I am certain that this stern warning will do the trick. Criminals are sure to turn over a new leaf now. After all, lip service has worked so well in the past. Please give us something concrete with actual follow up.

The comments here are sickening and highlight a great ill within this country. I implore you to tour some of the classroom facilities, especially in the Family Islands. Broken furniture, deplorable restrooms, as well as mold.
The teachers and the BUT are fighting for better conditions for educators as well as students. Please keep your hateful rhetoric in your minds, and don't spew it for the world to see.
Heaven forbid that teachers allow themselves and students to become sick in the classroom. Then everyone would be screaming as to why the teachers did not speak up.
Please visit the public schools around the country. It is hard to even get some parents out to PTA meetings, so imagine parents wanting to view the place, where there children spend so much of their waking moments.
Feel free to respond with your vile and malicious answers.
Government build schools but rarely maintain them. I pray many of you on this forum actually go into the schools and volunteer to read a book or find out if there is anything you can help with.
It is so easy to be mean when you are anonymously sitting behind an electronic device.

I found it to be quite off putting, when Ministers of Education and others, would say we need to pay teachers more to attract men. So it is alright for women to make that salary, but if men are needed then increase it? It is a blatant slap in the face to female teachers. Just increase the pay without sounding like misogynistic buffoons. Inequality and gender bias at its finest, alive and thriving here.

Ironically if you catch us driving in the States, we stop at every sign. We obey the laws away but when we return we are lawless.

My point exactly!

How about amending the bill to charge persons for murder when they hit and kill a pedestrian? Especially those that leave the scene. You kill someone with a car, and only have to pay a fine? That is pure foolishness.

Just be prepared for a brain drain as professionals head for greener pastures. Educated professionals that love this country will not have to settle for subpar wages and unhealthy working environments. Treat the people that take care of everyone else with respect.

I always wondered why we don't do these kinds of things at night. I guess we do not have the proper lighting in place for this. I noticed abroad the other day, that a lot of the road work, take place after hours with sufficient signage in place strategically warning of the work ahead.

I am still stuck on the statement that the police must come to him. I guess he felt he did his part already. There seems to be a pandemic of persons being killed by police officers. Yes crime is rampant, and if someone fires on a police officer, the officer should be able to defend him/herself.
With that being said, police have to ensure that they had just cause to shoot. I cannot imagine the need to put so many bullets in someone. At the end of the day, we have to ensure that our officers are in peak physical and mental condition, are properly trained, and retrained every so often. Our officers also need to have bullet proof vests and nowadays bodycams.
I hope every time an officer fires his or her gun, there is an investigation. You can disagree as much as you want, but we need to better police our police officers. They risk their lives and I applaud them, but they are not above the law and are not exempt from being accountable for their actions.

We are lax because it has not hit close to home yet. I agree we need to have a sex offender registry. I live right next to a man that went to jail for sexual assault on a minor. I make sure to point him out to my child. I am a helicopter parent and I am not afraid to admit it.I have also seen him walk through the fair grounds when a school was hosting their fair.
We need stricter penalties and sex offender registry just to name a few. These people should not be allowed near a school, playgrounds or minors.