Category: Letters
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Watch Out Driva – An Open Letter to PM Golding
Dear Mr Golding: All the best as you steer the bus of state as “de Driva”. It is with much consternation that I now hear Continue reading
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Financial Crisis – Check-mate USA
The real, critically perplexing issue for the US government and its bailout (or rescue) is not the bailout as such (although it is a major, Continue reading
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Enough is Enough!
There are no words that I can find to describe how I feel about the murder of 11-year-old Ananda Dean. All the news about who Continue reading
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A Defence of Merit Pay – Teachers’ Skills Quality is what Matters Most
Dear Antonn, I find your article limited in factual basis and biased towards un-informed common thinking that resists change. Further, you have presented no real Continue reading
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Jamaicans, running scared and running out of time
“We have a crime problem that’s the second highest in the world and so we need a strong, decisive national security strategy,” said [Jamaica’s prime Continue reading
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Educating for Inequality
A quality system for the mass education of the population is the most important requirement for national development. Our outdated education system is fundamentally flawed Continue reading
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Wanted: Education for Development and Progress
I write in reference to the standard of the secondary education system in Jamaica. As a university lecturer, and former CAPE (Caribbean Advanced Proificiency Examination) Continue reading
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Better Approach to Patois Issue
Can I express my disappointment with members of the Jamaican Language lobby group? I appreciate the scholarship and passion of people like Kadene Porter and Continue reading
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Prime Minister Golding Should Offer Unqualified Apology to Principals
Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding equated the action of school principals who have proposed and/or implemented what many consider “exorbitant” auxiliary/supplemental or development fees Continue reading
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Your Take on Jamaican Creole A Farrago of Nonsense, Mr Franklin
I read the ‘article’ by Franklin Johnston which appeared on the 31st July in the Jamaica Observer with mounting horror and incredulity. How is it Continue reading