Two schoolboys stabbed in two days

A longstanding feud between two schoolboys culminated in the stabbing of a 13-year-old student of the East Ruimveldt Secondary School on Wednesday.

Jermaine Bright, a third former, was yesterday well enough to ride his bicycle around his Block ‘B’ Sophia neighbourhood, but on Wednesday he was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after a third form student of the Lodge Community High School plunged a pair of scissors into his back.

It was the second schoolboy stabbing in as many days in the city,