barbados coming to that it is now a police state and people have no privacy. This present AG is one year in office and has 43 murders a glaring record.
All they did was mislead idiots to get power
Yes Elain , made mock sport at and criticised everything from in the 90s
Ain’t u lucky to talk. Put a plug in yo pie hole
them feel crime now start and come about we crime in 90s is that the bad boys turn hit men now to solve disputes and end up hurting people
this was is issue of the last 10 years bringing in guys through the port and also you DLP giving bail to drug men and criminals why why why
Thought Darwin Duck was to save the crime scene
NevalGreenidge l told youo this is not about politics l have friends who got killed and as for the charge that the former AG issued gun licences to criminals ,which of the guns that was used in these murders was a licenced firearm?
I am not advocating that Dale Marshall go because he is a BLP minister.Just like how Barbados changed the government when their policies weren’t working …well the same logic should apply to Mr Marshall’s situation.
And dont you find it passing strange that the guns that you are insinuating came in to the island when Adriel was AG are only being used now that we have a new political dispensation.?
Mr.Marshall’s job is to keep us safe, if you are satisfied that the country is safe well continue merrily and be critical of any citizen who decides that they will air a grievance.
THIS IS NOT TRUMP COUNTRY.
The AG will resign when all I’ wunna in jail for robbing this country and putting it in the worse socio-economic position in modern times. This former AG didn’t even understand the law. I attended a talk on the myriad case at UWI, and this former AG suggested that since he didn’t agree with the CCJ’s ruling, Barbados should be able to overturn said ruling. I’ve never been so ashamed for someone. An AG who didn’t even understand how the law works and what being a signatory to the highest court of the region meant. You and the other mistreats were embarrassments to intelligent, right thinking Barbadians. It was just the other day under the stress created by your government that people were dropping down dead, not from violence alone, but from the stress of the hopelessness created by the perceived thievery, and misallocation of funds that resettled in hardship for this country. You sorry excuses for Barbadians are NOT THE OPPOSITION. This strategy to remain in the news and thus on the minds of the people till next election is transparent af. Unfortunately it will backfire because we will remember all this rabbit that wunna continue to spew.
Well I never
ADRIEL BRATHWAITHE i would love to assified you but you already are, you were in that position and you assify it, and for ten years you were, was assifying the position now you all up in ppl grill talking crappy, you should tell the ppl how you and the others from the DLP assify this country, just another DLP mule, who just keep braying, i have no doubt that VERLA wrote your script
Shoulda done something about the guns getting into Barbados
Why are bajans so simple I will never know.
A gun is just a tool, same as a sword, but people will use both of them as Instruments of death, poison is also use as an instrument of death, rope and so can be a tall building, what did those guys use to kill those girls in that store? Fire, they use the same fuel we use to drive with and created the same fire we use to cook with, and turned it into an instrument of death.
Now tell me, how on God’s green earth can the A.G or anyone be able to stop a person who is set in their mind to kill someone, if ordinary items can be turned into Instruments of death?
It’s the characters of people that makes the difference, guns don’t kill people, people with bad intentions use instruments of death to kill other people, whether it be a knife, sword, gun, fire, poison, rope etc etc, the person has to have a mind to commit murder.
So there’s no magical solution to solve the crime problem.
Listen Mr Marshall had all the answers in opposition .He is in control now .He had an amnesty and it seems men bring in toy guns and and water guns .Men disrespecting him cause they gone on a rampage again since the amnesty where there was a lull.
His resignation changes the situation How? A solution must be found and I’m certain that it will be soon. I hope when it comes you don’t come back crying that the measures are too harsh.
no you cause you introduce law murders get bail so man know if shoots someone he be on bail in less than a week and we have people on bail killing people
For the sake of the country he should step aside.
Adriel Brathwaite who gave DAVID ESTWICK that LICENCE for that GUN that he TOOK TO PARLIAMENT to make MOCK SPORT of DALE MARSHALL while you and your colleagues sat back and skin wunna teet?
All them clueless on what to do, fighting crime is not easy job but PM and AG need some serious working actions and few law changing and set some examples
Do there have an emoji for laughing hard that people could hear
What nonesense!
THINGS DREAD, BECAUSE YOU VOTED RED!!!!
The eyes of the world are upon us. Action must be taken to protect the image and reputation of our country and loving people. MAM has placed all her eggs in the tourism basket and another travel advisory against Barbados will be equivalent to another downgrade. Another US advisory against us may result in the AG again showing arrogance and disrespect by telling the US to shut up and let him do what he is doing as he does not know what to do.
If only for optics AG Marshall must go. However we all know he has failed and needs to go, even the BLP yard fowls find is impossible to defend him by his actions resorts to their usual yardfowlism.
The BLP and DLP supporters must all come together and push for KERRIE as AG.
People like Neval and Carl Harper Liz Thompson have no credibility. The former AG has a valid point. The current AG blamed the DLP for crime which was lower than at present so logically the current AG should resign in accordance with his own standards. But the morning words and the evening words of this BLP Administration does not usually add up. Mia said the DLP should have no more than 13 ministers. Now she has double that amount and it is ok. The DLP help Neval when he was in trouble and he criticising them because he continues to sing for his supper. he is ungrateful.
