Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Thursday | August 27, 2009
EDITORIAL - Hold the celebration over grade four results
The news of this year's three percentage point improvement in the mastery of the literacy test by grade four students of government schools is, of course, welcome. But this is no cause for celebratory whooping and hollering by teachers and their union... Read More...
Brilliant Bolt: Beijing to Berlin
FROM THE 2008 Beijing Olympics to the recent 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt has been absolutely brilliant, collecting three gold medals in each championship with five world records and one championship record. Brilliant Bolt holds... Read More...
Partisan politics and crime control
NATIONAL SECURITY ministers have always been held captive to the passing theories of establishment crime control planners and anecdotal evidence of the police high command. These range from ganja during the 1940s to early '70s. Invalidated police statistics was the catalyst... Read More...
Japan: not an election, a revolution
SOME YEARS ago, a political science professor at a Japanese university told me that he reckoned you could fit everybody who counted in Japan into one room. There are about 400 of them, so it would have to be a ballroom. All but a couple would be men, of course... Read More...
