A Salute to our nation's teachers!
Today is a very special day as we pause to salute our nation’s teachers. A profession that is the back bone for all the nations of the world. Teaching is also the pillow which holds the heads of the world. If I were to use one word to describe a...

Maximizing the art of teaching literature
There are persons who constantly make the point that the literature taught to our students in high schools should reflect a strong Caribbean bias. Others have even argued that it should be entirely West Indian.  However, Wendy Maxwell, an...

Wading in the education bay
Milton Wade, teacher at the Old Harbour Bay Primary School. (Elgin Taylor Photo)   There are many challenges which may face an educator in a Jamaican fishing village. For Milton Wade, principal of Old Harbour Bay Primary School in...

Pushing the R&T Agenda
Yanique Christian - Teacher (Elgin Taylor Photo)   In the early school curriculum, it was referred to as Sewing and Gardening, then later as Home Economics and Agriculture, and now it has been expanded and rebranded as Resource and...

'Blaring' a path for education
It is a good and noble thing to set aside a day in the yearly calender to recognize our heroes and heroine for their contibution to nation building. It is also a good gesture on that day to recognize many other Jamaicans who have given yeoman...