Commentary

At the risk of being dubbed a mongrel dawg, I would like to reprise my views on the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) often expressed in this column over the last 20-odd years.

AFTER SPEAKING with quite a few young ladies in the custody of the Depart-ment of Correctional Services and a few officers who worked with them, I learnt something new about the term 'uncontrollable'.I was a bit confused...

However Doran Dixon's fight with the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is resolved, we expect nothing large or transformational from the teachers union.For, on the evidence, like Mr Dixon, those who are now in the race for the association's presidency...

This newspaper will withhold, until the court has ruled, broader comment on the free-speech case brought by a gay-rights activist against three Jamaican television stations which refused to broadcast, for pay, an ad promoting tolerance of homosexuals.

The Jamaica Teachers' Association's (JTA) constitution is not an easy document to get hold of.It is not posted on the JTA's website...

I am deeply distressed that the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), or more correctly, the Council of Presidents of the Association, has taken steps to bar Mr Doran Dixon from running for the presidency of the association.The decision was taken...

Last week's Sunday Gleaner featured the story 'Principals, teachers failing students'. In it, Senior Gleaner Writer Erica Virtue outlined some of the negative revelations of the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) for the period September 2011 to March 2012.

Early last week, I happened upon a grave-digging in northern Clarendon.As you might know, this is often a big event in rural Jamaica. The community comes out to cook, share drinks and engage in general merriment as the grave is dug and the vault constructed.

We won't speculate what other influence Mr Paul Adams may have been under, except that he may have been intoxicated by the sound of his own voice.But the remarks delivered to teachers last Thursday night by the principal of the Herbert Morrison...

Should there have been need of further evidence that the Caribbean is important to China's global political and economic strategy, we need look no further than Trinidad & Tobago this weekend.

"Hold down an tek weh." That's exactly what it is. Protected lands on Long Mountain that, by law, should remain virgin territory for the benefit of all Jamaicans, for generations to come, have been captured and are about to be deflowered by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ).

Every economic enterprise is organised to provide goods and services. They have identified a need and seek to fill the expectation of those they wish to severe.