How has the Ministry been involved in crime prevention at the youth level, how involved do schools get?
We have implemented what we call a “Youth against Crime Initiative” and we have embraced the youth clubs, the schools and other organized centers of young people activity because the youths are the most at risks, both as victims and as perpetrators of crimes and we are going to continue that engagement and continue to refine the nature of the engagement to include mentoring programmes and the like in the schools. But with crime you face a serious chicken and egg situation. There is probably no greater antidote to rampant criminality than successful vibrant economic circumstances. It is in that regard that you face a real chicken and egg predicament because if there is no economic vibrancy you have the potential for crime increasing and criminal activity seeming attractive to young people. By the same token, criminal activity drives away legitimate economic activity, so you get caught in a vicious cycle of deterioration once criminality takes route in any particular community. So we rec
