GIS- NATIONAL HOUSING TO CONSTRUCT JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY AT CRABBS
National Housing and Urban Renewal Company has been instructed to construct a Juvenile Detention Facility at the Defence Force Base at Crabbs Peninsula.
The announcement was made on Saturday by Prime Minister Hon. Gaston Browne during the Browne and Browne Show on Pointe FM.
The head of Government says there will be a focus on agriculture and other areas of skills development, as part of a thrust toward rehabilitation of the juvenile offenders.
The move is among a raft of measures in response to an uptick in criminal activities.
Attorney General and Public Safety Minister, Hon. Sir Steadroy Benjamin told ABS News this week that minors have been implicated in over 85 per cent of violent crimes nationwide.
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The cart before the donkey virus spreads like Covid in the government.
In Neighbourhoods:
Green spaces to play.
Healthy food snack options. (Sell smoothies, vege quiches etc.)
Neighborhood activities e.g. Christmas block party (NO adult music fete!)
Sports clubs.
Tutoring centers.
Skills training.
Employment centres.
In Schools:
Enough desks, chairs.
Enough class/subject equipment.
Basic Life Skills training.
Useful projects.
Career information.
In Town:
Child-friendly activities, affordable to locals.
Arcades.
Bowling alleys.
Family Diners like the nook.
Skating rinks.
Affordable mini golf.
Family friendly karaoke restaurants.
NO adult-like fetes with adult music.
Family-friendly Plays.
Teen appropriate Concerts.
In the country:
Book clubs
Outdoor clubs
In the media:
Caribbean history.
Caribbean natural features.
Caribbean traditional cooking kids show.
Child/Teen appropriate Caribbean music.
Child-friendly Caribbean media apps
Do ANY adults in this country start businesses catering to children’s entertainment? Or do people just expect children to always be in books? go from school to after class to home to summer school classes?
Parents should do it? Where can a parent take their child in this country besides the beach once in a blue moon?
Every business in this country focuses on tourists, charging exorbitant prices, trying to get the white man’s dollar.
NO ONE invests in the local community’s needs, least of all the children. Yet people expect that happy well-behaved children will magically be produced…
I agree with a dedicated juvenile facility that can hopefully rehabilitate young people that have gone astray. But, I look forward to the day when people will wake up and start providing a better day to day environment for the children in all aspects of society. Not just the government, but each citizen should ask themselves how can I start something useful to improve family life, community life, children’s lives in this country…
@Things Children need…
…habits become Norms!
…norms become A Way Of Life
…a way of life, defines A Culture
…a culture defines A People!
The positive things which you mentioned are the #dynamics which Communities require to build strong positive roots/footings to grow, be there anchor, nourisher and protector.
You’re like fallen tree in the heart of the Amazon Ecosystem.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’Ole Dutty Peg👣Garrat_Bastard
Vere C. Edwards
Stop wasting tax payers money and send the little suckers to jail. Expand the prison if you so want to waste our money or just start digging their graves in the new cemetery.
All these additional measures being put in place thts definitely gonna be costly over time especially on us the taxpayers..
When you already have a Youth Intervention Facility being ran by the police, put more officers nd resources there to combat these juveniles.. Utilize nd maximize what’s already in place or shut it down if it serves no purpose..
It is amazing to me how the majority of the electors in the country are so foolish.
This ‘juvenile detention facility’, how many years ago was it to have been built again?
Which administration should have built it?
And you all still accept the b***s**t they talk?
Shaking my damn head.
What is the latest with the cemetary project on Factory Road?