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Teen quartet charged for beating student with cutlass at De Willem
(Kaieteur News) – Four teenagers were jointly charged on Monday in connection with assault allegedly committed on a 16-year-old student at De Willem, West Coast Demerara on January 21, 2025.
The charge was laid under Section 21 of the Summary Jurisdiction Offences Act, Chapter 8:02.
The defendants appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh, where the charge was read to them jointly.
They all pleaded guilty.
The matter was postponed to February 25, 2026, pending a probation report prior to sentencing.
Kaieteur News reported on January 23 that three males: ages 15, 16 and 19 were arrested following the brutal assault of a male student at De Willem, West Coast Demerara. The incident sparked public outrage after a video of the attack circulated widely on social media.
The disturbing footage shows the victim, dressed in what appears to be his school uniform, standing helplessly as he is surrounded by the three suspects. The attackers are seen taking turns threatening, insulting and intimidating the student, with one demanding that he apologises while the others looked on.
Minister of Education Sonia Parag visited the Zeeburg Secondary School where the victim is attending and had a stern talk with teachers and students.
In a video clip posted to the ministry’s Facebook page she said that there will be zero-tolerance for gangs under her tenure.
“Are you supposed to be disrespecting a teacher? Are you supposed to be disrespecting fellow students? So, we know all the right things to do, but why don’t you? Why we don’t do them? Because we are influenced, and because we can be easily influenced. Let me say something to you. There is no way under my tenure that I am going to tolerate any group of persons calling themselves a gang,” Minister Parag said.
She added that she will be working with the authorities to prevent any group of persons that infiltrates a school with the intentions to create either a gang, clique or group.
Noting that children cannot develop unless they are in a safe environment, the minister said that the teachers will not be able to do their jobs unless they too are in a safe space.
“We are taking a zero-tolerance approach to any kind of violence, whether it be student against student, student against teacher, student from one school to another school, school against school, and when I say zero tolerance, we are going to be working to drastically reduce bullying, violence, that is stemming from bullying and so on. It’s a situation where I definitely want this to become something that I will work wholeheartedly on for the next five years and that is the position of the Government as well,” she added.
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