Ebenezer: --- Police has confiscated several items including marijuana and a bullet that matches a .38 caliber that was found in a student school bag. The student in question hails from Dominica and has been identified a 16-year old. Police intends to keep the student in custody until they are able to determine where the youth got the bullet from and possibly if they can find the weapon. His parents were also called in to the police station after the discovery was made.
Police made the discovery was made after several police and VKS officers made a control at the St. Maarten Academy PSVE on Wednesday morning. Among the items seized are a number of scissors, two knives, lighter and matches, and marijuana.
Principal Solange Duncan said she made the request after the concerns at the school is growing on a daily basis, she said the students can no longer be trusted. Duncan said she intends to send a clear message to her students by having these controls on a more regular basis which is ensure safety and security is upheld at the school.
Henson said recently there have been a number of fights and or confrontations within the school and with other students from the nearby schools and as such the school's principal thought it necessary to have the controls to ensure both the students and teacher's safety since some of them has been going to the learning establishment in fear.'
There are also suspicions that students from the PSVE Academy might be using drugs on the school's premises and the school management wants to eradicate drug use on their premises.
The management of the school believes these types of controls would bring a "sense of safety" back into the school, especially for those students and teachers who go to school with some degree of fear.
After the search the police spokesman Ricardo HENSON was given the opportunity to address the students. Henson spoke to the students about crime and drug use, and gang related violence which has become a growing concern for the entire community.
Students were also given a D.A.R.E rubber band as symbol of their in the part in the fight against violence and drug abuse.