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PNM Tobago East candidate Ayanna Webster-Roy says too many of the country’s young people are becoming involved in gang activity.

Addressing a political meeting in Glamorgan on April 10, Webster-Roy said the government, if it retains office after the April 28 general election, will expand the technical/vocational skills training programme to cater to young people who may have “fallen through the cracks” in the school system.

“One of the areas we recognise that is an area of focus for young people is additional tech/voc skills training opportunities. Not everybody, as we say in the countryside, could take book, not everybody could sit down and focus in a classroom setting and take the learning. So some people would have to go out and take the technical vocational skills training,” she said.