Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Friday | April 3, 2009
EDITORIAL - Golding on to something, but ...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is clearly on to something, even if the idea needs further debate and refinement, with his intervention in Parliament this week on a planned overhaul of the criteria for lending by the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB)... Read More...
Light conquers darkness
Two Saturdays ago - March 21 - was the Vernal Equinox, one of only two days in the year when daylight hours and night-time hours are of exactly equal duration. That event is a natural marker for two great world religions - Judaism and Christianity... Read More...
Abusing school-based assessment projects
Recently, a number of educators have been heard bewailing the fact that so many pupils in primary and prep schools are not fortunate enough to have parents helping them with their homework. Further investigation will reveal that the lucky ones have poor... Read More...
NOTE-WORTHY
Xenophobia alive - Several weeks ago, the government of Antigua began an immigration cleansing process. This process was triggered by their narrow victory in the recent elections. The current government, the UPP, has publicly blamed 'Jamaicans ... Read More...
