The curtain has come down on the 2018 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), bringing to a close its 19-year run, and signalling a new era of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) in 2019. The proposed PEP, a new and exciting paradigm in our educational...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is correct that there is an attitude among Jamaicans that nothing should be spent on Government. They equate it with the comfort for politicians who, generally, they don't trust and believe line their pockets....
There is a point in the life of a business when it is regarded to have achieved what is called critical mass, meaning a superlative competitive size or stature.In a very short time span, Sagicor Jamaica Life Insurance Company expanded its investment...
Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and the European Union (EU) have gathered this week in Lome, Togo, for the 107th ACP Council and 43rd Joint ACP-EU Council meetings. Jamaica will be chair and co-chair of these meetings,...
Gino Jennings, the fire-and-brimstone, black American fundamentalist preacher with a seemingly faithful congregation in Jamaica, clearly has a free-speech right to characterise as whores women who wear make-up and other adornments.And the women and...
It's not unusual for Mr Vegas and I to have a difference of opinion. I think he's an attention junkie, always injecting himself into the next big story - unnecessarily.All Sunday, the hot topic was the showdown that ensued at YMCA between Vegas...
To social conservatives and commissars of religious fundamentalism who would expropriate a woman's right to her body, Ireland's vote last week to overturn that country's constitutionally sanctioned, near-universal ban of abortion was likely to have...
There is no such thing in life as a permanent political enemy. The bitterest of foes, fiercest of rivals, spaced across party lines or split within the same party, almost always find unity and sameness of purpose whenever the politics demands that...
Every now and then, a celebrity is accused of sexual assault or rape, and in addition to the primary accuser, others will come forward and speak of similar assaults by the perpetrator years ago that were not...
Maybe it is the lawyer in him, but Delroy Chuck, the justice minister, doesn't usually speak with precision, as was the case last week when he talked in Parliament about the planned recruitment of judges. Vacancies, he said, "should be filled as...
The mess at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) is not new. Opened in 1974, it is a Type A, 10-floor, 460-bed facility housing a variety of specialist services. Years of neglect along with a chronic failure to perform repairs and upkeep have led to...
The yearly angst about the funding of college and university education is happening again. Promising students on the verge of graduation with fee money owing, are unable to sit final exams. Thousands more, leaving high school next month, aspiring to...
Nine thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six. This is the number of Jamaicans currently receiving life-saving treatment for HIV/AIDS thanks to the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR, in partnership with...
When thinking critically about aborting or terminating a pregnancy, one needs to ask and attempt to answer a few fundamental questions prior to moving toward a tentative or final informed decision.The most central one, in my view, is dealt with here...
Newspapers in the United States have reported an entertaining story about the Publix supermarket in Charleston, South Carolina, that refused to decorate a graduation cake with the word cum. And it's certainly not fake news. The politically correct...
Mia Mottley, who has become Barbados' first female prime minister after her party's landslide win in Thursday's general election, has, on the domestic front, a difficult job ahead of her: that of fixing the economy. That will require courage and...
Because of the near certainty of misinterpretation in what I'm about to discuss, I want to point out that my editor occasionally goads me into writing about a news story by forwarding it to me with a provocative comment. The implication, of course,...
I would like to support the position taken by Peter Espeut and others about the decision to locate the new Parliament building at Heroes Park.When I heard of this plan to build a new Parliament building, I envisioned it being located on lands...
We believe G.C. Foster College lecturer Dwight Angus when he suggests that the institution is capable of lifting Jamaica's football to greater heights, in similar fashion to the success it has achieved in track and field.Now in its 38th year, the St...
If there was ever research done to reveal the impact of the Revised Primary Curriculum and the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) on the outcomes of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, I would certainly like to see...
The call by former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to the trade union movement to join the cause for compensation from Britain for the crime and mess they left here in the wake of unshackling the enslaved on August 1, 1838, is timely and welcome.The...
A young student was asked to use the word 'cliche' in a sentence. She wrote, "Father came home from work with a cliche on his face." When the teacher demanded an explanation, she said that she had checked it in the dictionary, and the word 'cliche'...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Less than 24 hours after she led her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to victory in the May 24 general election, Mia Amor Mottley, 52, was sworn in as Barbados' eighth prime minister on Friday, joining a handful of...
The issue is not whether we need a new Parliament building. Anyone who has been inside Gordon House knows how inadequate it isfor members of parliament, senators, staff, visitors, and the media. The question is where should it be located, and how...
People who appreciate the complexities of international negotiations will hardly be surprised at the collapse of the planned summit between America's Donald Trump and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.They had intended to talk about the...
