PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – UNLESS mistaken, I sense a general lack of any public response from national or regional women organisations, as well as from women cabinet ministers and women in the legal profession within our Caribbean Community on two very disturbing media reported cases involving the heinous, degrading crime of rape. One of the cases involve the courage of two white British women who have exposed themselves to the public as victims of rape while separately visiting Barbados. They subsequently became involved in a legal battle to win the freedom of the black Barbadian man they said was wrongfully charged and imprisoned for 18 months with separately raping them. Once victory was won in the court for the freedom of rape accused, Derick Crawford, the two women—Dr Rachel Turner and Diane Davies—were to further express outrage over the apparent closure by the Barbados Police Force and their failure to so far secure an interview with Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin. This is a development in progress.
