Commentary
February 15, 2026
Orville Taylor | Islam’s slavery debt
The expression varies from as salaam aleikum to something like as salaam waleikum. Black populations such as Tanzania and its territory Zanzibar, the common salutation vary somewhat from the Arabic.
February 14, 2026
Editorial | Opening doors for girls in science and technology
In Jamaica, girls, as they do almost every sphere of education, outperform boys in maths and science in primary and high school. By age 15 – according to the OECD’s Programme for International…
February 14, 2026
Tony Deyal and Zeno Constance | Pan and Kaiso
I was just over four-years old and was heading to the village standpipes with two of my young neighbour’s carrying “pans” or buckets to go to the village standpipe when we heard big men shouting,…
February 14, 2026
Africka Stephens | When will unchecked power in our schools be addressed
Recent reports, from a primary school in Spanish Town, St Catherine, where students’ jackets were reportedly confiscated by school administrators during a cold weather front, have ignited public…
February 13, 2026
Editorial | Fix local government divisions
Moral and ethical considerations notwithstanding, there is little doubt that the People’s National Party (PNP) members of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) were on sound legal…
February 13, 2026
Peter Espeut | Marcus Garvey, black history-maker
Much is publicly known about The Rt Hon Marcus Mosiah Garvey ONH (1887-1940) – Jamaica’s first National Hero, so in this article I will focus on what I think are not so well-known details of Garvey’s…
February 13, 2026
Kristen Gyles | Public sector now leading the way
I think it would be fair to say the public sector now sets the standard. The public sector wage restructuring exercise which saw public sector salaries increasing by as much as 300 per cent in some…
February 12, 2026
Editorial | No joy in corruption index
If there is a positive take away for Jamaica from Transparency International (TI) latest Perception Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published this week, is that nothing has changed. Jamaica’s…
February 12, 2026
SSP Diaries | 2026 – another year of questions without suitable answers?
At the beginning of 2025 I examined several situations under the caption ‘2025 – Another year of questions without suitable answers.’ This article revisits the past and looks also at other incidents…