FOLLOWING THE publication of the statistics produced by think tank Educatejamaica.org, based on the 2013 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), many are calling for a revamp of all aspects of our...
There are few things in life more satisfying than tracin' smaddy off. Releasing the dark emotions that are impossible to eliminate, but which civility ordinarily requires us to contain, can be oddly satisfying.
The devil, they say, is in the details. In that regard, we await the specifics of the legislative amendments promised by the justice minister, Mark Golding, to decriminalise the use of marijuana, or, as we call it in Jamaica, ganja.
The report on the CSEC examinations for the academic year 2013 is out. EducateJamaica has released the data on 161 government high schools in the country. The review of the data makes for a troubling conclusion.
There's a very vulnerable group of women who don't seem to be on the agenda of Dr Carolyn Gomes and her Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (CVC) Coalition.
Any doubt that the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has lost its way and has become an unaccountable and maverick organisation has been utterly removed. The strategy of taking a reasonable approach in the matters relating to the education of Jamaica's children has been abandoned by the JTA.
About 10 years ago, Tallpree, a calypso singer from Grenada, became popular in Trinidad because of a song in which he avows a preference for female senior citizens.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the West Indies team didn't want the first Test to last until yesterday's final day because, like most of us, they wanted to watch yesterday's opening World Cup game between Brazil and Croatia...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) wishes to clarify statements made recently in The Gleaner and the Jamaica Observer following a boat tour arranged by the Caribbean Maritime Institute on Sunday, June 8....
There is at least one member of parliament (MP) who is confused about his job description.Damion Crawford, MP for East Rural St Andrew, wants the authority and the power to determine which roads in his constituency get fixed...
The focus has been on the part of Sandrea Falconer's statement about the Cabinet's instruction to government companies and public bodies that they spend less on the production of their annual accounts.So, we expect the gloss to be out, as well as the...
On April 4, 2014, Carolyn Gomes, of Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, wrote a threatening letter to E. Nigel Harris, vice-chancellor of UWI, calling for the removal of Brendan Bain as leader of CHART...
One hundred and twenty schools across the island are wasting taxpayers' money.That's really what the recently published Educate Jamaica (educatejamaica.org) secondary school ranking, based on the 2013 CSEC passes, shows.
THE EDITOR, Sir:Your editorial yesterday (June 10), 'Call in the receivers, Mr Thwaites', is correct in highlighting deficiencies in the educational system, but wrong in suggesting a "seeming absence of a robust initiative for confronting the issue".We,...
He was a great guy. That's what everyone told him and that's what he had come to believe. So the pressure to maintain his great-guy status was immense, germinating as it did from people's expectation and opinion of him, in addition to his own sense of himself.
It may have expired by now, but over the past several days, the police in the downtown/western Kingston area of the Jamaican capital have been engaged in an operation they call Resilience 3.
This country has a problem. A major problem - too many crashes on our roads, resulting in far too many people dying, as a result of road traffic injuries (RTI).
Cancel the flights and contracts. Bulldoze the stadiums, strip the uniforms and send home the players. Take away absolutely everything that makes the sport the sport, and there would still be football in Sao Paulo tomorrow....
THE EDITOR, Sir:An article published in The Gleaner on June 6, 2014 titled 'Traffic fine hike - Speeding ticket charges may race by up to 300%' suggests that traffic fines will be ridiculously increased!The article posits that some fines will be as high...
It appears my brief, 'colourful' career as a columnist is over (sob). On April 23, in a display of nit-picking of which any boll weevil would be proud ...
THE EDITOR, Sir:It is quite telling that in Bruce Golding's sudden re-emergence as paragon of moral virtue, czar of critical thinking, and the voice of reason in this latest episode of the culture wars, he has not realised the significance of the season...
