00:00I taught for seven years and what I saw was a child that could have easily been a student of
00:06mine. The age she was at, fifth form student, he should be preparing for examination,
00:13whole life in front of him, potential not yet birthed. So that's just all just killed in a
00:22moment, shut down, stifled, never to be heard again and to be good,
00:31starting to lose because we lose part of our future productive sector.
00:35Mr. Augustine said he received news of the murder while he was in church.
00:41I couldn't think about anything else in the past I was seeing because I'm wondering how this young
00:46got involved and then on the top of that by the time I got home I'm seeing videos
00:54that purport to show the young man brandishing guns and throwing up gangs, signs and so on,
01:02which says to me that we have a problem. Mr. Augustine said despite a free education,
01:08some youths are still turning to crime and the gang culture.
01:12But it's an opportunity for me to say quite frankly that here we have a young man for whom
01:18we provide free education, free transportation, free meals, free teaching, free access to the
01:27examinations. In other Caribbean territories you have to pay for their CSEs, that is free.
01:33We provide free books, we provide free extracurricular activities, we provide free
01:39everything, free everything and still a life of crime got to this young man.
01:48Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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