Jamaica Gleaner Commentary

Published: Monday Friday | June 19, 2009

EDITORIAL - Does Mr Green want to be Big Brother?
For all its good intention, and sometimes good work, there is the more than occasional habit on the part of the Broadcasting Commission to overreach. This, we hope, is not again the intent of Cordel Green, the agency's executive director, who testified before Parliament's... Read More...

Ad hominem argument
Marketing is important. When you want to sell an unpopular idea, how you package it and present it to the public can make all the difference between success and failure. If you can manage to attach to your campaign a slogan that has such popular ... Read More...

GSAT, first principles and the joy of learning
The Editor, Sir: In philosophy, a first principle is a basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms or postulates... Read More...

NOTE-WORTHY
Speed traps are working - Over the last couple of publications there have been complaints about the police instituting what the complainers call speed traps. Read More...