15 Quotes by Peter Phillips


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    Since it is the state which is responsible for these social services, the government becomes discredited and a deep-seated attitude of alienation sets in. The entire society reaps the effect in the high incidence of crime, violence and anti-social behaviour

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    I want us to be assured when those local government elections are held that the KSAC will return to the control of the People's National Party, and that means that we will have to do some serious work in every division,

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    Narcotics trafficking has spawned a criminal elite that is fighting to control a budget the same size as that presented in Parliament by our minister of finance, but without any of the obligations for debt, employment and services, which is placed on the elected government.

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    We believe these individuals may help to facilitate the illegal drug trade through the establishment of transnational criminal networks. So, in essence deportations facilitate and worsen the problems linked to the trade in drugs and guns.

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    We will have people in the Caribbean following their respective teams from Asia, we will have Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Sri Lankans, Australians, Zimbabweans., ... And in many of the states there are conflicts which have taken on a terrorist form, and so there is always the potential that we in the Caribbean could become the stage on which other conflicts get acted out.

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    We in Jamaica have undertaken significant investments along with some of our international partners in strengthening our border control capacities, for example, ... We have installed computer-aided technologies to facilitate more effective tracking of persons moving across our borders. We are also working with our international and regional partners within Caricom to strengthen our intelligence gathering and our intelligence sharing capacities.

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    We do not want to lose James. He is our leading scorer and I hope he won't be going anywhere.

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