Dr. Canute Thompson June 14, 2022 Among the many recommendations of the 2021 Patterson Commission on the Jamaican education system, is the establishment of an oversight body to monitor the implementation of its recommendations. This body will be called the Education Transformation Oversight Committee (ETOC). The Government has taken steps to implement that recommendation naming […]
I do not support Jamaica’s decision to nominate a candidate for the post at this time, given that CARICOM Heads at their meeting in Belize, earlier this year, had voted “overwhelmingly” to support Scotland for a second term.
May 19, 2022 Jamaica faces a labour and skills shortage which is far more stark and severe than the Prime Minister Andrew Holness has communicated, when he spoke at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new hotel, in April 2022. Indeed, the characterization of the crisis offered by the Prime Minister should cause grave concern, for
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May 9, 2022 One of my persistent criticisms about the landscape of Jamaican society (and might I add, including the Church), relates to double standards. This practice of double standards is often manifested in the unbalanced and disproportionate application of laws and rules. Even in circumstances in which a decision-maker chooses to exercise mercy, or
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