Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Sunday | October 4, 2009
SLIPPERY SLOPE - 50% of Grade 11 students leave school uncertified
MORE THAN half of the students who left secondary school last year in Jamaica have no subjects and no skills. This is a mammoth problem facing Education Minister Andrew Holness who says it is "something the entire nation should be worried about". Read More...
Tight lips cripple crime-fight effort
THIS old and popular Bible verse written by King Solomon seems to have immense credence for many Jamaicans who have adopted a culture of silence: "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." Proverbs 13:3 (KJV) Read More...
Six Tech - Education ministry pondering programme to save failing students
Struggling to deal with the problem of hundreds of students leaving secondary schools each year with no qualifications, the education ministry is considering the introduction of a technical sixth form at mainly non-traditional high schools. Read More...
'You have given us hope' - GG tells athletes during thanksgiving service
THE CELEBRATION of Jamaica's superlative performance in Berlin continued yesterday with one religious leader urging Jamaicans to look to the athletes for inspiration. Read More...
Police: 'We need your help'
ONE OF the touted foreign cops brought in to fight crime and improve the image of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has admitted that a wide gulf remains between the law-enforcement agencies and most Jamaicans. Read More...
POCA: The sleeping giant awakes
Less than three years after the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) was passed into law, criminals are beginning to feel its bite. Local authorities have already used the legislation to wrest close to half of a billion dollars in cash out of the hands of wrongdoers. Read More...
Hit them where it hurts! Former national security minister urges Government to utilise the powers of the POCA to strip high-profiling criminals of their wealth
Former Minister of National Security, Dr Peter Phillips, is urging the government to launch a systematic campaign to identify the major players in organised crime in the country, drag them before the courts and strip them of their wealth. Read More...
'Debt financing undermines education'
WINSTON ADAMS, executive chairman of the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), is calling on the government to find the money to finance private tertiary institutions. According to Adams, debt financing has undermined investment in education in the last 30 years. Read More...
Jobless in the global village
Unemployment is rising around the world as the recession leaves few corners untouched - but sharp differences remain between companies directly hit by financial or housing-market collapses and those that have deliberately protected jobs with expensive measures - including subsidising shorter working weeks. Read More...
