THE Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is to seek the support of the private sector to build a monument commemorating the lives of children who die violently in the Corporate Area.

Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie told a Child Month church service, hosted by the council at the Boulevard Baptist Church on Sunday, that the monument would be erected at the corner of Barry and Church streets in downtown Kingston.

Mayor McKenzie said the KSAC has contracted the services of sculptor Paul Napier to design the monument, which is scheduled to be unveiled in November during the celebration of Local Government Month.

By next May, the monument is scheduled to be the site of an annual commemoration ceremony, recalling the names of children who died over the previous 12 months to be held on the first Monday in May, said McKenzie.

The mayor said that the monument would not simply record the deaths, but was intended to have the nation focus on what violence is doing to the nation's children.

In a message at the service, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports Olivia Grange welcomed the idea of a monument commemorating the lives of slain children, and promised her ministry's full support.

The service and the monument have resulted from a motion moved at the KSAC last year by councillor of the Seivwright Gardens Division, Delroy Williams, which was unanimously approved by the council.

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