I keep saying that Carl Liz Harper Thompson is a mad woman. Her two husbands aided by her cannot account respectively for $400,000 and $300,000 and she calling people crooked. She needs her head examining.
MIA MOTTLEY:
Addressing the issue of Gun violence
“….Good evening Barbados, about 48 hours ago our country and indeed our neighbors in the region, were shaken by an uncharacteristic display of senseless and lethal violence. An occurrence of such magnitude in any democratic country would elicit the announcement of concrete plans ensuring that Barbadians may go about their ordinary business without having to panic or be anxious. The only person who can provide resources for the Police and the Courts or to Social agencies, partner with community agencies, with civil society, or who can facilitate the passage of Legislation is the PRIME MINISTER.
Views and desires do not constitute a strategy nor does elegance of language substitute for clear define initiatives or resources being provided to the relevant people.”””
I WILL LEAVE THAT RIGHT THERE.
(what a difference moving from opposition to Govt. makes)
Dale Marshall can resign immediately, yes. But he will never every erase his accomplishment of being the ONLY Attorney General in Barbados, to have the murder rate, especially by guns, rise to 30, under his watch. Big mouth Dale can now take a bow. What a Ting!
Dale Marshall making Adriel Brathwaite look Real Real Good
Guy Smiley is a Waste
The Consultant on Crime is a Waste
BLP sounded so Good in Opposition now in Power is a Waste, no Ideas, just using DLP policies and modifying them
@Saga Boy
I didn’t know Carl was married to a man. I thought that was a business partnership to rip off the government. This is news to me.
I think it was dirty Harry who had said Carl liked women, not men. That is what I understood.
Fact: 30 – murders before the end of June.
A possibility: 90 – murders by the end of December.
WOW!!!!.
Dale doing a poor job..when in opposition he was very vocal…on tv looking all sombre and poker faced…I havent heard him latey…have you? He has gone quiet..the tuth is crime will always happen..but the blp supporters were clamouring with glee for the resignation of the former AG..fair enough..Dont they think it is only fair that since it has gotten worse they should asked the current AG to resign as well?
This nonsense about all the guns coming in during the last ten yrs is pure nonsense..just trying to deflect blame…apparently everything bad must be blamed on the last ten years…how silly can we get?
Please excuse me for hollering for Murdah! One former useless A-G ,asking for the resignation of the present A-G.
Oh yes Patty, these B-lind LP people believe that everything that went wrong, all the violence, the millions waste, the increase taxes, high cost of living, fuel increases, incompetent consultants and the list goes on. all of these things happen in the last 10 years.
The most thieving and wasting of $$$ went on during the 15 years the BLP was in power. It was not notice because of all the bowering $$ Arthur did during that time and said it was for a rainy day, but yet left $Billions in debt.
As far as the gun violence is concern; What are we to expect when the drug lords was invited to parliament to celebrate the BLP victory.
It amazes me that during those ten year all the blp supporters saw all the wrong..and yes some things went wrong….but do u blp supporters ever listen to yourselves..can we become so political that we beleive that one party is washed in the blood of the lamb? come on man..dont you all see how politicians cause us to fight each other..the truth is what is good for the goose is good for the gander…we cant in all sincerity squabble about crime last ten years, blame the then govt and now still blame them for what is happening now..that is downright disingenious and dishonest. ..the current govt said ..give me yuh vote and watch muh! well they got the vote..so dont they expect us to watch them?
Guy Smiley needs to go back to Sesame Street he and Partner George Jefferson
Guy Smiley would always be useless no wonder he is Invisible
At Johnny. It is a well known thing that Carl prefers girls like her. I have heard terrible things and them and she comes here calling people crooked and behaving like she is some moral authority. Too many of them are bad roll models
Can any of you all tell who is the BEST AG this country ever had?
Roger Parris you speak nothing but crap. The current AG was constantly calling on the former to resign and blaming him for the increase in murders. The former was always saying that there was no quick fix. Now he is presiding over twice the murders that occurred during during Braithwaite’s time. Why should he not be calling for Dale to resign? He gave the impression that he could do a better job. Is that not so?
@ Carl Harper for a person like you that have Four University degrees is living proof that been Educated does not means you have common Sense
You are now an Educated Political Prostitute with distinction and a Common Class Yard Duck, no shame whatsoever after building an Invisible landfill for $30 Million
Ms.Elizabeth Thompson holds four university degrees, among them a master’s degree in law from Robert Gordon University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Liverpool, both in the United Kingdom,
Now She in London making Mock Sport at the Taxpayers getting FREE Money
Correction Big Man. She is at the UN in NYC, getting a big salary approved by her buddy Mia as Minister of Finance. Liz also receives a fat pension check of almost $8,000 monthly, for the wasted time she spent as an MP during Owen Arthur’s reign. She is a shameless fierce BLP politician; an expert dramatists for the cause.
THANK YOU SAGA BOY, i needed that, you ae right to put me in my place, but you know the country still trying to recovery after a ten year drought, with him in the line up, but i respect your opinion and will stop talking crap from hmmm, when the other DLP PPL like you do, see you all DLP PPL would like to control BT like how you control CBC for ten years and three months,