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The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is encouraging parents to prioritise the safety of their children, especially with the resumption of face-to-face classes.

For parents whose children are going out to school for the first time, Director of Communications at the CAC, Latoya Halstead, explained the importance of parents playing their part in helping to keep their children safe.

“Do not write your children’s names on the outside of their personal items. Instead, we encourage you to teach them their names, address, your names and ensure that there is a contact number that they can call,” she said.

Halstead was addressing a Jamaica Information Service ‘Think Tank’, in Kingston, on September 13.

She said that as the rainy season is upon us, “if you know that your community floods when it rains, speak to your children about where they can go, what they can do, who they can speak with, and where they can seek help as soon as there’s an issue.”

“Please do not leave your children up to their own devices. You are the wiser ones, and you are there to guide them,” she said.

As such, “we are encouraging you to have a plan and to ensure that your children know what this plan is, because we really and truly do not want to see our children suffering,” said the Director of Communications.

She pointed out that for the past two years many students have not been out in the school space and so it is difficult for them to re-acclimatise to the social environment.

“When we are talking about re-acclimatising, we are also talking about the fact that many children have been doing a lot of gaming. So, in terms of trying to get their heads back into the books and back into the school space, we are encouraging our parents, once your child has a smart device, please put an app on that device to monitor their activities,” Ms. Halstead said.

To monitor a child’s activities, parents may utilise parental control apps and test apps and play games before their child use them. Parents may also set up shared Google or Yahoo accounts which will forward all emails to a parent to monitor contacts and communications.

Ms. Halstead advised that in addition to monitoring children’s activities, parents should set limits for their children’s internet time.

“I’m encouraging you to find a way of cutting off the Wi-Fi, because if they don’t have it, they have no choice but to be off that device. Have somebody teach you how to shut off your modem at a particular time. That way you are better able to help your child to be the best that they can be,” she said.

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 ABWU to host 55th Annual Delegates Conference

Over 100 delegates are expected to gather on Sunday 25 and Monday 26 September, 2022 for the Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union 55th Annual Delegates Conference.

The gathering is being held under the theme “Uniting workers with a renewed vision”.

According to ABWU General Secretary, David Massiah, the conference is particularly significant because of the “seismic-shifts” that have taken place in the world of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukraine war and international commitments to transition to green energy.

“We must resolve to prepare our members – our workers – for the changes and shifts that will come. Our deliberations and discussions will be largely centered around the disappearing of some traditional jobs and the emergence of new jobs,” Massiah explained.

The conference commences with an opening ceremony on Sunday which will feature guest speaker, Dr. Carl Roberts – former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Following the ceremony, the Conference will hear reports from various workplaces and review several matters of business.

Another important highlight of the gathering will be the election of new officers to serve on the Union’s executive body for the next two years.

The ABWU is the largest union operating in the local private sector and is affiliated with key international and regional labour organizations.

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El director de seguridad pública de LUMA Energy, Abner Gómez, aseguró en RADIO ISLA que unas 495,000 personas ya tienen el servicio de energía eléctrica tras el paso del huracán Fiona por Puerto Rico. 

Según Abner Gómez, esto presenta a un 32 por ciento de los beneficiarios de este servicio. “Falta mucho en el sentido de que para que entre más generación, pero ya tenemos, de la parte que no sufrió daños, la parte Norte de la isla, casi el 50 por ciento de los clientes tienen servicio”, expuso Gómez. 

Abner Gómez comunicó que ayer le pasaron las líneas para energizar las centrales EcoEléctrica y Aguirre y que están a la espera de la generación.

Pendientes a RADIO ISLA para más información.   

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