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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Schoolboy killed over girl (with CNC3 video)

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Stu­dent Mur­dered

An ar­gu­ment over a girl has left a Form Three stu­dent of the Wa­ter­loo Sec­ondary School dead af­ter he was stabbed sev­er­al times by a Form Five stu­dent.Re­nal­do Dixon, 14, of Bagna Trace, Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, died dur­ing emer­gency treat­ment at the Freeport Health Cen­tre af­ter he was stabbed three times and his wrist slit by a 16-year-old fel­low stu­dent.An­oth­er stu­dent was cut on the neck when he tried to part the fight.The sus­pect, a Form Five stu­dent, who was sup­posed to be writ­ing the Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) his­to­ry pa­per, has been de­tained.Po­lice al­so re­cov­ered the knife used in what they said was a pre­med­i­tat­ed at­tack.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Dixon and the girl were sit­ting on a bench around 10 am when the oth­er boy at­tacked him.Stu­dents said the boy was sup­posed to write the CSEC his­to­ry pa­per but did not show up for the ex­am.In­stead he wait­ed at the school un­til re­cess.School was dis­missed af­ter the in­ci­dent ex­cept for those who were writ­ing ex­ams. But Form Five stu­dents who re­mained be­hind said the sight of pools of blood along the cor­ri­dor haunt­ed them while they wrote the ex­ams."We are not afraid to come back to school but it was trau­ma­tis­ing to see how some­one so young could lose their life like that," one stu­dent said while leav­ing the Cara­pichaima school.He said there had been a stab­bing be­fore and the school had been giv­en met­al de­tec­tors but they had not been used for some time.

Ex­act­ly how a boy was able to en­ter the school with a knife was one of the ques­tions on the mind of Dixon's trau­ma­tised moth­er, 34-year-old Camille Taitt."I sent my child to school this morn­ing think­ing he was go­ing to come back home but he didn't come back home."He said: 'Mom­my, can I get pie to car­ry to school?' I took it out and gave it to him. He said: 'Well, Mom­my, lat­er,' and that was it," Taitt said while be­ing con­soled by a rel­a­tive.She said the school called af­ter 10 am but by the time she ar­rived at the health cen­tre he was al­ready dead.Taitt said the fa­tal blow was dealt to her son's shoul­der, which doc­tors mea­sured at four cen­time­tres wide.She said she did not know her son's at­tack­er nor did she know if he had any trou­ble at school.

How­ev­er, she said, her son and the girl were close friends."I know he had a friend but to be hon­est with you, I don't know if she was his girl­friend. I met her at school for a par­ents' day. We talked and I talked to her mom as well."If it was that the girl chose Re­nal­do over him, it will have a prob­lem. I can­not say be­cause he nev­er came home and com­plained to me."She said one of her biggest chal­lenges was to let her younger chil­dren know of his death."My chil­dren are by my broth­er. I haven't told them any­thing yet, ex­cept for the big one."The oth­er two don't know. They are sev­en and three years old. How am I go­ing to tell them their broth­er is not com­ing home?"She plead­ed with the Gov­ern­ment to re­in­state cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment in schools and called on par­ents to take an in­ter­est in their chil­dren's lives be­fore some­one else is mur­dered through school vi­o­lence."You can't pre­dict what they are go­ing to do but you can talk to them. I talk to my chil­dren every day. You can talk to them, let them know what is right and wrong. "Find out what is go­ing on with them, go to their schools, in­quire what is go­ing on with them be­cause some­thing had to lead him to this."

The Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry's com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­age­ment ad­vis­er Ali­cia Bus­by said in a re­lease the min­istry would be pro­vid­ing coun­selling for the school's staff and stu­dents as well as Dixon's par­ents.She said: "The min­istry's Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion has dis­patched a team and is co-or­di­nat­ing coun­selling for stu­dents, teach­ers and par­ents."The Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, on be­half of the min­istry, ex­press­es his sad­ness and heart­felt con­do­lences to the par­ents, fam­i­ly, class­mates, stu­dents, teach­ers, friends and oth­er loved ones. May God be with them at this time."


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