Editorial - Grenada revisited
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S call on Thursday for a judicial review of the cases of the Grenada 17 - the persons convicted for their alleged role in the death of Maurice Bishop and his colleagues in October 1983 - is a poignant reminder that...
Factors affecting CXC results
SINCE THE release of the 2003 Caribbean Examinations Council's (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) examinations, discussion in the public media on the state of education in the island has heightened. (Barrett)
A national factory for hoodlums
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have reached a consensus in Parliament on what is to happen to education. There is to be more money budgeted, a cut-back on money to the university, and more money spent...(Ritch)
Who is to blame for failure?
SOON AFTER the CXC results were reported I read an interesting article in The Gleaner. In it, a number of people implied that the poor results were the direct result of teacher migration. (Hendricks)
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