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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Sunday | December 11, 2005

Lowering educational standards
It is ironic that whenever quality problems arise in Jamaica's public education system, instead of attempting to raise the bar to an acceptable level, the powers that be instinctively lower standards to compromise with mediocrity. This rot set in when...

Exposing the myth about deportees
Jamaicans have a well-established reputation as a migrant people. Starting with migration to Central America to seek work... -Edward Seaga


Privy Council angers Government ... again
Adviser slams 'bogus' Evon Smith judgement

The Government is likely to further amend the Offences Against the Person Act to nullify the effect of a recent ruling by the United Kingdom-based Privy Council ... - Moxam


What's wrong with Jamaica, PJ?
This is a totally ridiculous country. People are without work, five or more are murdered every day, yet the official end of the Christmas term in the national budget was taken up.. -Dawn Ritch


Paying a 'death' to black people
"I'll be black!" Arnold Schwarznegger said something like that in one of his movies. Though he is Austrian-American and white, the 'schwartz' means black in German and 'negger' is self-explanatory... - Orville W. Taylor


The redundancy red herring
After reading Aubyn Hill's column about 'redundancy laws' last Wednesday, I reflected on a report in The Gleaner of February 9... - Lambert Brown















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