EDITORIAL - Better management needed at almost every level
The standard of governance we have enjoyed over the last three or four decades must be graded as poor to very poor. Our level of education is inadequate. The physical plant in our schools is run down and inadequately maintained. Our teachers are absorbed with compensation issues...
Pitfalls of reporting teen pregnancies
OUR SOCIETY is hypocritical. It presents our impressionable youth with double standards, mixed messages and cultural confusion. Popular songs promulgate lasciviousness and cheapen females, yet we expect our children to avoid sexual intercourse... - Garth Rattray
High-stakes summit
IT IS one thing for scholars and pundits to predict the coming of another arms race between the United States and Russia or the re-emergence of the Cold War; many have, and many will continue to do so at a time when United States-Russian relations are at their worst... - Dan Rather
Globalisation and investment
MUCH OF the debate about globalisation and its effects on Jamaica has been concerned with trade. As I noted in this column last week, Western countries have argued that greater liberalisation of the world economic system will work to the benefit of consumers... - Stephen Vasciannie
NOTE-WORTHY: Political ads
I have read comments in the past about government ministries and agencies running full-page advertisements, promoting the work of the agency and usually the politicians involved with them. Before the last election in 2002, there was a flood...
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