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 the Hon Minister of Energy gloating that he was right in predicting oil prices receding to US$80 per barell months ago against the conventional wisdom that it would rise inexorably [...]
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, complex issue in itself) but the conditions which led to the collapse. The Americans and their expert political economists know that unless those conditions which gave rise to the crisis [...]
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 beat who and who said what in a political race that dominated the real issues pales in insignificance, for in the scheme of things, none of it is important. The [...]
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 or new solutions or alternatives to help solve the crisis in the Jamaican education system. I am being very blunt and will not apologize because children of African descent in [...]
“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 minister, Bruce] Golding. This quote from a news paper got me wondering what has the “driver” been doing all the time or has he just woken up and is ready [...]
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 Our outdated education system is fundamentally flawed in the most egregious way. Unlike developed nations which strive to educate the masses in a universal and equitable manner, Jamaican policy intentionally perpetuates inequality and disparate treatment as part [...]
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) Law teacher, I observe that the system is dysfunctional in part because of the undue focus placed on examinations and test-based curricula, as opposed to learning. Accordingly, students in general [...]
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 Professor Devonish but I think they are going about it the wrong way. Being academics they appear to be taking the approach of convincing the doubters of the superiority of [...]
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 as “extorting parents…” He has, by default, called school administrators extortionists and thereby provided unnecessary distraction and fodder for talking-heads. There are many perks associated with the office of Prime Minister [...]
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 possible for such ignorant rantings to find space in [the] newspaper? The author is clearly a stranger to any notions of logic, and moreover makes wild claims about languages in [...]