KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) in a statement expressing outrage at the recent spate of murders in Jamaica said it wants  Minister of National Security Robert Montague replaced “with a capable and effective” individual.

The organisation said it notes that since the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration assumed office, crime has parachuted island wide yet, neither Prime Minister Andrew Holness nor Montague has made any attempt to address the nation. 

“In light of the fact that ten months has elapsed since the minister of national security has taken office, the PNPYO strongly believes that an effective and appropriate crime plan ought to have been offered to the people of Jamaica by now.

“With the rapid increase of violent crimes and crimes against women, the deafening silence from the minister of national security reflects his inability to properly pilot the ministry,” PNPYO argued.

The organisation urged Holness, on assigning a new security minister, to ensure that “… he/she immediately engages the acting commissioner of police in careful and strategic conversation, after which both parties should present to the nation a comprehensive crime plan to be executed in order to restore peace of mind to the Jamaican people”.