Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
Published: Monday Sunday | December 28, 2008
Where is the plan? Jamaica colonising itself
The Gleaner has underscored in recent editorials, and using 2007 as a point of reference, the preponderance of Jamaican University of the West Indies (UWI) graduates in the humanities and education (32 per cent ), social sciences (42 per cent), medicine (14 per cent), as well as in pure, applied and natural sciences (10 per cent).
Christmas and life's meaning
Despite the vaunted sophistication and intellectual high-mindedness of the modern world, particularly of the West, it is still a festival with religious roots which has this enormous and irresistible force to pull us together.
Middle class crisis in '09
There was an old model of development, not yet vanquished but much discredited. There were three parts to it. One was the 'trickle down' part that belonged mainly to economic thinking. It said that if you gave enough incentives and privileges to the wealthiest people they would invest their money and build factories, farms, and services..
Other rivers to cross
A search of the various encyclopedias in the many search engines on the Internet defines buggery in line with the Concise Oxford Dictionary. In all these sources, buggery is equated with sodomy, which has its meaning in the biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra, based on the prevalence of homosexuality in those societies.
Obama: tapping the consensus stream
It will be a very long time indeed before the euphoria surrounding the elevation of an African American to the most powerful position on the planet subsides. And, whether his presidency meets with success (and who is there among us that would not wish him success?), it has to be acknowledged that his inauguration in January will be a momentous occasion.
Gomes, JFJ in spotlight
The following is an extract of an interview with Dr Carolyn Gomes, executive director of Jamaicans for Justice and recipient of the United Nations Human Rights Award, conducted by Robin Lim Lumsden.