A year ago, when the education ministry and three high schools in the eastern Jamaica parish of St Thomas signed an agreement to cooperate on initiatives to enhance efficiencies and improve the education outcomes of the institutions, this newspaper...
Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, constituted by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is not going to win the next parliamentary general election. The business of prognostication regarding elections is fraught with danger. This is no science. There is no...
The United States Department of State posted its report on Jamaica's human-rights practices for 2014 and revealed a damning picture on the current state of Jamaica's justice system.The minister of justice, Senator Mark Golding, has received a poor...
The word 'placenta' refers to 'a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord' or, in botany, 'part of the ovary wall to which the ovules are attached'.In...
The end of the long, hot summer signals the start of the academic school year when education takes centre stage once again as tens of thousands of children make the trek back to the classroom.This year will be different for many schools, as...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMShanica Blair
I found so unfortunate the comments made by Education Minister Ronald Thwaites on the heels of National Security Minister Peter Bunting announcing that plans are being put in place to build a new maximum-security prison to the tune of $10 billion....
According to Robert Fuderich, representative of UNICEF, in his message in the introduction to All Hands on Board (A Handbook for School Boards), "Good governance does not simply happen. It is important that we recognise that good governance requires...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMAllan Douglas
Our country is truly going through a difficult period, not only with the escalating crime and violence but also with the conduct of some of our leaders and the state of both political parties. It is all very distressing and dampens the little hope...
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMPeter Espeut
Our family pet dog is in heat again, and our yard is being invaded by every male dog in the neighbourhood looking for only one thing. Panting and drooling, they follow her around, and will be discouraged neither by shouting (from me or their owners...
The biggest sports discussion on now is, undoubtedly, the rather disappointing show by the Sunshine Girls in Australia. The management team and some of the players are clearly rattled by the harsh criticism coming their way.The netballers can take...
Judging by, among other things, his sexist trashing of his colleague People's National Party (PNP) parliamentarian, Lisa Hanna, Dayton Campbell knows more than a thing or two about "raw, vulgar politics".So, he is predictably sensitive when he...
A year or so ago, curious about my heritage, I submitted my DNA for analysis. The results showed my ancestors journeyed across Africa and Eurasia, before finally reaching Jamaica to produce me. This was deduced from 'markers', unique DNA on the Y-...
Recently, Amnesty International, human rights watchdog group, approved a controversial policy to endorse the decriminalisation of the sex trade, thereby rejecting the claims of women's groups who say that it is tantamount to advocating the...
That the new school year will not start against the backdrop of a restive teachers' union is good news. The better news is the acceptance by teachers of the government's offer is its potential contribution to the long-term stability of the Jamaican...
The contempt being fielded at INDECOM is appalling. The reasons for this are ludicrous and reckless. This is how poorly constructed the arguments tend to be.Crime and violence are spiralling out of control again. At the end of June, there were more...
Protesters thronged Brazil's cities on Sunday, demanding the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, narrowly elected to a second term just last October, but not one of them made any reference to the Peter Principle. But if Rousseff were a senior...
There's a legendary scene from the 1974 blaxploitation classic movie, Truck Turner, starring the illustrious Isaac Hayes as the eponymous character. In this particular scene, a bevy of prostitutes are gathered at a cemetery, mourning their pimp, a...
Ask Robert Pickersgill about the management of Jamaica's water resources and he'll likely default to the scramble - although he won't define it that way - by the National Water Commission (NWC) to rehabilitate wells in the Kingston Metropolitan Area...
I ACTUALLY don't have a big problem with beauty pageants. Some bemoan the fact that they objectify women and put them to go up against each other solely on superficial, external attributes.Healthy competition, I think, is great. And in the same way...
Anybody know a bookie taking bets on the next election?I've been searching for one but found only pretend bookmakers in Jamaica. I plan to sell house, car and Old Ball and Chain and wager the proceeds on the People's National Party (PNP) to win.This...
THEEDITOR, Sir:I am anticipating an article from Dr Tamika Benjamin with some comments and analysis of the increased percentage of passes in mathematics.I would like, however, to quickly point out to her and others involved that the time, talk,...
We don't understand why St Aubyn Bartlett, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) politician, felt he ought not to go full throttle at it. For, asking party supporters, other than the well-heeled ones, to fund the JLP is an eminently sensible idea. It is...
Everald Warmington of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) defeated Dennis Jones of the People’s National Party (PNP) in the 2007 general election in Jamaica to win the parliamentary seat for the South West St Catherine constituency. However, in...
There are many going through hardships and facing problems from every direction. Many ask the question, 'Why am I going through all this?' We often go through problems but recognise that they pull out of us the hidden potential we didn't realise was...
When parliamentarians return from the summer break in September, one hopes that Leader of Government Business Phillip Paulwell will schedule the people's business in a direction which will see more time dedicated to fixing social and economic ills...
