Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Sunday | May 30, 2004
Adieu, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
FORMER PRESIDENT of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family are expected to fly out of the island later today to take up residence in South Africa, after spending two-and-a-half months of temporary asylum here. Mr. Aristide and his wife, Mildred...
THE PUBLICATION of the ranking of Jamaican high schools on the basis of students' performance in the 2003 CXC examination has generated much discussion about the quality of our schools and the state of education. In many ways the publication of these...
HOW EASILY and coolly the Office of Utility Regulation informs us that our electricity bill will go up by about 30-40 per cent. How effortless the beggaring of the population. They must think everybody in the country is in drugs and other illegal...
BELIEVE IT or not, but there are two generations of Jamaicans who have no idea of what apartheid was, how Jamaica could have been divided between black and white as it was in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and to a large extent...
THE AVERAGE citizen, who is not middle or upper class, is too often not held in appropriate regard in Jamaica. As long as this continues, then such a person is likely to be denied the resources necessary for self-development. This threatens to consign...
