Members of the PIAA state champion 1996 Lower Merion High School boys’ basketball team, inducted into the Lower Merion Basketball Hall of Fame between games at the 15th Annual Kobe Bryant Classic Dec. 9, reflected on what this honor meant to them.
Police and citizens need to work hand-in-hand to prevent crime in communities. This was underscored by former Deputy Commissioner of the Barbados Police Service…
Child rights advocate Marsha Hinds-Myrie is convinced that Government has successfully transferred the problems plaguing the Government Industrial School (GIS) from the Barrows building in St Lucy to the newly-renovated facility at Dodds, St Philip.Hinds-Myrie , the Co-Director of the child advocacy organisation Operation Safe Space (OSS), has insisted that although the two female wards were moved to join their male counterparts at Dodds, there has been no change to the personnel working with the residents.“Different location, same operation. We understand that although one of the recommendations coming out of the Williams report was that the staff should be removed and replaced, we are hearing that the staff remains at the institution. There seems to be some complication with securing transfers for them so that new and suitable staff can be brought to the institution. And there is a way in which obviously, if you transfer the staff, you also transfer the problems,”Hinds-Myrie
Police and citizens need to work hand-in-hand to prevent crime in communities.This was underscored by former Deputy Commissioner of the Barbados Police Service, Oral Williams, during his recent address at the opening ceremony of the Regional Security System’s (RSS) International Leadership and Management Course, for senior police officers from across RSS Member States.Williams stressed the importance of retaining public support in crime prevention, and noted that there was an existing contract between the constabulary and the citizenry, permitting police to act on the behalf of the community in the fight to maintain law and order.
A call is being made for the speedy enacting of laws to protect juveniles in Barbados.
Speaking in reference to the wards of GIS at the time, the pending Child Justice Legislation Act if laid will be to the benefit of the island's young citizens.