Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Thursday | October 20, 2005
Deregistration of UWI students
THERE IS still a strong, persistent feeling of entitlement to 'free' education, a hangover from the governmental policies of the 1970s. But the ground has shifted. With budgetary cuts to the University of the West Indies (UWI)...
WHAT SHOULD have been a moment of triumph in the construction of a new Iraq has become another symbol of the country's deteriorating state. Saddam Hussein stood defiantly before the tribunal that, nobody doubts, will sentence him... - John Rapley
WHEN WE left Kingston for our long Heroes Weekend on Friday afternoon it was already raining. But we had no idea that a late season tropical depression was to become the record-tying 21st named storm... - Martin Henry
I DID not know that it was possible to drive past the middle section of Knutsford Boulevard, near where it takes a deep bend before heading towards Oxford Road, without being at the mercy of the 'profilers'. - Melville Cooke