PEACE Day celebrations at the Mona High School in Kingston are expected to be a little different this year as the principal, members of staff and students have planned to stage a peace walk in protest against Saturday’s murder of Jordano Flemmings, a student of the school.

“I think it is high time that a statement is made. The assault on our children must stop, something must be done, and we are calling on the powers that be to do something about it,” Earl Smith, principal of the school, told Jordano’s classmates at a special counselling session yesterday.

Should they be granted permission from the police, the walk will take the Mona High students and teachers from the school in Mona to Liguanea. The walk will take them through Ariela Drive, where 15 year-old Jordano was fatally stabbed.

Yesterday, there was an atmosphere of despair at the school as students reminisced about Jordano during the counselling session held at the school’s library.

Given the chance to read aloud the thoughts they had written on paper, some of the students lamented their friend’s untimely death.

“I just want to say that I did not expect Jordano’s life to go like this, but God knows best,” one student wrote.

“You are gone but not forgotten.He (Jordano) was such a good and trustworthy person,” said another student.

For one male student, however, it was evident that his heart was overcome with rage and thoughts of revenge.

“Me can’t believe how them kill the man, star. It can’t just go so because me have something to tell Jordano. The boy dem wey do that fe dead back,” the boy wrote.

However, at the time of his death Jordano had been out of school for nearly a month. According to his mother, he was bullied constantly and refused to go back to school even though the principal had taken steps to resolve the issue with the alleged aggressors.

Meantime, harping on the number of children killed since last week, Dr St Aubyn Bartlett, member of parliament for east St Andrew, of which Mona is a part, received much support from the audience when he adamantly called for the imposition of the death penalty for persons found guilty of killing children.

“Our children are precious and special and that is why I’m imploring that persons who kill children be given the death penalty. They should be hanged until they die,” he said.

In the meantime, the slain boy’s mother, Andrea Flemming-Beauford, said she had been receiving much support during her time of grief, even from persons she doesn’t know.

“Old people that do not even know him have told me that Jordano has impacted on their lives, and these are people that I don’t even know,” she told the Observer.

Flemmings-Beuford, meanwhile, called for an end to the killing of children.

“Please, stop killing our youths, it is not fair to us. It is not fair to us as mothers, or to our society,” she said.

Flemmings’ death follows that of six-year-old Levana Gordon last Thursday night and those of Jessie Ogilvie, 9, Sean Chin, 8, and Lloyd McCool, 3, on February 26 in St Thomas. Last Thursday the body of six-year-old Jhaid McCool, another victim of those gruesome St Thomas killings, was found in a shallow grave in Rosemont District, St Mary. Her cause of death is yet to be determined.

Levana Gordon lost her life after gunmen sprayed her father’s silver Honda Integra with bullets as they drove along the dark Hartlands main road in St Catherine. Asleep during the ambush, Levana received several shots to her chest and died instantly.

Along with their mother, Farika Martin-McCool, and her aunt, Terry-Ann ‘Teenie’ Mohammed, the children killed in St Thomas had their throats brutally slashed by the perpetrators. All the victims were members of one family, living at 49 Duhaney Pen Road, St Thomas until their untimely deaths on February 26.