By KHRISNA VIRGIL
Tribune Staff Reporter
kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
PRIME Minister Perry Christie yesterday suggested that the country had experienced a scourge of crime because successive governments failed to put financial resources into assisting students who struggle with behavioural challenges.
Mr Christie said it was his intention in the next budget cycle to appropriate funding to assess troubled youth to curb the occurrence of school dropouts that are illiterate.
He made the comments during the official opening of the Marjorie Davis Institute for Special Education at the former grounds of Our Lady’s Catholic School on Deveaux Street. It cost the government $2.2m to open the new special needs facility.
“I would want to have in place by the time I go to budget,” Mr Christie said, “a policy that we will promulgate what will be the result of reviewing children with behavioural problems in our schools who have traditionally been sent to places like Urban Renewal 2.0 (and) the church.
“I want to recalibrate and to dedicate the resources to children, who for difficulties that are confronting our system, are allowed to drop out incapable of reading and writing.
“There are children who for whatever reason who may have fallen through the cracks.
“There is now no circumstance why we should have a system that would allow children to drop out incapable of reading or writing when we can dedicate resources. How ever long it takes and even mandated by law because they are the people who because of insecurities brought on by their inability to measure up go and commit violence go and commit crime the resources of this country.”
This comes after Leslie Miller, Tall Pines MP criticised his own colleagues saying on election day many of them will be surprised to learn that they were voted out of office because they did not take a stand on crime in the country.
He also said the Bahamas should abandon the London based Privy Council and move to ensure that capital punishment is carried out.
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic 9 years ago
The behavioural changes needed are less likely to come about as a result of our youth seeing the way in which Christie, his cronies and the PLP party have become very cozy with the pocket books of the racketeering mobsters behind the 'illegal' online gaming activities, which activities Christie and his PLP government have sought to make 'legal' notwithstanding the wishes of the Bahamian people as expressed in a duly held referendum. Mr. Christie, you really need to make much more of an effort to set a good example for our youth.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 12 months ago
I'm hearing that minimum wage businesses are having problems with employees spinning all day and coming to work begging for money. Hope they know what they started
JessicaBarden 8 years, 12 months ago
Behavioural challenge could be the biggest challenge for government. Teachers of this country already playing their role for it as I http://www.writingbunch.co.uk/buy-an-...">buy custom essay | Writing Bunch to teach my pupils behaviour changing.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 12 months ago
Hope they know what "promulgate" means. Does he do that so people won't think he's dumb?
SP 8 years, 12 months ago
......................... Who Told Big Dumb Jackass # 2 This Stupidness? ................................
PRIME Minister Perry Christie making statements and committing funds again without any empirical evidence or proof of research.
1) Crime is firstly a direct result of unemployment.
2) Bahamas unemployment mainly caused by government using work permits as a source of income. i.e. FNM sold $40M in work permits. At an average cost of $1,500.00ea divided by $40M = 26,666.66 non essential blue collar workers displacing Bahamians in the job market.
If these 26,666.66 work permits were cancelled today, unemployment would IMMEDIATELY return to sustainable levels.
3) Add 40,000 undocumented illegal Haitian immigrants assiduously undermining Bahamians by working for below average wages and we arrive at the reason of the current unemployment disaster
4) The Relationship Between Crime Rate, Unemployment...Empirical evidence link below:
https://ideas.repec.org/a/ssm/journl/...">https://ideas.repec.org/a/ssm/journl/...
Ergo - Solution to crime is painfully obvious. However...Jackass Does, As Jackass is.
duppyVAT 8 years, 12 months ago
A child's predeliction to criminality begins in its pre-K years at home ............... and poverty and broken homes. This is not directly related to the quality of education provided by the government schools .............. there are criminals in Fox Hill who were very good (and private school) students as well.
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