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... Antigua Sun The Web Antigua Sun Last Updated: Monday Mar 27 2006 Home Archives Sign-up Login Contact Us Jobs Search Web Antigua SUN Get your local weather Sign up to receivethe SUN dailyby E-Mail e-Mail story to a friend printer friendly page DARE programme reboots Monday March 27 2006 The commissioner of police said the DARE programme conducted in primary schools is suffering from a lack of trained officers and as a result, some schools have been neglected.

The ba href=/drug abuse/a/b Resistance Education (DARE) programme originated in 1983 through the collaborative effort of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Unified School District.

The mission of DARE is to provide children with the information they need to live drug free.

The Antiguan programme, since its inception in 1997, has now spread to 20 schools from the four it started out with.

At the graduation ceremony of the Cedar Grove and Villa Primary’s 5th and 6th grade, Commissioner Delano Christopher revealed that the programme had suffered in recent years.

Click here to visit Bank of Antigua She said although the DARE programme’s influence had spread through more than 20 schools in nine years, there had been a lapse for the last two years.

The main factor of this lapse she said was the lack of personnel to conduct the classes.

“As late as 2003, there were 13 trained DARE officers in the Royal Police Force of Antigua & Barbuda.

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... Race Riot?

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It’s far too easy to pin recent violence in the L.A.

County Jail on ethnic tensions By Silja J.A.

Talvi | Los Angeles Prisoners got messages out to family any way they could. When the nation’s largest jail system erupted in violence on Feb.

4, officials thought they would quickly bring the situation under control.

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County Jail correctional officers are trained in forms of riot control, and regularly drilled in the art of jail combat, complete with S.W.A.T.-style protective gear and access to an arsenal of lethal and “non-lethal” weaponry.

But this wasn’t the kind of inmate uprising that jail officials expected.

For the better part of a month, inmates throughout the sprawling L.A.

County Jail system tangled with one another in small-scale scuffles and large-scale battles.

By late February, two dead inmates and hundreds of injured inmates later, jail officials believed they had finally contained the riot.

But then violence broke out again on March 1, sending black and Latino inmates to the hospital.

It seems unlikely to be the last episode of violence.

Most reporters covering the story embraced the “race riot” label, stressing that the animosities between African Americans and Latinos in jail had finally reached a fever p...

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Martinez, the director of security for the Ysleta Independent School District, there's only two places gang membership can lead to."If you get involved with this, you're going to end up in either Mount Carmel Cemetery or the trauma unit of Thomason General Hospital," said Martinez, a former member of the El Paso Police Department's Gang Unit.

"That's what parents and teens should realize about gangs."Although police and security officials in the city's three largest school districts said violence at campuses is not a problem, they believe gangs exist in e...