A 14-year-old student of Lusignan Secondary School, East Coast Demerara (ECD, has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was stabbed in the neck by another student during a fight in close proximity of the Beterverwagting (BV) Police Station, ECD, on Wednesday afternoon.
Police said that the aggressor was identified as a 14-year-old female student of the Beterverwagting Secondary School. Reports indicate that the injured teen was taken to the Beterverwagting Health Centre before being shuttled to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a minibus with police escort. She was later admitted to hospital.
In an interview with the Guyana Chronicle, students of Beterverwagting Secondary school related that the altercation between the two young ladies stemmed from a fight that occurred last year and it has been an ongoing feud since then. This newspaper understands that the injured student travelled with her ‘crew’ from Lusignan to confront the BV student during which a fight ensued and the BV student, in an attempt to defend herself, stabbed the young lady from the Lusignan Secondary.

“They (Lusignan Students) ganged up on her [BV student] and beat she up last year, so she [BV student] decided to deal with them one at a time when they were walking alone, but this time when the fight happen is the girl that bank she [Lusignan student] start the fight and she end up getting cut in her neck,” one student told this newspaper.
Another student related that a woman tried parting the fight but was cuffed to the head.
“The one who slash the other one in her neck don’t have any gang to represent her so she get desperate,” another student related.
Reports indicate that the BV Secondary student was initially taken into custody but was handed over into her parents’ care as investigations continue. Residents in the area are calling on the Ministry of Education to intervene as violence escalates in schools.