The new crime plan formulated by National Security Minister Jack Warner will include guidelines dictating how people dress in public. Warner said social measures were going to be enforced to curb indiscipline among young people. He added: "These indisciplined guys are wearing their pants on their kneecaps and below their bottom and it is causing children to do that. "It is not tolerated in modern societies today... in parts of the US, in St Lucia, in Grenada.
"All these areas had laws passed against this and if you have to pass laws to tell people how to dress, how to bathe, how to comb their hair... we have to do it. "I find these people have forgotten that these are values that have transcended over time and this is what we have come to take for granted. "Right now the bar has been lowered. We gone too low. We have to raise the bar again," Warner said.
Meanwhile, his new crime plan, which has been completed, is yet to reach Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. And this may further delay the announcement of the long-awaited anti-crime measures, which Warner hinted may come after the 2012/2013 budget presentation on October 1.
In an interview with the T&T Guardian yesterday, he said owing to his heavy workload, he had been unable to meet with Persad-Bissessar to discuss the new plan as promised. However, he said the PM should get it by Monday. He said: "It is finished. I have been a bit deficient because I had planned to meet with the Prime Minister last week but I had a lot of work to do and I could not finetune it. That is being done now and she will get it on Monday."