Senator Lisa Cummins has expressed concern with the manner in which some Barbadians treat to praedial larceny.During debate on the Protection of Agricultural Products Bill, 2022, in the Senate today, Senator Cummins said she was alarmed that persons were defending “small farmers” who stole crops.“We don’t want to see people hurt or we don’t want to see people punished, that is the nature of Barbadian society a lot of times, but I have seen a conversation evolving on social media which I find troubling.“So a farmer, who is a small man like you in some instances, but you go in a man’s lot and you take what is not yours and somebody out there is saying, ‘but how you expect the man to live?’“ Would somebody say, ‘but how you expect the man to live’ if you go on Broad Street and take something that is not yours?” Senator Cummins, who is also the Minister of Tourism and International Transport questioned.
