Headlines about the escalating conflicts in the Middle East keep reminding me of a biblical passage I'd learned many years ago as a child: "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars ...
Anyone foolishly believing the political silly season was over needed only watch the transport minister's grand parliamentary unveiling of JEEP Phase I to realise, like The Carpenters' oft-played wedding song, we've only just begun.
With the advent of the technological revolution in the sphere of communications, skilled workers in whatever part of the world are now accessible to capital.
In an earlier article this year regarding government planning, I suggested that the administration's strategic plans must have three components: a) specific objectives and targets in line with Vision 2030; b) major strategies and initiatives to achieve...
I take note of the Gleaner editorial of February 20, 2012 which seems to suggest that in my statement to Parliament (Tuesday, February 14, 2012) on the sugar divestment, and my subsequent press release (Thursday, February...
Below is a lightly edited presentation by Edmund Bartlett, opposition spokesman for tourism and travel service development, to the Council of the Americas, in Miami recently.
If there is one thing all of us can agree on, it is that Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins did not stand on ceremony and was notoriously disdainful of custom and tradition. Like the tradition that you must not speak evil of the dead. He repulsively and nauseatingly violated that sacred dictum the very day Michael Manley died...
Information communications technology (ICT) has transformed our lives in significant ways. The following anecdote gives an illustration of the transformation. As a teenager in the 1970s, only the wealthy had a landline. So if we wanted to make a call to the USA, we would go down to Cable & Wireless on a Sunday evening, and join the line of persons wishing to do the same.
Below is a contribution from Lindel Hart, grade four coordinator, and grades one to four teachers at Half-Way Tree Primary School. Half-Way Tree (HWT) was the highest-ranked Greater Kingston primary school (among cohorts of more than 20 students) in the 2011 Grade Four Numeracy Test, notching 83 per cent mastery.
The title of this column might appear to be a crack about Whitney Houston, her well-publicised drug addiction and her ultimate demise, and you are free to interpret it as such. After all, we all tried to make her into much more than what she was - a singer with a beautiful voice.
According to the exalted vision of Jamaica's political managers and technocrats, the year 2030 is the date - if all things go as expected - that the island will have completed the process of transformation from a relatively underdeveloped capitalist country into a developed capitalist country.
Since the publication of my piece titled 'Shifting truth on bauxite' (Gleaner, November 27, 2011), coupled with two subsequent paid announcements by Windalco - regarding the movement of heavy-duty mining equipment from Kirkvine to Port Esquivel - I have been asked on numerous occasions: what's next for Jamaica's bauxite-alumina industry?
Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins, the dropout trainee Anglican priest, is now closer to being able to check his theological reflections against any objective reality of God that might exist or not exist. As humans, we all have theological reflections, and in due course will arrive at Motty's place.
It gave the appearance of a plot by Martin Henry and I when his column, 'Whither agriculture?', and my last column, 'Wanted: development czar for Jamaica', appeared in the In Focus section of The Sunday Gleaner of January 29.
So once again we are at a crossroads regarding the issue of transportation for thousands of students who commute to school. In April 2011, then Education Minister Andrew Holness and Minister of Finance Audley Shaw called for a structured transport system for students subsequent to a motor vehicle accident which claimed the lives of three youngsters.
I remember with vivid detail the pronouncement by the former finance minister when he assured us that Jamaica would be spared the pain of the global financial crisis, so we had nothing to lose sleep about.
Governments worldwide, in recognition of the new mathematics- and science-driven age in which we all live and must compete, have taken critical steps to review their mathematics education programmes to ensure that their citizens are able to participate in, and contribute to, national growth and development.
It was similar to our mother's summoning us sternly as children: "Come, you will have to take your medicine!" Peter Phillips was having his first major press conference as finance and planning minister to deliver the bad news that there was a...
