Commentary
27 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | What the mining mess tells Jamaica
Sometimes two apparently unrelated news stories tell us more about the state of a country than either story does by itself. Jamaica recently welcomed a US$5-million grant from the European Union,…
27 Sep, 2026
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David Walmsley, Mariya Gabriel, and Liz Corbin | The integrity dividend: The value of knowing
We are not short of information. We have never had more of it. Yet across the world, people struggle to answer the simplest questions: What actually happened? Who decided what? Is it true?
27 Sep, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Chronic paucity of hospital beds
Some memories are so stark and so painful that, no matter how much time has passed, they never go away. Several decades ago, Janet (not her real name) came to see me urgently. She was experiencing the…
27 Sep, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Sociology of compulsory sentences and school closure
Both Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon and President of the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) Tenneshia Watkins sat in first-year sociology classes on the plantation longer ago than is apparent…
27 Sep, 2026
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Tischina Smith | Living well together
“Living Well Together” is an apt theme chosen by the Ministry of Education for Back-to-School 2026. A school is a community of stakeholders operating in a physical environment designed to facilitate…
26 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Case for resilient infrastructure
In between the deliberations about wars and other geopolitical problems, another global emergency is concentrating the minds of many world leaders at this year’s United Nations General Assembly in New…
26 Sep, 2026
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Giselle Bradshaw | A school rule should never humiliate a child
What should have been an enthusiastic first day of school for a grade-five student at a Kingston primary school instead became a day of embarrassment and humiliation. The student asked to use the…
26 Sep, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Michael Caine: Not many people know that ...
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” If that is not a wonderful place to start in the “Brainy Quote” of Sir Michael Caine, here are a few more that…
25 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Listen to the lawyers
It is exceedingly rare in Jamaica for lawyers and high judicial officials to engage in public protests over questions of law and the doctrine of separation of powers. Fundamentally, there is…