EDITORIAL - Maintaining school discipline
IN THE face of the deepening concern over declining discipline in Jamaican schools, separate but related actions recently by two high school principals deserve public commendation and support. They have to do with the principals' insistence that students adhere...
200 years and one minute
ON MARCH 25, 1807, an Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade finally became law in the British Empire.The law was to take effect on May 1. It had been a long struggle. The British slave trade in Africans had begun with John Hawkins' supply of slaves... - Martin Henry
Beauty and the belly
Sara Lawrence is certainly not Edward VIII "of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Emperor of India", there is no equivalent of Mrs. Wallis Simpson in sight and his abdication at 10:00 a.m. on December 10, 1936... - Melville Cooke
Israel and the risks of isolation
Paul Baran once coined the expression "committing suicide out of fear of death." In the April 12 edition of the New York Review of Books, the billionaire financier George Soros argues that this is just what Israel risks doing today. It is a remarkable article... - John Rapley
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