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The article 'Thwaites emphasises quality over quantity of subjects' in The Gleaner of March 6, 2014 highlights some issues in education that I have been concerned about for some time. One of these is the trend in Caribbean secondary schools to have their students sitting more and more subjects at the CXC/CSEC level...

I wish to respond to the article of Friday, February 28, 2014 captioned 'Contracts commission questions UWI's expertise on mangroves'.

In an editorial on Thursday, March 6, this newspaper reflected the expressed concern by University of the West Indies professor, Anthony Chen, that comments by opinion shapers could lead to xenophobia and attacks on Chinese in this country.

Over time, I've tried to educate readers regarding the folly of needing external validation, of trying to remake yourselves based on somebody else, or pattern your thoughts to align with those residing in weighty tomes.

Carmakers are banking on the fast-growing demand for small SUVs to earn new customers in the United States and help turn around their businesses in Europe's still-fragile market.

The Gleaner recently reported the transportation, works and housing minister, Dr Omar Davies, as having outlined critical steps that will ultimately lead to the signing of a binding agreement with the Chinese company, China Harbour Engineering Company.

As the curtains come down on the fall 2014 collections in the all-important fashion markets of New York, London, Milan, and Paris, global fashion leaders are clear on which designers and models impressed for the season.

Raymond Gabbidon, executive director of the Jamaica Micro Financing Association (JaMFA), is pushing back at the characterisation of the members of the microfinancing sector as 'loan sharks' by former government minister Dr Christopher Tufton.

Doc, please help a worried wife. I urgently need some good advice about my husband. He has just left for England on a three-month work contract. Immediately before he left for the airport, I was checking through his luggage. To my amazement, I found eight packets of Viagra tablets.