Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says the time has come for a glob­al war on gangs.

Speak­ing on Thurs­day at the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil Sem­i­nar, he said glob­al bod­ies must come to­geth­er to tack­le the neg­a­tive im­pact of gangs on so­ci­eties.

“Once we ac­cept that the threats we face are transna­tion­al , then our re­sponse must be equal­i­ty tran­si­tion­al and we must em­brace greater se­cu­ri­ty co­or­di­na­tion and reci­procity, we need a glob­al con­sen­sus that will cre­ate a glob­al war on gangs .”

He said the gang prob­lems must be met with the sim­i­lar force as glob­al ter­ror­ism.

He said if Ja­maica is to solve the prob­lem with gangs it must deal with the guns com­ing in­to the coun­try.

Hol­ness be­lieves this can be done through glob­al co­op­er­a­tion.

“So they use mur­der to cre­ate this fear, that brings the cit­i­zens un­der their con­trol, be­cause they feel help­less as the state is un­able to pro­tect them. The longer that the state The longer that the state is able to pro­tect so if we are go­ing to make a change in­Ja­maica as it re­lates to the lev­el of vi­o­lence and mur­der that we have, we are go­ing to have to make a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on guns com­ing in­to the coun­try and deal­ing with the crim­i­nal en­ter­pris­es that we eu­phemisti­cal­ly call gangs.”