Published:Friday | September 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMwayne campbell
The job of a teacher is quite challenging and requires much planning in order to effectively impact the 21st Century learner. The issue of indiscipline in the educationsector continues to plague policymakers as the...
In 1997 when the Reggae Boyz qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France, the then Prime Minister of Jamaica P.J. Patterson, in a surprising move, declared the next day a public holiday. I was among the tens of thousands caught up in the euphoria of...
That graft and kickbacks and influence-peddling have been a customary feature in Jamaican politics has long been suspected. Government willingness to approve obviously environmentally damaging projects, and the haste to regularise egregious...
Dilma Rousseff has been formally ejected as Brazil's president, with more than two years left on terms given to her by more than 54 million voters. The Senate on Wednesday voted 61-20 for her impeachment. Michel Temer, Ms Rousseff's vice president,...
We interpret Paul Burke's "stone in a pigsty" retort to Omar Davies' complaint about his purported political kickback allegations as not only acknowledgement that he made the remarks, but that he is standing by them.In that event, Mr Burke made a...
Sunday's Gleaner reports the treasurer of the People's National Party bemoaning that "information received by the treasury from the potential donors was that contributions had already been made to senior party members for the benefit of the party....
The People's National Party (PNP) arguably facilitated lots of good development during its last term in office, but failed miserably where good governance is concerned. Kudos to the former prime minister, Hon Portia Simpson Miller, and Finance...
As an avid sports fan, I have always been envious of the men and women who've seen first-hand the exploits of the likes of Donald O'Riley Quarrie, Diego Armando Maradona, Pele, Muhammad Ali, Sir Garfield Sobers and Arthur Jones. I'm even envious of...
"Retweet if you nah nuh light." While we waited out the latest islandwide power cut, courtesy of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), those of us on Twitter tittered at the antics of a parody account calling itself @myJPSoffline, a clever takedown of...
After 52 years of war, the guns finally fell silent in Colombia at midnight on Sunday, when permanent ceasefires were proclaimed both by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government.But this only happened after 220,...
The Holness administration, it appears, has all but signed off on a long-standing proposal, reprised two years ago by the former government, to construct a parliament building at the grounds of the 50-acre National Heroes Park in Kingston."We are...
A major strength of Kelly Tomblin, the CEO of Jamaica's monopoly light and power company, is her readiness to engage her customers, even when they are angry and she has little with which to appease them. So, in four years on the job, among her more...
I've always harboured feelings of sardonic superiority (accompanied by supercilious sneers) over those who abuse access to column inches whining about personal commercial travails.Not anymore. The No Water Commission (NWC) has forced me to...
Last week, the commissioner of police made a revelation that made me soil myself. It was a revelation, however, that to me explains a lot about the ineffectiveness of, and corruption in, today's force.He admitted that 46 per cent of recruits this...
The only thing certain about life, is that it will end in death. This is a fact. No matter how invincible you feel, one day the Grim Reaper is going to come for your behind, and whisk you off to wherever he whisks...
We expect that there will be more than a fair bit of mawkish simpering in Jamaica over the disclosure that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, formerly the world's pre-eminent female sprinter, is leaving her MVP track club and her long-time coach, Stephen...
An insensitive twit tweeted a derogatory epitaph about our surprise gold medal winner in the male 100 metres hurdles event on the Lasco Company Twitter account. It cost him his job and left Lasco doing some serious damage control.I know absolutely...
This little island of Jamaica, with its unique race of people, is home to what has become an iconic culture in this epoch. This as a result of the collective greatness of its inhabitants as evinced by our many amazing feats, but also due to our...
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is probably the most powerful interest group in Jamaica. The teaching craft commands much emotional support - much more, I wager, than the police or the private sector - and the teachers are well resourced and...
It has been a long gestation - started during the time of the former national security minister, Peter Bunting, but spoken of long before then - to last week's launch of a pilot in the use of body cameras by Jamaica's police. Hopefully, though, the...
It seems as if Bolt really nailed it! I'm talking, of course, about his anthropological insight into our culture.Because in the wake of all this unnecessary excitement about a little hit-and-run accident in Rio, the Telegraph newspaper here in...
When I saw the subject heading 'Bad news', mi just kiss mi teeth. It must be one of those fraudulent emails from a friend in trouble abroad who desperately needed money. You know the usual incredible story: "I'm in Timbuktu, where I came to view the...
Liberal democracies tend to give rise to multiple political parties. This phenomenon exists because the very nature of liberal democracies is founded on a multiplicity of the views that contend for acceptance.Populations in some democracies tend to...
In Trinidad, in the old days, if you blocked someone's view of an event, you would invariably be asked, "What happen? Youh father is a glassmaker?" My way of dealing with this comment about my transparency or lack of it was to reply rudely, "Nah,...
