MINISTER OF YOUTH Stephen Lashley has warned parents who refuse to send their children to school that the authorities will come after them.
He urged communities yesterday to pay close attention to the education of the youth.
Last Friday two members of the Rastafarian Jah Holy Faith were convicted of failing to send their nine- and 12-year-old children to school. They will be sentenced next month and the Child Care Board has applied to the High Court to make the children wards of the state.
“Our court system still has to respond with the force of the law and that is why, if indeed we have persons who contest the law by not sending their children to school because of their own excuse, then I believe that the society and the community have to speak to that,” Lashley said. (TG)
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