What is this?Sharia law?The
Muttawa?The fashion/morality
police?This seems rather extremist,when the police can order one to tuck one’s
shirt in.Looks like a violation of one’s constitutional right.I can
understand the cops asking
people to move on,but I think this is outside their
duties to enforce the law and order.

love the work it’s about time they get away with too muchhhhhhhhhhhh

great job police

what the police did was a good thing I think that school children shall always be neat and tidy cause there are the future of Barbados and there also representing the school, if there are wearing the uniform, as a person who has travel overseas, the kids in Barbados shall be proud of the school, and respect the law.

Fixing clothes? Removing earrings? Is this what the Barbados police is for? Call them the Royal Barbados Fashion police!

Why criminalize these young people by harassing them? As long as no real crimes are being committed leave them alone.  Let them celebrate the end of term peacefully.

Parents aren’t enforcing discipline, then let the police do your job!!! GREAT JOB RBPF!!!!!

@ Mike in Toronto: It is either you are out of touch or you no longer have the interest of Barbados at heart. The latter comment also goes for @ Sam. To our children, words like order and peaceful have new meanings. If we want to save our children, we have to set and maintain standards. The RBPF our support, not condemnation for this effort.

I think we as a people need to step into the real world.  We are too hung up on looks and appearance.  I have sat in classrooms next to university graduates who have red hair, piercings all over, tattoos and alas UNTUCKED SHIRTS, but with Brilliant minds.

I do commend the Police for keeping an eye on the students, and preventing the liming, but tuck in shirts?  So if he didn’t, what would be the charge?

MIKE IN TORONTO SHUT DOWN. THESE YOUNGSTERS NEED TOUGH LOVE @ TIMES. PPL LIKE YOU WITH THA FOLLY OF RIGHTS NON-SENSE IS WHO GOT THESE GREMLINS IN ALL NORTH AMERICA OUT OF ORDER TALKING NON-SENSE ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS . THESE KIDS RIGHT IS TO LISTEN TO PROPER ORDER OF GROWN PPL N THEY’LL BE BETTER OFF

Looks like some of you people have a penchant for totalitarianism.No individual rights.The rules are arbitrarially made-up and enforced.This attitude reminds me of some of the signs displayed by protesters against the Muhammad cartoons.“To hell with rights.”“Down with freedom of speech.”
Some of you are so intolerant, that you won’t mind if you could grab someone’s kid and put a whipping on him/her yourselves.

oH mIKE, please! please! Barbados is in trouble because we no longer have standards. We don’t want this decay to ferment any further. I feel sure that growing up, some of your neighbours’ whipping helped to make you the gentleman you are today. So why can’t anyone with the best interest of this nation at heart correct these children when they are sighted going astray?
@ Amazed: how can you compare hard back men and women at university, who are well beyond the age of majority, with children for whom the state is responsible, and in whom an effort is being made to instill grace, pride and discipline? What has brilliance got to do with self respect?

Have never been whipped by a neighbour. A neighbour whipping somebody’s kid ought to be charged with assault.Get with the programme, man!That’s primitive stuff.

@Mike you seem to have something to prove..Why you do not invite some of these little wayward kids to home see what ya said is true and not only in Barbados I believed you see this in Canada also.. Why should you care if you have no kids so you have not to worry bout the evil you leaving behind when ya cock up and dead. Try and please learn or seek deeper in yourself by reading the last months events in Jamaica Tivolli Gardens. That is why this part of Jamaica had no respect for they own laws and now most crying out now for children.

@Mike what planet are you on? Kids EVERYWHERE are in a downward spiral because of lack of discipline, if parents are not doing their jobs then the police have every right to enforce some! You need to stay in Canada with that ridiculous attitude!

Maybe someone can answer this question.  The article indicated that it was the “end of the school term” and the students, as part of a tradition, decended on the City.  Well, if the school term has ended, then it would seem to me that, technically, the “students” are acting in an individual, private right and not subject to school rules notwithstanding wearing school attire.  If wearing school attire outside of school hours or term subjects one to the school rules then one of the deans from Combermere or St. Winnifred’s will come and discipline my wife when she plays “dress up” for me! LOL. But seriously, I know we want to instill discipline in the kids but by the same token we have to be careful not to go overboard with our need to “discipline” the kids and deprive them of some of the same rites of passage that many of us experienced and treasured.

The RBPF needs to focus on crime and discontinue wasting law enforcement resources on gibberish. There is no law that states that a school child must have his shirt tucked into his pants. This is a regulation schools across Barbados have enforced on school premises, not a societal law. Barbados needs to look at the superior depiction and stop this mediocre approach. For instance Barbados Police Officers do not carry firepower but want to fight violent crimes. People open your eyes. RPBF need to focus and gang activity and the drug trade.

This is actions of a frustrated government that doesn’t have the imagination to cull the resources needed to improve the educational outlets for youth. I graduated from Columbia University, one of the best modern universities in the world and we often went to school in big earrings, untucked shirts, sportswear, shorts etc.  ALL of us have gone on to be professionals. We travel the world and have good lives. I am also Barbadian and it is my sincerest desire that one day BAJANS START TO THINK STRATEGICALLY and not react emotionally when your sense of impropriety has been aroused. The alienation of young people along with high unemployment and availability of drugs leads to the creation of GANGS. Wake up Barbados. Find the resources to throw an end-of-year party at beaches and parks around the island if you don’t want the kids clogging up the streets downtown. But if you can’t find the resources and imagination to better shepherd the youth LEAVE THEM ALONE.

Give the RBPF some credit. Maybe they can come to Toronto or Chicago and teach some of these children how to respect property.

Not all these children are bad but some bend to peer pressure.

Rhianna does not know how to be a role model but in some aspects, they worship her.  That said, bravo Com. Dotting,your men and women of the RBPF and thank you.

the police force is doing a good job. Some kids need to learn respect and decorum. i see them at the bus terminal jumping the queue and cursing out loud because they have no respect for others. make them tuck in their shirts and run them away from liming in front the stores because all they do is go in and take up things. three cheers for the RBPF—Hip-Hip Hooray, Hip-Hip Hooray, Hip-Hip Hooray!

I think the law enforcement has a moral responsibility to ensure the Public safety, However, as far a providing the moral tutelage for the society, I think it beyond the frontier of they responsibility. In places like America where freedom of expression are widely accepted, even among the younger generation,I think that there would have been serious ramification if a police officer, took it upon herself to imposed here own discipline on someone else.