Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | June 13, 2004
The case for school managers
THE LOBBY by some principals for specialist plant/operations managers to oversee the administrative management of schools deserves support. Indeed, we note that the Minister of Education, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has given broad backing to the idea. She...
THE MASSIVE backlog of cases in the Gun Court in downtown Kingston is a clear indication that the court is not serving the main purpose for which it was established 28 years ago.
AT THE risk of being redundant, I'd like to point out that the money in the National Housing Trust is for housing. The whole purpose of the mandatory contribution of three per cent by every working person was to provide low-income housing.
IN MAY 1948, Field Marshal Jan Smuts who had been South Africa's Prime Minister since 1939, and his mainly English-speaking United Party, were defeated in General Elections by the race segregationist Nationalist Party. Candidates and members of this...
AN OLD saying goes: When the cat is away the mice will play. In kinder, gentler times this referred to the behaviour of mischievous rodents and cats with nine lives. In rougher circumstances it relates to rapacious rats and a cat with nine tails.
