Antigua & Barbuda To Implement Sex Offenders’ Registry

[stluciatimes.com – 2/2/19]

Antigua Observer:- Residents will soon be alerted when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood.

Attorney General and Public Safety Minister Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin made that disclosure in Parliament this week.

Once convicted, the names of all sexual offenders will be placed on a public registry.

This news follows the establishment hereof a Sexual Offences Model Court last month.

Benjamin, the Parliamentary representative for St. John’s City South, issued a direct warning to the offenders.

“Leave the children alone. I am going to make sure that that is going to be on the list before the end of March of this year. We are going to make certain also to notify the neighborhoods into which you are going to reside,” he said during his contribution to the budget debate.

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The cancer continues to spread. Too many humans are blind, foolish, and barbaric.

Uneducated, misguided and not fit for their roles in public service.

why don’t they make prostitutes register? so it’s easier for the people to know exactly were to find them? after all, gas gets expensive driving around/looking/shopping/hotels, guys get penalized for situations related to certain situations from waaaaaaay back, girls,, well,, get cited/ticketed, don’t do it again, but yet how many times has a single prostitute got caught? way beyond a serial repeat offender.

Wow… I had to google where this place is… I never been nor would I care.. From some quick wiki I learned that one island got wiped out by a storm and both populations are now living on a single island… uummmm.. this sounds ripe to being a very quick petra dish of craziness.. I’m sure its going to be used to suppress one population…