LETTER OF THE DAY - Tread carefully with GSAT changes
The Editor, Sir: The policy initiative of the People's National Party (PNP) government to implement the grade six achievement test (GSAT) to replace the most feared common entrance examination in 1999 was well received by educational practitioners ...

Dancehall ignorance
The Editor, Sir: For political and aesthetic reasons I have never been a dancehall fan, but am not proud that I don't know enough about it to critique it outside of generalities and subjectivism.What is obvious to me however...

Health-care costs vs needs
The Editor, Sir: Despite the introduction of a system which has facilitated access to the public health-care system by the vast majority of Jamaican people a recent series of articles in your publications seemingly points to a system in dire straits.

Old-time values have died
The Editor, Sir: Not being an old person, I do not have the opportunity to wax philosophically about 'the good old days', but that has not blinded me to things I am sure I heard of while living in Jamaica. I grew up in rural Jamaica...

Not so fast, Docta C
THE EDITOR, Sir: Dr Carolyn Cooper's opening statement (The Sunday Gleaner, Feb 22,) captures the essence of her thesis that prejudice is at the heart of the public outcry against Rampin' Shop and the likes in public spaces.

Cooper on the button
THE EDITOR, Sir: I MUST congratulate Carolyn Cooper on her wonderful piece in The Sunday Gleaner in defence of dancehall music. Make no mistake, the recent statements by the Broadcasting Commission are thinly-disguised attacks ...

Education dynamics
THE EDITOR, Sir:I AM not sure how many persons write the daily editorials, but it seems to me that at least one continually demonstrates, through his/her writing, an incapacity to understand the dynamics of the education system....

Crisis summit needed
THE EDITOR, Sir: BOTH THE director of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, Dr Wesley Hughes, and the governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), Derick Latibeaudiere, have indicated, in no uncertain terms, that Jamaica, like most other countries...

Christie's reply unhelpful
THE EDITOR, Sir:Re: Greg Christie and the Hamilton/Rousseau issue.What a whole heap of "worda-ciousness and spokaciousness" about nothing. I have never been so "obfuscated" in my entire life...

Spread the blame
THE EDITOR, Sir: "Blame nuh drop a grung". That was a little saying I learnt from a teacher while I was in primary school. I laughed at it then, but as I grew older, I came to realise the true meaning of it. It is no wonder that teachers get blamed ...