{"id":24710,"date":"2011-01-05T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2011-01-05T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:48:21","slug":"minister-shillingford-defends-wesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/minister-shillingford-defends-wesley\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Shillingford defends Wesley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24711\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24711\" title=\"gloria_shillingford\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gloria_shillingford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gloria_shillingford.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gloria_shillingford-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shillingford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The parliamentary representative for the Wesley constituency on Wednesday described her community as peaceful, in defense of claims of high incidents of crime in the area.<\/p>\n<p>While condemning a shooting incident that occurred in Wesley on Tuesday, Shillingford said there are cases of worst crimes in other communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI condemn any act of violence\u2026 and I\u2019m sorry to hear of some of the things happening lately in the constituency but there are so many other constituencies where even more hideous crimes are committed,\u201d Shillingford articulated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of what happened in the last few days, in the last few weeks were not committed by Wesley people and persons must understand that, nor Woodfordhill people,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Shillingford, who is also the minister responsible for community development, says many have given the crime matter a political twist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will join any agency of persons willing to work for peace but what I hate, what I abhor, is that when something happens, those whom you never heard of before, those who do not even know the communities, those who do not know the constituency, hurry to make statements that they are not even well-informed about,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parliamentary representative for the Wesley constituency on Wednesday described her community as peaceful, in defense of claims of high incidents of crime in the area. 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