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Thwaites slams violent dancehall lyricsMonday, July 08, 2013EDUCATION Minister Ronald Thwaites has slammed the violent lyrics of DJs, which he says sow seeds of anti-social behaviour among youths that spill over into the nation’s schools.Minister Thwaites, who was addressing last Thursday’s Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) Golden Torch award function at the Jamaica Grande Hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann, said negative music became the youths’ reality.“It’s like studying medicine. That’s what they learn…what they see daily (and) that’s what they do when they join the gang,” Thwaites argued.He pointed to songs such as Gangster Anthem by ‘Terror Fabulous’; We no watch face we put bullet inna any face by ‘Mad Cobra’; To kill an informer is me greatest joy by ‘Bounty Killa’, and Rude boy living a no fun thing by ‘Spragga Benz’ among those which promote antisocial behaviour.“The sad truth is that all that is promoted in these songs happen every day,” Thwaites told the gathering of educators. “Ghetto youths are kept out of schools due to violence and fed a steady diet of this so called music,” he added.The minister, in the meantime, lauded the teachers for their services to the nation, as he assisted in the presentation of awards to teachers who served for 35 years and over.Teachers, he noted, had been actively engaged in the development of the nation through education. He recalled their roles in the opening up of secondary education to the children of the poor with the Common Entrance Examination in 1957; in the expansion of secondary schools in the 1960s with junior secondary schools and free education in the 1970s.Thwaites said the society could not lose sight of the hope teachers brought to the youngsters with HEART that offered skills training during the 1980s, and the process of transformation in the 1990s and beyond.“None of these policy prescriptions could have been implemented successfully without the input of teachers,” Thwaites said.A total of 450 teachers were recognised for long and distinguished service at the function.(L-R) Bounty Killa and Mad Cobra
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