As it moves towards outlawing corporal punishment with regard to children, the government, through the Ministry of Legal Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Education Schools Welfare Division is hosting a two-day Restorative Justice Training exercise with schools’ welfare officers and counsellors. The training is being hosted at the Police Training Centre in Georgetown.
Director of the Restorative Justice Centre William Boston, during the opening of the training yesterday, said “Welfare officers will now see that restorative justice is a paradigm shift in dealing with dissidents not only as it relates to the court system, but … to schools and people, and it is more or less the modern, holistic way of dealing with what is categorised as wrongdoings.”