Students fight with machete and screwdriver at Basseterre High School

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – MEMBERS of the security forces were summoned on Wednesday (Jan. 21) to stop a fight between two male students of Basseterre High School (BHS).

Information reaching SKNVibes states that the fight broke out between the students while they were at the school’s Victoria Road campus. According to a teacher, they are known to be gang members and the weapons used in the altercation include a machete and a screwdriver. 

It was also learnt that the school’s administration contacted the Strike Force, which responded, broke up the fight and removed the students who were involved from the premises. 

When contacted, Sergeant Calvin Amory of the Police Press and Public Relations Office told this media house that a fight did take place at the school. He also confirmed that members of the Strike Force went to the school and apprehended the students.

Amory said too that the two boys were sternly warned by the officers and subsequently handed over to their parents. He however could not say if either of them suffered injuries or if any weapon was used during the confrontation. But an eyewitness claimed to have seen blood on the shirt of one student.

A BHS student revealed that the altercation was the continuation of a fight that occurred last year among several students including the two boys, while a teacher at the same institution disclosed that both staff and students were traumatised as a result of the incident.

SKNVibes contacted the school’s Vice-Principal, Carlene Henry-Morton, who revealed that an investigation into the incident had begun and further details would be released on its conclusion.

She also directed this media house to Chief Education Officer Patrick Welcome when asked for a comment.

Welcome was however unable to provide additional details but did confirm the use of weapons and the presence of Strike Force members on the BHS campus.