Suruj calls for anger management

In a media release, Rambachan also voiced support for a statement by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley that Trinidad and Tobago was a violent society with too many illegal guns entering the country.

“It might very well be true since it appears that people are settling their problems through violence rather than negotiations. The recognition of the problem however is not enough,” he stated, adding, “it has now become necessary to focus on why the society especially young people are so angry and begin to heal their minds of such anger by the introduction of new programmes in the school syllabus.” “A school curriculum while it is generally intended to provide an education for a job and making a valuable contribution to society, must also be relevant to the situational context in which the society currently finds itself and also provide skills in personal and community problem resolution, negotiation and interpersonal relations,” he stated.

“Not to start at this fundamental level of the child and teenager will be to export into the future a range of people emotions which will eventually explode into violence,” Rambachan stated as he urged Education Minister Anthony Garcia to consider his suggestion and as well as other programmes which would expose children to human values.