EDITORIAL - Institutionalised,systemic breaches
It is of some significance, we believe, that Auditor General Adrian Strachan's searing critique of the Ministry of Finance's disregard of its own and the Government's accounting guidelines has been met with general indifference. Non-compliance with and the deliberate bypassing...
Failing education (II)
After my column last week where I reminded that out of the roughly 260 working days in the year, there are only 190 school days, someone pointed out to me that some teachers object to using any of their 70 vacation days to mark test papers. - Peter Espeut
The challenge of the JLP
With just over 1,330,000 voters on the electoral list, less than one million, or fewer than 70 per cent will vote on election day, widely expected in July. For the electorate, the country is deeply divided, hurting badly, on the wrong path... - Delroy Chuck
The Class of 2007
Across the United States and Canada students in high school, college and university are graduating in their thousands. A recent television clip showed President Bush giving the commencement address at Miami Dade College, and Oprah Winfrey speaking at Howard University. - Hilary Robertson-Hickling
NOTE-WORTHY: Many thanks, Cons Marks et al
On Saturday, June 16, while travelling from Kingston to Montego Bay, I ran into car problems and took a detour through Falmouth. I was helped by some gentlemen at the Shell station in the town. Many thanks to all who came to my assistance, but especially to Constable Marks who...
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