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Friday, July 25, 2025

Griffith: Cadet Force, Scouts can help reduce teenage aggression

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Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith yes­ter­day urged young adults and chil­dren to join var­i­ous clubs to help de­crease ag­gres­sion and learn dis­ci­pline.Grif­fith was speak­ing with mem­bers of the me­dia yes­ter­day af­ter the T&T Cadet Force 104th an­niver­sary church pa­rade at the San­ta Rosa RC Church in Ari­ma.His com­ments came on the heels of an up­surge in vi­o­lence among school chil­dren."As a Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty we can find a lev­el play­ing field here with the Cadets.

"We could look at Brown­ies and Scouts for girls in pri­ma­ry school and Cadets in sec­ondary schools to­wards en­hanc­ing our youths in so­ci­ety."He said these groups in­volves crit­i­cal as­pects to de­vel­op the youths in so­ci­ety. "It in­volves dis­ci­pline, re­spect, ca­ma­raderie, and utilis­es their en­er­gy in the right man­ner, "he said. Grif­fith said he plans to es­tab­lish the Cadet Force in every sec­ondary school.

"To find a mech­a­nism to give a de­gree of dis­ci­pline. We need to find a mech­a­nism to take away their en­er­gy from be­ing in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty," he said.


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