Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | November 27, 2003
Illiterate taxi drivers
WARNINGS THAT the Jamaican workforce is suffering from a severe literacy deficit have been reinforced by news that some 17 per cent of the membership of the Taxi Drivers Association of Jamaica cannot read.
CO-ORDINATED BOMB attacks on Turkish synagogues last week suggest that a new front may have opened in the war on terror. The attackers' motives and identities remain murky. - John Rapley
SO SORRY I missed the Annual National S&T Conference, sponsored by the Scientific Research Council, last week. Where duty calls... This was the first total miss in 17 years of conferences. - Martin Henry
