Don’t bring children to public places
KUCHING: Parents should not bring their children out to public places for the time being, said Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah. She explained that children were among those at higher risk from Covid-19. “It is still dangerous to bring children to places such as supermarket, eateries […]
Sleeping late, waking up late new norm for children?
KUALA LUMPUR: For the past 50 days or so, Mary’s two children, both primary school pupils, have been getting to bed way past midnight and waking up the next afternoon. This routine of theirs started with the imposition of the movement control order (MCO) on March 18 to check the spread of Covid-19 in the country. […]
Rural parents urged to guide children in studies
KUCHING: Rural parents have been advised to guide their children in their daily school exercises during the movement control order (MCO). Engkilili assemblyman Johnical Rayong Ngipa noted that due to lack of internet facilities in rural areas, it is difficult to conduct online teaching and learning (PdP) in lieu of school classes. As such parents […]
Protecting children against dreaded virus
KUALA LUMPUR: The World Health Organisation recently declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic after taking into consideration the sharp rise in cases worldwide. Over the past two weeks, the focus of the disease’s transmission shifted from China to the rest of the world. Having spread to about 162 countries now, the tally has exceeded 180,000 cases […]
‘Better safe than sorry’
KUCHING: The decision to close all tabika, taska and sekolah tahfiz in Sarawak for two weeks effective today is meant to protect the children from being exposed to the coronavirus. Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said the move was necessary as young children had lower immunity system […]
SAR for missing 3-year-old enters day 8
SRI AMAN: A search and rescue (SAR) operation for a three-year-old Patrick Igih Mohd Taufik who was reported missing at Rapak Baru oil palm plantation here, has entered its eighth day today. According to the State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operation centre, the operation yesterday (Day 7) was divided into two search sectors with […]
‘Raise sexual awareness for all’
KUCHING: Raising sexual awareness should not only be carried out for the children but also the adults. In making the call for more efforts to raise consciousness on sexual abuse, a former senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) Professor Dr Hew Cheng Sim said it was imperative to educate adults on the needs to […]
Special school for special needs children
KUCHING: A total of 107 students, including 10 new ones, began their first day of school at Perkata Special School yesterday. Perkata Special School in Jalan Ridgeway here is a special education school that has been around since 1984 and has students aged between four and 17. New Sarawak Tribune managed to interview several individuals, […]
