In an article titled 'Tessanne-mania is a national embarrassment', Gleaner online columnist Keiran King wrote on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, inter alia:
The verdict has been read: Rural, government-operated primary schools offer inferior-quality preparation for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), when compared to urban, private preparatory schools.
The attitude of so-called Christians towards matters of sex is usually accompanied by an irrational hostility, and resides in a never-never land somewhere between hypocrisy and bigotry.
Ruel Reid's non-aversion to a two-child state policy, which has outraged so many, really comes from his non-recognition of an issue now capturing international attention: inequality.
Opposition Senator Ruel Reid has received an avalanche of criticism regarding his call for a mandatory policy bonding Jamaicans (males and females) to have no more than two children for at least the next 10 years...
As the 'economy vs environment' debate raged over the proposed US$1.5b logistics hub proposed to be built at Goat Islands, Smith Warner International Ltd had a unique opportunity to explore site options for the project in the form of four Master of Engineering students from the Technical University of Delft in Holland.
The lead headline in last Monday's Gleaner was 'Cold case freeze - Thousands of unsolved murders are decades old'. A cold case is one that hasn't been solved and in which police investigation is no longer active.
Last Tuesday, I exposed the lack of reason contained in the January 26 Sunday Gleaner editorial supporting conclusions drawn from a flawed police-sponsored survey to the effect that some schools create criminals.
What works best in education? What would we need to do to develop a world-class educational system? We could start by reading the New York Times best-seller, The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way by Time magazine journalist and think tank fellow, Amanda Ripley.
This morning, in 1925, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, still the greatest black man to walk earth, after Jesus (who was also black), woke up to his first day in federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia. He was convicted for what other Jamaicans of notoriety have done, more recently, to bring the country into disrepute.
Work, work, work. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, on the occasion of a media interview marking her 40th year in representational politics, said she has no plans to reshuffle her hard-working Cabinet.
Damion Crawford's debate with me in these pages should be studied as a model of civil, respectful and intellectually rigorous discourse, in an environment characterised all too frequently by crassness, incivility and imbecility.
This article is contributed by the Caribbean Leadership Re-Imagination Initiative at The University of the West Indies. The Initiative is chaired by Dr Canute Thompson, one of the co-founders.
"Pickney dem now-adays naav no behaviah!" The hysteria surrounding the young high-school girls reportedly involved in a sexually explicit video has led to a range of remarks from surprisingly outraged commentators.
It was an absolute delight to read the police response to the criticisms, scholarly and otherwise, levelled against its study, Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates in Jamaica.
I have viewed with interest the developments surrounding the recent announcement by Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites concerning intervention in more than 50 schools as a measure to ameliorate crime.
This is a contribution from The ESL Blogs produced by Environmental Solutions Ltd, a Kingston-based environmental management consultancy founded in April 1991Several factors contribute to poor indoor air quality, including inadequate ventilation,...
