Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes believes a national parenting programme needs to be introduced to “turn this society around”.He made the suggestion on Monday as he dealt with 17-year-old Serrian Jamali Scott-Fagan who was charged with using insulting language towards a police officer and having a knife in his possession on Hastings Road, a public place, on August 6.The Jackman’s Alley, Orange Hill, St James resident, who said he is a farmer but has ambitions of becoming a rapper, pleaded guilty to the charges.When the Chief Magistrate asked him what he had done to get the necessary education to become a rapper, Scott-Fagan said he had applied to a skills training school.
