The spokesman for the business community has called on law enforcement authorities to go after importers of illegal guns, regardless of who and where in society they are, as she expressed the group’s concern about the recent gunplay in the country.President of the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) Trisha Tannis has also urged Government to make amendments to the Bail Act to prevent people on murder charges from easily posting bail.Sharing business’ concern about a spike in gun-related crime that included five killings last week, Tannis said the time had come to hold accountable all those responsible for bringing illegal firearms into the island.“As a country, they have told us that we have invested in scanners at ports of entry. It is difficult to think that in an island of 166 square miles that we [don’t] have intelligence that tells us where the issues are, and to our minds the only issue we have is one of accountability.
