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Posted: Tuesday 28 November, 2017 at 9:16 AM

NIA to implement new measures following school fire

Hon. Vance Amory
By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com

    CHARLESTOWN, Nevis - FOLLOWING Saturday night’s (Nov. 25) fire that damaged a section of the Charlestown Secondary School (CSS), the Premier’s Ministry will soon be implementing new measures to guard against  a reoccurrence. 

     

    According to reports, person or persons unknown to the public had set fire to one of the classrooms at the learning institution shortly after 9:00 p.m.

    Upon seeing the blaze, citizens and residents called the fire service, which responded promptly and mitigated any further damage.

    Nevis’Premier, Hon. Vance Amory, in a speech yesterday (Nov. 27) stated that it is a “very sad and a very serious situation that anyone, no matter how depraved, would wish to destroy any part of a public building such as the Charlestown Secondary School, a physical institution of learning which has served so many and has been the premier secondary school in Nevis for more than half a century”.

    The Premier explained that after government officials on the island were out observing and interacting with law enforcement officials and the fire service, they held a brief meeting “to discuss what could have gone wrong to cause someone to set fire to that classroom”.

    Coming out of those discussions, they recognized that there have been a number of delinquent and “unruly students who need[ed] to be taken under very serious control”.

    “I have, in my discussions with Permanent Secretary Mr. Daniel in the Premier’s Ministry, Permanent Secretary of Education Mr. Barrett and the Principal of the Charlestown Secondary School Mr. Juan Williams, discussed a number of strategies which will have to be implemented to ensure that we do not have a recurrence.

    “One such is to increase and improve the lighting for security purposes. Secondly, install Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras for monitoring the activity on the premises. Thirdly, getting the security guards of the school, who work there during the course of the day, to more rigorously assist the principal, to ensure that the children are kept under strict control and that they would assist the principal whenever they are called upon,” Premier Amory said.

    Further, the Nevis Island Administration has decided that it would also have physical security officers at the school during the evening.

    “We have also discussed a number of other issues or strategies which I will not here divulge, because they are to do with how do we deal with delinquent persons - persons who are loitering on the premises and persons who we believe are engaged in illegal activity.”

    Premier Amory categorically stated that the public would see changes in the way the CSS is managed, because he is “really very disturbed that anyone, no matter how depraved, no matter how deranged, should want to do that”.

    “My fellow citizens, I am, as I said, very concerned. It does appear as if we have developed a culture of anti-social behaviour, disregard for law and order, and this cannot be good for our small country.

    “This act on Saturday night is one which has to be condemned by everybody, and I have instructed the police to undertake very strict investigations and to bring anyone who is culpable to justice as quickly as possible,” the Premier said.
     
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