The former national security minister must be thanking his lucky stars that he does not have the responsibility for fixing the island's crime problem.

However, that does not mean he is not concerned about it so when he calls on the word of God, he starts at the beginning and remembers the words of his favourite passage of scripture outlining the testimony of John the Baptist: John 1, verse 1.

The Kings James Version says: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.