CORAL SPRING, Trelawny — Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon has floated the possibility of legal action being added to the toolkit in the fight against truancy.

According to Morris Dixon, of particular concern is business places which entertain children during school hours.

“I’ve started to talk to some of our mayors, because we’re going to have to go into these business establishments and take our children out and send them to school. We have to also consider whether or not there are charges, because we are assisting with the truancy of minors. There are lots of conversations we have to have; and I don’t think we’ve been having those conversations in the national sphere,” said Morris Dixon on Tuesday, during the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information Region Six Principals’ Retreat at Ocean Coral Spring in Trelawny.