Observer’s teenAGE goes digital

Tuesday, January 06, 2015 | 3:30 PM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Students from schools across the Corporate Area flocked the Half Way Tree Transport Centre for the Jamaica Observer’s grand launch of its teenAGE website.

Observer teenAGE, which is in its 13th year as a weekly publication, will see the majority of its content going digital as the newspaper seeks to better cater to the desires of students.

The publication, which is published every Tuesday, will now be updated daily and will create more accessibility for young users.

In an upbeat atmosphere at the bus centre, students shared their views of the publication going digital.

Adrian McCarthy of the Old Hope Road-based Jamaica College said he thinks “it’s a sensible move to put the publication online, because majority of the time teenagers are online”.

He told OBSERVER ONLINE that having the content online means they will not have limited access to it, citing that they may lose the paper.

Shane Anglin from Linton’s Academic Services says, “It is a good move as the world is becoming more computerised so less teens will be paying attention to the actual paper.”

Norman Manley High’s Deshawn Beckford says he has mixed feelings about the publication going completely digital.

“It is better for it to be both in print and digital so those who still want to buy it can do so and who wants to view it online can do so,” he said.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Julian Robinson, told OBSERVER ONLINE that the Government is in full support of the move as it encourages more knowledge and innovation.

“I am very happy to endorse and encourage this move by the Jamaica Observer. We believe that if more Jamaicans engage themselves online it will eventually help our economy.”

He urged students to be mindful of cybercrime as they browse online. Robinson said a move such as this encourages youth to become more technologically inclined.

The contents of teenAGE can be viewed at: jamaicaobserver.com/teenage, while selected portions will still be published in the Tuesday Observer.

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Pakistani teenage activist, Malala Yousafzai, to visit Trinidad and Tobago

Seventeen year-old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai (Credit: UN.org)

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday July 15, 2014, CMC – Seventeen year-old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai will visit the twin island republic on July 31.

This was confirmed on Monday in a statement from the Ministry of Tertiary Education and Skills Training.

Yousafzai gained worldwide attention in 2012, when a Taliban gunman, who opposed the teenager’s advocacy for women’s rights to education, entered the school bus in which she was travelling and shot her in the head.

She survived the attack and went on to continue her advocacy work, most recently campaigning for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram.

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Malala has received numerous awards for her work as an activist, including the National Youth Peace Prize, the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice and International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination among others.

Her birthday, July 12, has been named “Malala Day”.

Praising Malala’s initiative, Tertiary Education Minister Fazal Karim said, “We in Trinidad and Tobago are extremely fortunate to live in a country where all of our citizens are offered universal, free access to education from the pre-school to tertiary levels and as such we can be seen as a model of what this young lady is advocating for across the world.”

A statement from the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) confirmed that Malala will be hosted by the institution in celebration of its tenth anniversary.

“She is a transformative voice in this generation – an advocate for the rights of girls in all countries and cultures to be able to access quality education,” the statement said.

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Pakistani teenage activist, Malala Yousafzai, to visit Trinidad and Tobago