EDITORIALS - UTech's investment in sport development
A FORTNIGHT ago, the University of Technology (UTech) announced its need for $65 million to upgrade its sports facilities to world-class standards. The university hopes to get professional help to drive the effort. While we understand that Jamaican firms and individuals...
Goodbye, Lanny Reynolds
Lanny Reynolds, who died last week, aged 73, was one of those unassuming, easy-going and self-effacing persons whom it is easy to underestimate.And he perhaps liked it this way. And he perhaps liked it this way. For beyond that persona was a sharp, capable and quietly tough...
Criminal deportees: What we know and don't know
Ever since the United States (US), and later Great Britain, began repatriating Jamai-cans convicted of crimes they committed overseas, leaders of government, national security officials and the local media have been ascribing to them blame ...Bernard Headley
Thanks and congrats to UWI
We have a tendency to take things for granted. Many don't appreciate the value of our country, environment, loved ones, basic possessions, health and schooling. Of all our 'assets', the only thing that can't be taken from us is our education. - Garth Rattray
NOTE-WORTHY
Native, not Red - I have never before found it necessary to react to language used in The Gleaner. But, as a Jamaican who has lived in Canada for many years, I am surprised to read a reference to Nurse Sybil Evans working among 'Red Indians'....
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