Dear Editor,
Quite recently I noticed on the news the regular coverage of the killing of youngsters in Jamaica. I think some it this could have been avoided if some of these teenagers were going home immediately after school. At times I have passed students at bus terminuses lurking around Half-Way-Tree, downtown, Molynes Road. I can't understand why they don't go home.
There is a police booth situated in the JUTC bus park in Half-Way-Tree and there are also security personnel patrolling around. I think there should be a stronger alliance between them to ensure that students board the buses and go home after school.
My suggestion to the JUTC is to start taking photographs of these students and publish those loitering in the bus parks so their parents/guardians can become aware.
Moreover, I also think that the parents need to give guidance to their teenagers, especially girls, to be aware of the dangers and the unexpected. My daughter has told me that when she takes the bus, sometimes there are schoolchildren who are very noisy when they board the buses; they use indecent language, play vulgar music at high volume on their phones, and no one says anything to them. I think the driver should have the right to scold them about this behaviour. I need to see and hear that the transport inspectors, including the police, start working together to handle this problem effectively.
Mark Bell Honourable
mark.bellphoto@hotmail.com
Go home, schoolers!
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Quite recently I noticed on the news the regular coverage of the killing of youngsters in Jamaica. I think some it this could have been avoided if some of these teenagers were going home immediately after school. At times I have passed students at bus terminuses lurking around Half-Way-Tree, downtown, Molynes Road. I can't understand why they don't go home.
There is a police booth situated in the JUTC bus park in Half-Way-Tree and there are also security personnel patrolling around. I think there should be a stronger alliance between them to ensure that students board the buses and go home after school.
My suggestion to the JUTC is to start taking photographs of these students and publish those loitering in the bus parks so their parents/guardians can become aware.
Moreover, I also think that the parents need to give guidance to their teenagers, especially girls, to be aware of the dangers and the unexpected. My daughter has told me that when she takes the bus, sometimes there are schoolchildren who are very noisy when they board the buses; they use indecent language, play vulgar music at high volume on their phones, and no one says anything to them. I think the driver should have the right to scold them about this behaviour. I need to see and hear that the transport inspectors, including the police, start working together to handle this problem effectively.
Mark Bell Honourable
mark.bellphoto@hotmail.com
Go home, schoolers!
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