If the Record Fails, the Student Falls. Across Jamaica’s and CARICOM's high school landscape, there are all too many brass-faced counterparts: institutions that prioritize trophy-winning quiz teams and sporting accolades plus strange and unjust peculiarity over student growth, masking indifference with performative achievement while leaving genuine learning and compassionate upliftment behind. One might expect that a national education review— would spotlight the glaring weak

Last Sunday's  compelling Gleaner editorial reflecting on MAGA's coercing impact on American academic freedom prompted me to revisit and refine my original proposal. With A-QuEST having mentored/coached 11 Rhodes Scholars and over 1,300 PhDs and other doctorates (overwhelmingly drawn from my A-QuEST International Students educated in the USA) over the past 45 years, and, significantly, with Jamaica and CARICOM facing Haiti's urgent capacity-rebuilding needs, now humbly offer

From Dennis A Minott, A-QuEST

No urgent moves to protect children from abuse. No credible lunge to conclude the repair of the hospital in Montego Bay. No rebuke of foreign tyrants, even as they commit mass slaughter. No vision for diplomacy—only disarray, smiles, flawless make-up, and a remarkably Pygmalean first name. Instead, we see photo ops. And silence. And a parade of parliamentarians whose public piety hides private greed. We see the steady withering of every noble value on which Jamaica was bui

Judas used a kiss. Jamaica uses deportation. For 30 pieces of silver — filthy lucre in our time — we have betrayed Haitians seeking refuge, dignity, and kinship among us. We bave uncharacteristically turned them back into the hands of their tormentors, without hearing, without compassion, without even a pause to remember who we once were. This is not poetry. This is refoulement — the forced return of asylum seekers to danger without due process. It violates the 1951 Refuge

One needn’t be a cynic to see that something vital is fading. Our democracy, once animated by active citizens and accountable institutions, now teeters on the edge of indifference. It’s not collapsing in a blaze. It’s been slowly hemorrhaging. A quiet, patient death by a thousand cuts. The Cuts are Numerous and Deep.

Until we smash the 'pools' that deny students choice, every education reform will be lipstick on a corpse. The Patterson Report missed the mark. Again. The 2021 Patterson Commission Report on education reform in Jamaica was a well-meaning and long-overdue initiative. It offered broad recommendations on governance, teacher training, early childhood education, and funding. However, it overlooked a critical issue that affects students daily the widespread use of "pools" in high

Accountability must be swift. As with a surgeon lancing a wound, credible allegations- whether nepotism, enrichment, or abuse-must trigger immediate action. Delay breeds suspicion, silence breeds cynicism. Reports from the Auditor General and Integrity Commission must not be ignored. Consequences must follow, or investigative institutions become ceremonial, and public faith withers.

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