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...
Jamaica recently lost two indigenous icons. The first to go was Dudley Joseph Thompson, who left us after 95 years of seminal contribution to his country and the world
The continued operation of all four alumina plants in Jamaica, including even the most efficient, CAW, depends on the industry having a long-term source of competitive energy, as well as resolving certain bauxite-reserve issues.
Try walking naked down Main Street or having sex in Town Square in a country that allows you to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco and to have sex with as many partners as you wish, providing you don't marry more than one of them and none of them is under...
The Church should have no privileged status in this society. There should be no automatic deference to the Church, no unquestioning authority invested in it.
Martin Henry's piece in last Sunday's Gleaner titled 'Whither agriculture?' makes interesting reading. I commend him for his usual analytical approach to critical subject matters of national importance.
In the late 1990s, then Opposition Spokesman on Finance Audley Shaw made the revelation that the head of the National Investment Bank of Jamaica was paid an annual salary of J$7 million, setting in motion the now-infamous 'Fat Cat' salary scandal.
Recently on Twitter, one of my followers, in despair and frustration at his malfunctioning Internet connection, wrote: "My Internet moving like a b-yman [gay]."
An open letter to my member of parliament, Julian Robinson (no relation):Dear Julian,Although I didn't vote for you (or for anyone else) in the recent general election, the bad news for you is enough voters did that you're now my MP.
