MORE than 40,000 parents were trained in an effort to improve their parenting skills in the lead-up to the start of the new school year.
Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams announced .
Jamaicans can now access what the Ministry of Education is describing as “useful information” on parenting thanks to a newly-launched mobile messaging service ParentText.
It is the latest such service launched under the United Nations Spotligh
Jamaicans can now access useful information on parenting thanks to a newly-launched mobile messaging service ParentText, which is the latest initiative launched under the United Nations Spotlight Init.
Stephen Price
Increasing education about online safety and fortifying structures to protect citizens with legislation were among the proposals put forward to limit negative activities associated with internet usage.
Calls for implementation of these change mechanisms were made by Stephen Price, Country Manager, Flow Jamaica, during a recent Safer Internet Day (SID) 2021 Virtual Teen Summit which was streamed live from the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston to viewers on Facebook and YouTube pages and a newspaper’s website.
Staged under the global theme ‘Together for a Better Internet’, SID focused on the importance of digital responsibility and the measures persons – specifically youth and seniors - should employ when using the internet.