ST. JOHN’S Antigua, CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the difficulty of youth violence, particularly throughout festive events, have to be “addressed with nice urgency” after a young person was hospitalized in essential situation after he was allegedly stabbed in the course of the annual Boxing Day Road Jam.
In a press release posted on his Fb web page, Browne stated that the violence must be “addressed with nice urgency earlier than Labour Day and Carnival Day 2024, as a matter of truth each road occasion from right here onward”.
Media studies stated that {the teenager} is hospitalized on the Sir Lester Chook Medical Middle and that in the course of the occasion, younger males, allegedly between the ages of 11 and 14 years, had been seen passing via with a dagger and a knife.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne
The studies stated they had been searching for somebody and that the annual road jam ended prematurely.
In his assertion, Prime Minister Browne stated youth violence is changing into a essential downside right here and within the broader Caribbean area.
“Pressing and sustained interventions are required by all stakeholders, beginning with dad and mom. We have to increase better-cultured kids who’re hardworking, empathetic, disciplined, and never oriented to make use of violence to resolve conflicts.”
Browne warned that the difficulty threatens to undermine the developmental features and attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs), requiring an all-of-society intervention.
“It requires the help and interventions of oldsters, lecturers, policymakers, church leaders, and the broader group to resolve the difficulty successfully. Blaming anybody group of stakeholders is like kicking the can down the street,” Browne stated, including, “Let’s take collective duty in nurturing a softer, extra cultured, and productive society.”
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