Camille Clarke

Two stu­dents from a pres­ti­gious male school in West­ern Trinidad have been sus­pend­ed af­ter they were record­ed in a video per­form­ing sex acts on the school's com­pound.

The 13-minute video was record­ed by a cell­phone and post­ed on Face­book. Site fans said it was pulled two days af­ter it was post­ed. The school's prin­ci­pal yes­ter­day con­firmed the stu­dents have been sus­pend­ed. "We have to fol­low the rules of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and it has been dealt with ac­cord­ing to the min­istry's rules," he said in a tele­phone in­ter­view.

Pres­i­dent of the Par­ent Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, Zena Ra­matali, said she did not see the video but ad­vised youths to do the right thing. "We have to ed­u­cate the young peo­ple about us­ing Face­book," she added. She ad­vised youths to be with peo­ple who were will­ing to mo­ti­vate and en­cour­age them. The T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion said it had no in­for­ma­tion on the mat­ter and could not com­ment. Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Es­ther Le­Gendre was told about the in­ci­dent but did not re­turn any calls from the Guardian.