BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – SOMETIMES WE JUST do not want to accept some of the unsavoury things happening in our society. We would rather pretend that the situation does not exist. Unfortunately, ignoring the problems will not make the problem disappear.
Such is the case with the apparent growing incidence of violent confrontation among some of our secondary school children.
Police have had to be called in on a number of occasions recently following a flare-up in violence among students involving knives and pieces of metal. Some have resulted in injuries requiring treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and in cases before the law courts
