An online safety and digital literacy programme has been relaunched in public schools by the Ministry of Education.

Cybertips workshops were delivered at East End Primary School and Paget Primary School this month.

Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said there could be no more fitting time for the scheme to return, with October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

He said: “As children go online at younger ages than ever before, and as scams, social media pressures and artificial intelligence reshape the digital world they are growing up in, Bermuda chose this month to bring back the programme that taught a generation to think before they click.”

Mr Rabain added: “Cybertips has supported Bermuda’s community with internet safety education for nearly 20 years.

“The refreshed programme offers free, 45-minute interactive sessions for students from P1 through S4, along with whole-school assemblies, covering cyberbullying, privacy, social media, scams, digital footprints, artificial intelligence and healthy technology use.”

The new website is the programme’s central hub. It offers downloadable tip sheets for students at every level, parents, educators and seniors, as well as an anonymous reporting tool that gives young people and adults a safe way to report online concerns without giving their name.

Teachers can use the site to register their classes for workshops, while the platform also features a digital hygiene calculator, the ThreatSphere interactive cyber-risk map and guidance on reporting cybercrime.