Unruly ‘lime’ on St James Street

THE EDITOR: I wish to express concern over the horde of school children who congregate at the corner of St James Street and Pointe-a-Pierre Road on a daily basis.

My business, a medical lab, is located at the point where school children and their peers gather twice a day, around noon and at 3 pm every week day. There are no clear purposes to the gathering except to “lime,” engage in public display of sexual activities, vandalise the premises, obstruct the passageway for my customers, staff and the general public and cause damage to my vehicles. Apart from these menaces, they are known to habitually break out into obscene and violent confrontations amongst themselves or one “gang” against another. We have on many occasions called on the E999 service, the Marabella police station and the Community Police to mitigate the situation. These measures however are short term and do not address the problem on a permanent basis. Our most recent action has been to write to the police pleading with them to alleviate this threat by performing daily patrols at the time when these crowds are prone to appear. Unquestionably there is need for crowd control measures to be implemented at this location at the specified times. It is my intention that daily dispersal of the crowd will act as a deterrent and serve over time to eliminate it completely.

RICHARD RAMREKHA
Medical Technologist