In Focus

This year's writing of the Grade Six Achievement Test went by last Thursday and Friday and 44,000 'traumatised' 11-year-olds - and their parents - can breathe again, at least until results time in June. More students registered than actually took the test.

Daniel Thwaites, in a column titled 'The Christian root of human rights' (Gleaner, March 13, 2012), offers an interesting, but somewhat flawed critique of my presentation at a recently held Public Law forum at the Norman Manley Law School.

Some nation states have been fairly successful in promoting the major planks of women's sexual health and reproductive rights.

Will you condemn the just and mighty One?

In this October 12, 2010 file photo, Israeli soldiers walk next to the tank Merkava 'Mark 4' as they take part in a large military exercise at the Shizafon Armored Corps Training Base in the Arava desert, southern Israel.

In an article published in The Sunday Gleaner of March 4, 2012, the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) responded to my article published the previous week on problems afflicting the manufacturing sector. While I agree with the association that manufacturing in Jamaica is not dead, the sector suffers from unrealised potential because of insufficient leadership, governance, strategy and accountability.

In he flew on the iron bird and travelled in the covered chariots. This prince, the heir of King Arthur's legacy, wielded no Excalibur, the magic sword, but into the land of the Mercury, the god of speed with wings on his feet, did he venture.

The main design concepts of the Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) on Tax Reform proposals, carefully analysed and modelled over nine months, indicate what we believe to be the formula for sustainable growth, while protecting the vulnerable in our society.

Well, however much that tiny logo on Harry's shirt earned Puma, it cannot be close to the windfall that big Jamaica on his chest brought to this country. No doubt the picture and video of King Usain and the Prince doing 'the arrow' will also be a poster child for the 2012 London Olympics.

Four and a half years ago, I proposed the creation of a 'teacher assistant' post in all public schools with enrolment exceeding 500 students.

The molehill of the Chris Gayle-West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) brouhaha has somehow managed to achieve mountainous proportions.

Michael Witter, Guest Columnist

There is a lot the Government can do to ease the pressure of the economic hard times on the people.