REAL NEWS: The police are probing an alleged electronic crime which was committed against a teenager who has reportedly received threats via his Instagram account.
Allegations are that the mother of the 15-year-old Clare Hall Secondary School student reported to the police that on April 17 her son received several messages via Instagram from another Instagram account.
That person, using a pseudonym, threatened to chop up the 15-year-old boy.
The police have reportedly received certain information from the teen which they are using to assist with the investigations.
The incidences of youth violence have been a cause for concern with a number of persons and groups, including teachers calling for the government to pay urgent care to the persistent problem.
Meanwhile, it was just on Wednesday (April 19) that the Cabinet during its weekly sitting invited a former colonel of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF) to address it on reducing youth violence across Antigua and Barbuda.
The former soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Ivor Walker, wrote a dissertation on the subject 17 years ago – in 2005.
Reportedly, his proposal was essentially to create a voluntary National Service Corps comprising youth, particularly troubled youth between the ages of 15 to 21 years, who would become members of the National Youth Service and would be taught by ABDF personnel whose objective would be to help reform them.
The Cabinet has reportedly asked that Colonel Walker re-formulate the thesis to match the evolving challenge being faced by parents, teachers and schools.
It was noted that the Office of the Attorney General would, in the meantime, draft legislation to match the objective.
However, government spokesperson Lionel “Max” Hurst says that the programme will be voluntary unless mandated by a court of law.
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In every school right now especially the secondary them they need to put the real ruffian soldiers with the security at the schools. It’s real hard to see u getting a phone call your child got chopped up r stabbed r even death by another youth. They don’t care so start to use enforcement on them.
Don’t heed the words of Baldwin “ASHE LIED” Spencer
“SHARPEN U CUTLISS BACK AND BELLY. CHAP DEM UP!!!”
We are surely going to find out who ordered the hits on Nigel Christian, Cornel Benjamin and others.
Another ignorant clown… dem pickney ya nar listen to the Honorable Baldwin Spencer matter of fact not even Gasclown Browne them a listen. Them a get the chop up vybes from ths dutty facking music outta jamaica that only tell thdm to KILL/MURDER CHAP UP SHOOT UP THEN DRUG/MOLLY UP. But them parents too busy a fete week after week and not take time with their bad seeds to guide and redirect them bad dutty behaviours. Lest we forget that Gasclown min go tump Asot in he face a couple months ago or you too hypocritical to call it out. Then again u righr he might tump u inna fu u mouth too 😂
Reading this article, the mother made the complain to the police. What concerns me, where is father of this 15 year boy who life is bring threatened?? Fathers get your teenager boys under control, mothers can’t do it alone. And vice versa, mothers please keep your teenager girls under control.
The main point of this story has to do with a child being threatened and his primary parent’s concern.
At what point did you find the need to bring up potentially absentee parents?
Fathers are too busy watering other women garden. They just water and go with no care about how their children grow. This is sad!
We need to look into the transfer of voters from city west to help steal the election . The video is out with the PM boasting on his fraudulent activities. He finally speak the truth..
My signature was Forged!
No one will not lose their jobs if they are not vaccinated!
Choski went on a vacation. Knowing what transpired
I received my doses of Moderna
Wealthy tourist from Africa will come to invest
Civil servants will receive their back pay.
So far that is one truth he told
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