Broadcasting Commission member, Claude Robinson, wants parents to monitor the electronic media too and ensure proper supervision of what their children are exposed to.

Speaking at a forum at the Vesalles Hotel, May Pen, Clarendon, last Wednesday, Robinson said while the commission will enforce regulations to ensure that adult entertainment is not aired during hours when children are listening, parents must play their part and be aware of what their children watch and listen to.

"As citizens, parents, you have to take greater responsibility for what you see and hear. You have to choose what your children watch. If you make a subscription for cable, you have to insist that you get the devices to monitor the channels so that adult channels are adult channels. The children are smart, but you have to act as parents," Robinson said.

He also said that the commission had put up for discussion, and legislation is to be drafted, to penalise persons engaged in collecting payment from artistes and record producers to play their music on radio (payola).

"It is corruption, and if something is corrupted and we do nothing about it, then what does that mean? It means that we are condoning it. So for those two reasons, it is distorting the development of the industry and the fact that it is a corrupted practice. We have signalled that we want to do something about it, and the proposal for discussion is to make it a criminal offence punishable by fines as high as $5 million," he stated.