Editorial - Anguish and pain in America
"IT IS better to give than receive", says a Biblical injunction. In the face of the incredible displays of suffering and diminution of spirit being played out before the eyes of the world in the hurricane-afflicted areas of Louisiana and Mississippi...
Back to school, back to problems
ANOTHER SCHOOL year begins officially tomorrow with thousands of students turning out to private and public institutions across the island. With this will come many of the same old problems that have been plaguing the system for decades, still unsolved...
We are on our own
I CAN see that we're going to spend a good deal of time getting into the terms and conditions of agreement for the sale of JPS. And all this while the rates burn a hole in our pocket. This must be the only country in the world where people are afraid to.
'Black' out in New Orleans
OH WRATH! Wrath of God that is. The thought of God or Allah expressing wrath, even when translated by a prophet with a lisp is a very fearsome one. I lived through hurricanes Gilbert, Ivan, Dennis and Emily as well as successive JLP and PNP...
The ethics of funding education
THE WISH of the government to annex some of the excess National Housing Trust (NHT) funds for use in education has become a major ethical issue. As I have heard it, the main objection is that the money was received as money for housing...
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