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Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy. - Jeff Mayers
Security both inside and outside a children s home has been increased following the escape of five boys in March – with two of them being murdered while on the run.
Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy said since the March 20 escape, the children’s home has increased security manpower, with increased internal and perimeter monitoring and increased the internal security infrastructure.
Webster-Roy, in response to e-mailed questions, said to further prevent such instances, the Children’s Authority under whose care the home falls, met with an inter-agency task force to discuss “alternative ways to exercise supervision and behaviour management of children in need of supervision (CHiNS).”
Port of Spain South MP Keith Scotland. File photo by Sureash Cholai
PORT OF SPAIN South MP Keith Scotland said he was willing to serve in any capacity on Parliament s Joint Select Committee (JSC) on National Security.
Newsday contacted him about the vacancy arising when the JSC s former chairman Fitzgerald Hinds was made Minister of National Security in a Cabinet reshuffle after the death of Energy Minister Franklin Khan.
The JSC members are Scotland, Randall Mitchell, Nigel de Freitas and Ayanna Webster-Roy (Government), Dr Roodal Moonilal and Jayanti Lutchmedial (Opposition) and Paul Richards (Independent), with a new government-named elected MP due to be appointed to replace Hinds.
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Webster-Roy: Murders of teenage boys show children must be protected from gangs
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Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy during a parliament committee meeting in November 2019. File photo -
The recent murders of two 15-year-old boys in Laventille were senseless and showed more must be done to protect children from being lured by gangs, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy said on Friday. This senseless killing must end. We must insist on a zero tolerance for gangs and violent culture being spread among our young and impressionable boys and girls, she said in her contribution to debate on the Anti Gang Bill 2021 in the House of Representatives. The Opposition boycotted the debate out of safety concerns as the Prime Minister has covid19.