Time for Drug Awareness Week

THE EDITOR: The Ministry of Education should consider the idea of making the last week in October an annual drug and alcohol awareness week in all schools. This measure will do wonders for the education system as far as indiscipline and violence are concerned.

The awareness week will also go a long way in reducing broken homes, murders, rapes, kidnappings, incest and other criminal activities in society. We promise to assist the Minister of Education, Hazel Manning if she decides to implement this measure in the nation’s schools. The Board of Education of the La Romaine Integrated Education Project (IEP) had its most successful drug awareness week this year. Great support came from principals as well as community and church groups throughout the country. Citizens are beginning to recognise that our efforts are genuine and they are now supporting this noteworthy event.

It would be foolish to think that every citizen supports the awareness week. You see, some people who abuse drugs and act in a very anti-social manner are very unhappy when the facts about the dangers of drug abuse are mentioned. They will try as much as is humanly possible to put the event in a bad light. However, our fight against substance abuse goes on because we know that many young people can lose their way in life due to the abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs.

HARRACK BALRAMSINGH
La Romaine