EDITORIAL - The imperative of protecting witnesses
Assistant Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington may have conceded that he does not have the empirical evidence for his claim. We, however, are not about to reject his assertion of accused persons conning the legal system to get information about witnesses against them so as to have these witnesses bumped off.
This language business ... Policy perspectives
In recent months, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture has been engaged in the development of a new language- education policy. This document is expected to influence the way our teaching and testing institutions approach the task of ensuring that adequate communication skills are developed in learners at every level...
This language business ... Teaching in J'can creole?
have real sympathy with those who are surprised that anybody in a school would want to make use of the Jamaican language (which the academics call Creole and the rest of us call Patois). After all, most of us have been socialised into believing that it isn't a language at all, that it is at best a dialect of English... (Maxwell)
Political parties and crime
Hartley Neita's 'This Day in Our Past' reminded us last Tuesday, July 8, that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was launched at the Ward Theatre in 1943 on that day. Led by Alexander Bustamante, the new party pledged to work unceasingly for the progress, expansion, growth and successful accomplishment of the ideals and principles which the party was formed to achieve. (Henry)
'Bandidos' and mavericks
Riding west across the border, you pass two sets of lawmen fixed in their bases. Don't pass too late though, because long before midnight, they are locked up tighter than a secret but looser than a high-profile suspect. (Taylor)
Dividing the country
Friday, June 27, was indeed another very sad day for Jamaica... Douglas Chambers, the chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), was brutally killed minutes after taking a break from a very amicable meeting at which I was present. (Brown)
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