Nadine Molloy might, after all, turn out to be a good and transformative leader of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA).At least, after frittering valuable months contriving excuses in defence of incompetence, laziness and lack of accountability...
Below are excerpts from comments of our online readers in reaction to yesterday's lead story, titled 'Boost quality: JTA head urges teachers to do better'.remove the lazy onesI hear the usual gripers griping - JTA and all.
Back in Wonderland, another mad tea party was convened.But, this time, no tea. No Alice. No March Hare (Bruce was on the loose!). And no Mad Hatter (still sulking after his whipping by the Young Turk)....
In our modern vernacular, 'wicked' has two meanings. It usually means 'evil', 'cruel', 'terrible' or 'disgusting'; but it is also the slang term for 'very good', 'great', 'magnificent' or 'wonderful'.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by online readers at www.jamaica-gleanerjm.com reacting to 'Forbidden! Media blocked from 'Follow the Star' watchnight service'...
The auditor general, Mrs Pamela Monroe Ellis, recently conducted an analysis into the operations of the National Environment Planning Agency (NEPA) and identified a number of weaknesses...
There has been, surprisingly, no public reaction by either Jamaica or the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to developments in the West African country of Cte d'Ivoire where the president, Laurent Gbagbo, continues to cling to power after an election that...
New Year's messages from public officials tend to be a sickly mix of sentimentality and platitudes, from which the one for 2011 by Police Commissioner Owen Ellington to his members does not completely escape.
The debate as to whether the National Education Inspectorate's Report should be made public rages on. The question we should all be answering is: Are all stakeholders in edu-cation working together to ensure that our education system is overhauled to become effective in training our youth for the 21st century?
On December 21, 2010, Parliament learned of a seismic shift in Government's position on the subject of Privy Council appeals. It came with a subtly executed political coup d'etat that caught the Opposition flat footed.
On Monday, December 6, The Gleaner published a story, 'English tests trip up university students'. On December 9, the Daily Observer published a story, 'Bad News for Grade 4 Literacy'. There is a link between the two stories.
Is the public getting value for money? Raising the price of commodity is not the only or even the best way to increase the viability of the National Water Commission. For Mr E.G. Hunter to confess that he had not...
Some people, especially we in the Caribbean, call the late evening of December 31, 'Old Year's Night' and others 'New Year's Eve'. I always liked Old Year's Night as in my youth it was the one night we were allowed to play outside until it was time to hear the church bells ring in the new year...
Unfortunately for Jamaica, bold ideas, courage, respect and integrity were in short supply in 2010.Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his Cabinet colleagues have emerged from the past year battered by the weight of...
If Prime Minister Bruce Golding is given to New Year's resolutions, our suggestion is that his for 2011 - and the rest of his time in Government - be a rigid focus on job creation and policies to enhance the competitiveness of the Jamaican economy.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online by readers at www.jamaica-gleaner.com reacting to yesterday's lead story, 'Commish shakes 'em up - Senior cops face wide-scale transfers for 2011'.Something is fundamentally...
Today, we remember the Sam Sharpe-led Baptist War which occurred late December some 169 years ago (1831).And it is important to have an accurate biography of Sharpe and what he did and what was his motivation.
There are a number of unresolved matters in 2010 that require the Golding administration's urgent attention if the prime minister is serious about rebuilding public confidence in the country's political process and the institutions of the state.Among...
'Ars Longa, vita Brevis' (art is long, life is short).'Ars Longa, vita Brevis' (art is long, life is short). A medieval poet, speaking of the craft of writing poetry, translated it, "Life is so short, the craft (takes) so long to learn."
Onstage during the 1955 Tercentenary Celebrations in Jamaica, I dropped the ball.I had been given the mammoth task of reciting a poem, 'Augustus Was a Chubby Lad'. It was a soppy tale of a little boy who refused to eat his soup...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The latter years of the life of Carlos Andrés Pérez were, at least inside Venezuela, controversial and chequered. During his last presidency, Pérez faced popular street protests against economic austerity; survived two coups...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by readers online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com reacting to yesterday's lead story, 'Feeding the down and out'.God bless the Downers May Father God's blessings be bestowed upon the Downer...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WE DO not know the order of the agenda for the January 5-7 meeting in Kingston of officials from Haiti and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to advance Haiti's post-earthquake recovery .But our desire is that concentration should be...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
IT HAS become part of everyone's vocabulary and, predictably, the world will be talking about WikiLeaks - the secret-spilling website run by the Sunshine Press - for many months to come...
