After the high drama with Usain Bolt's disqualification from the 100-metre final and setbacks in the early stages of the meet, Jamaica's athletes staged a comeback in the latter days of the World Championships, which concludes this morning.
The pulpit sometimes has a powerful effect on persons who stand in front of it. It may imbue the speaker with a perceived moral authority to point out motes in the eyes of congregants - oblivious to the beam in his own - and invoke the wrath of God on those deemed to have committed abominable acts.
Online feedbackBelow are excerpted comments from www.jamaica-gleaner.com readers in response to yesterday's package on Christopher 'Dudus' Coke's guilty plea.squeal, dudus, squealGangsters, when faced with the prospect of life in prison, will always...
I think there is widespread consensus that Jamaica's education system is broken. Most persons would agree, I believe, that the main problems are: The primary system has failed to produce majority literates by grade six.
Recent pronouncements from a United States educator regarding the licensure of Jamaican teachers are of particular interest to me primarily because they seemed to suggest that this process would not necessarily improve student attainment.
THE BOG Walk gorge, now reopened to traffic, is a section of a historic route cut through the mountains as early as 1770 when the first roads were being carved out in Jamaica.It remains the A1 route for traffic from Kingston to the central north coast...
THE 'BAWLING' by many Jamaicans recently about the treatment meted out to them by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) reminds us of the National Transformation Programme's (NTP) transformational concept, 'Every Citizen A Peacemaker'...
LENVAS COLE, the vice-principal of Balaclava High School in St Elizabeth, misses the point.It is not enough, he must be made to understand, to parade the one or two students who may gain eight passes...
A POLITICAL analyst and researcher posited recently that Jamaican political history - and the culture of tribalism it spawned where our political tribes developed a system of gangland 'constituencies' that had a politics, a leadership structure and a...
One of the conclusions that may be reasonably drawn from the theory of multiple intelligence is that the way we measure learning outcomes in the education system may be fundamentally flawed.
The simplicity of spirituality is amazing.At its core, our redemption requires very little of us. Take Christianity, for example: According to the Bible, all that is required for our salvation....
For all the shock and frustration felt by Jamaicans and his multitude of fans across the globe, no one is likely to be as disappointed, and even angry, as Usain Bolt over his eviction, on Sunday, from the final of the men's 100 metres race at the IAAF...
Below is excerpted feedback from online readers to The Gavel of Monday, August 29, titled 'Please, Shaw, no three-card trick'.confidence in finance ministerI trust Audley Shaw...
The education-centred articles published in The Sunday Gleaner of August 28 really make for interesting reading. I agree wholeheartedly that solid school leadership from principals can provide some improvement to the educational process...
After my column 'The Heifer Rule' was published last Tuesday, an online reader (screen name Carlton Reynolds) posted the following comment: "I may be dim-witted, but I can't seem to find the punchline in the heifer joke!"Carlton, you're in good company...
It is time for the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) government to do some plain speaking about its valuable pieces of previously privately held Jamaican assets that have ostensibly fallen into its hands, which are important to production and jobs...
Principals are CEOs of their institutions and must be measured based on performance. Any good manager in the private sector knows that what gets measured does, indeed, get attention...
Mr Daryl Vaz, the minister with responsibility for information, made a useful suggestion last week when he urged an early start to debates between political leaders, rather than leaving such discourse to be drowned out in the cut and thrust of a fully...
"Do you know it is vogue to be an atheist on university campuses? Do you know that every young person finds it interesting, modern and attractive when a professor or student...
