{"id":9370,"date":"2016-02-24T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2016-02-24T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:15:27","slug":"criminal-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"CRIMINAL STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Richardson Dhalai<br \/>\nFebruary 24 2016 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,224426.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,224426.html\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/fullfront240216.png' width='150' height='190' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='TIM KEE MUST GO!' \/><\/a>CRIMINAL students are among the population of the Chaguanas North Secondary School and Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, yesterday pledged to have them removed.<\/p>\n<p>As a start, Garcia revealed that 24 students \u2014 identified as ring leaders in the delinquency that has plagued the school \u2014 are to be sent home with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Following a return visit to the school yesterday, this time along with Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon, Garcia told reporters, \u201cI have taken a decision, a definite decision, that I will not tolerate indiscipline and violence in our schools. My mantra is no school indiscipline, no violence in schools.\u201d Dillon also said the country may have to consider boot camps for delinquent students as Garcia said he will be looking at ways in which the students who are removed from the school could be reintegrated into the system.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nGarcia returned to the school yesterday following his presence there last Friday in response to the disclosure that some students, supported by criminal elements, were planning to stage a gun attack and even kill a teacher and other students.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister was in Tobago until Monday evening where he hosted the final sessions of the national consultation on education.<\/p>\n<p>In making the visit to the central school again yesterday, the Minister wanted to ensure the suggested ramping up of security was in place and working, and he also wanted to continue discussions with the Principal, teachers and other personnel on the way forward.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,224426.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richardson Dhalai February 24 2016 &#8211; newsday.co.tt CRIMINAL students are among the population of the Chaguanas North Secondary School and Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, yesterday pledged to have them removed. As a start, Garcia revealed that 24 students \u2014 identified as ring leaders in the delinquency that has plagued the school \u2014 are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CRIMINAL STUDENTS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,186,178,639,160,8],"tags":[1138,1136,1137,359],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-schools","category-security","category-violence","tag-anthony-garcia","tag-chaguanas-north-secondary-school","tag-minister-of-education","tag-newsday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9371,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}