for pupils was unveiled yesterday.

And Shadow Human Affairs Minister Ewart Brown said community involvement in the education system was the best policeman of pupils' behaviour.

He was speaking as he introduced the Ambassadors for Peace at the House of Assembly yesterday.

Dr. Brown said: "We don't believe our children have become infected with a strange virus -- this has been a global problem.

"What we do have is the intent and the commitment to see the school become a peaceful place.'' And he said he hoped similar schemes would spring up in other schools suffering similar problems to Warwick.

Dr. Brown has drafted in former Warwick principal Randy Horton, PTSA president Anthony Steede, community activist Cromwell Shakir and Student Council vice-president Gail Lightbourne as part of the peace attempt.

And he said a mentoring scheme had already been discussed.

Dr. Brown, who represents the Warwick West area and has a child at the school, said a mentoring process had already been discussed.

He added that it was important that men, particularly black men, make time to visit the school and act as good examples -- and offered his own services.

Ms. Lightbourne, 18, said she backed a mentoring scheme, and said peer pressure was a major influence on pupils. She added: "That's why everything happens -- negative and positive, but the positive doesn't show as strongly as the negative.'' Dr. Brown also said that employers should consider hiring youngsters for after-school work to teach them self-respect and self-discipline.

He added that Leroy (Nibs) Lewis, former president of PHC, had joined the drive and was planning to work with Warwick students on a special project.

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