Campaigns hit the cities
The political campaign scene will come alive today as the 'big guns' - the governing People's National Party (PNP) and Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) - hold rallies in separate sections of the island, as they prepare for the upcoming general electi
Heather Robinson quits...again
Heather Robinson, who quit the South Central St. Catherine seat she held for the People's National Party (PNP) in 1996 over the involvement of criminal elements in the process, has quit another party post for similar reasons. Miss Robinson resigned as...
Serious ambassadors of their constituencies
The contending parties are in the starting gates. The starter - P. J. Patterson - is on his rostrum, his hands on the lever. Any day now he will fly the gate. In the line-up are the parties' thoroughbreds. Among them are a large number of women...
When education was free
Free-education, for some, brought with it concerns. "As free as it was said to be, the truth is that it doesn't reflect the true contribution of the state," one former teacher explains. He says that there were assumptions that the Government would...
Cost sharing: Nothing new about the concerns
Extensively researching the history of cost sharing, over the past few weeks, has caused me to stumble upon a number of indisputably facts, as well as a few irrefutable conclusions. For one, it is a fact that while Michael Manley declared free education..
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