Good news for early childhood education
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) has introduced a post-graduate course in Early Childhood Development leading to a master's degree. This project, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to the tune of $48 million, is good news for...
PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Who will succeed PJ?
COME AUGUST 6, 2004, Jamaica will celebrate its 42nd anniversary since being granted independence by Britain. Let us not fool ourselves, slavery, the plantation culture and colonialism all tarnished authority in our society as being against the people.
Shearer: A black man who governed
READERS WILL remember how highly I think of Robert Lightbourne from a recent column. But the full measure of the man could not be taken without Hugh Lawson Shearer's role. It's a story that my late friend Morris Cargill always told me could never be...
The issue of white employment
NOEL CROSSWELL, who became Commissioner of Police in the 1960s, was first recruited as a Sub-Inspector of Police from the Colonial Secretary's Office in 1937 where he was a Second Class Clerk. Other senior police officers, above the rank of...
Protecting our children
THE CALL to act right, love, and protect our children is being made to all of us through a Ministry of Health campaign that was launched recently to promote awareness of the provisions of the Child Care and Protection Act. Hopefully this campaign will...
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