Chief Minister and Minister of Tourism, Mr Hubert Hughes, has called on young men in Anguilla, engaged in gun violence, to drop their firearms and help to preserve the island which is being marketed as Tranquillity Wrapped Blue.
He made the call at a public meeting on Tuesday night while reviewing his government’s four years in office so far. “I grieve when I see young men in wheelchairs because of a bullet… It hurts me – and I know how much it hurts mothers and fathers who see their young son crippled because of a bullet.
“I said to the young people in Blowing Point, just a week ago, I want you in Blowing Point to set an example and make sure that you don’t retaliate. There must be no revenge killing. You don’t retaliate because one of you was gunned down. I want you to drop the guns.”
Mr Hughes pleaded that there was a need for Anguilla to return to what it once was: an island that was admired around the world for being clean.
