Overhaul Education System To Help Fix Crime Problem? | RJR News
By Nakinskie Robinson
Author and media and management consultant Dr. Elaine Williams-Morgan is calling for an overhaul of the education system as stakeholders work to re-establish stability in crime prone areas across the country.
Dr. Williams-Morgan says there must be a return to values and attitudes in homes, character-building in schools and greater involvement of the church.
“Yams give a better deal when they have support from sturdy sticks and where they’re watered and fertilised. The time for reaping was also carefully planned. Could it be that our farmers are doing a better job at cultivating yellow yams than we are doing at cultivating the human beings? Could it be that our failure to give adequate attention to the development of our human capital, that that is the reason we are unable to achieve the culture of peace?” she contended.
Dr. Williams-Morgan was speaking during a peace talk event organised by the Manchester Peace Coalition at the Cecil Charlton Park in Manchester, recently.
Stakeholders used International Day of Peace, globally observed on September 21, to discuss solutions towards creating a more peaceful society.
Chairman of the Manchester Peace Coalition, Dr. Clifton Reid, has expressed concern about Jamaica’s ranking among the least peaceful countries in the world, and challenged the country to consider the way forward towards a more peaceful society.
“Every year, the Institute for Economics and Peace releases something called the Global Peace Index,” he pointed out, listing the 10 most peaceful countries in the world as Iceland (at number one), Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Portugal, Denmark, Slovenia, and Malaysia (at number ten).
Jamaica, he lamented, was ranked number 91 out of 163 nations, with countries like Trinidad and Tobago and Senegal ahead of it.
President of the Manchester Neighbourhood Council, Verna Manning, also encouraged more residents to form neighbourhood watches and partner with the police to make their communities and parishes safer.