Commentary
April 7, 2026
Michael Abrahams | Israel’s Palestinian purge prescription
On March 30, 1976, Israeli police killed six unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel and injured over 100 others while they were protesting the state’s confiscation of nearly 5,000 acres of Palestinian…
April 7, 2026
Gordon Robinson | The essence of bronze
Political temperatures overheated in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland beyond the stars. An alleged tax evasion scheme, with Apocrypha’s main public hospital’s help, resulted in fingers being…
April 7, 2026
Francesca Tavares | The slave trades the UN forgot
The United Nations’ recent resolution designating the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the “greatest historical evil” is a troubling exercise in historiographical reductionism – one that prioritises…
April 6, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | Way to go
“Me have some new zinc sheet a sell. You want it fi one a yu church memba dem whey house blow down?” That was the offer from one of the few recipients who had received his rebuilding grant last week.…
April 6, 2026
Carvell McLeary | Demise of the 40-hour workweek?
Is the 40-hour workweek, the sacred foundation of employment practices, at an end? Is it blasphemous to offer such words? As Jamaican businesses struggle with productivity concerns, culture and…
April 6, 2026
Greta Merrill | Let’s make our soil great again
If I told you that most of the world’s food supply is grown on just three to six inches of dirt, you’d probably think that I was crazy. But that’s exactly why our top soil is so important. Top soil is…
April 4, 2026
Editorial | Humanity’s quest to reach the Moon and beyond
History was repeated on the evening of April 1 when Artemis II, carrying four astronauts, lifted off for a 10-day journey around the Moon – more than five decades after the first human landed on…
April 4, 2026
Editorial | