The theme for the event is “Citizen Security: Partnership for Safer Community”, which is also a part of a 90-day campaign against violence and crime in the nation.
The Citizen Security Secretariat of St. Kitts and Nevis has recently issued an official calendar of events outlining the conversations to be held in every community for October 2024. The event’s main objective is to encourage conversations and discussion on security concerns. These meetings will be held at various locations across the nation and are scheduled to start at 6:00 PM.
The theme for this event is “Citizen Security: Partnership for Safer Communities”, which is also a part of a 90-day campaign against violence and crime. The initiative reflects the opportunity to have discussions focusing on the day-to-day life of children.
“Community Conversations” have started with the first open session on Monday, October 7th, at the St. Peters Community Centre. The next session will be organized on Wednesday, October 9th, at Bronte Welsh Primary School.
The government of St Kitts and Nevis wants people to come forward and talk about crime and violence spreading in the country. It will help them find the root causes of these crimes, and they can take certain measures to address the problem.
Following up, the events will be continued on Tuesday, October 15th. The day is scheduled to have two meetings, first at Challengers and second at Half Way Tree. The next day, the discussions will be held at St. Paul’s Community Centre on Wednesday, October 16th.
Other such collective meetings that will take place are at Ottley’s Community Centre on Thursday, October 17th and at Old Road Community Centre on Tuesday, October 22nd.
In addition, a few sessions will held on Wednesday, October 23rd, with meetings scheduled at locations such as Saddlers Primary School, Parsons Community Centre,
Coming after this, the sessions will be conducted at Estridge Primary School and Tabernacle Community Centre on Thursday, October 24th.
The last week of October has events lined up on Tuesday, the 29th, at Pavillion, Newtowm and Cayon Community Centre. The second last session is set for October 30th at Fig Tree and Sandy Point Community Centre. The conversations will conclude on Thursday, October 31st, with the final event taking place in Molineux/Phillips.
In the last month, residents of St Kitts and Nevis have actively discussed and put forward different ideas and ways to stop gang activity and other violent cases.
The ESC Criminal Dynamics Study also shared that the rise of violence and the homicide rates in St Kitts and Nevis between the years 2000 and 2022 were most likely firearm-related killings.
Notably, this puts the spotlight on the availability of firearms in the country. If guns and firearms were not so easily obtainable by people, then both the pattern and rates of homicide wouldn’t be so high.
