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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Friday | March 7, 2008

EDITORIAL - Simplistic approach on school textbooks
Andrew Holness, the education minister, will not be surprised if serious people begin to assume that he does not have enough on his plate, hence his emerging role as enforcer of a simplistic morality. Or worse, there are those who will cast him as anti-intellectual...

It's the technology, stupid!

Grumblings about the decline in morals of the nation's children and the rise of freely accessible sex have stirred up a tempest in our beloved island. Various commentators have expressed shock at the seeming obsession with sex that is driving schoolchildren... - Dennie Quill

When a hug is deserved

A MAN accused of stealing $200 million from the poor spends three nights in jail. This statement sounds reasonable; after all, theft is punishable by the law, and the thief is, after all, a villain. Villains usually are ostracised by society yet, in Jamaica... - Tara Clivio

NOTE-WORTHY: Congrats, DPP

I must take time out to offer my heartiest congratulation to Ms Paula Llewellyn on her appointment as director of public prosecutions.It has been a long haul, Ms Llewellyn, but I will say that the race is not for the swift, but those who endure to the end.





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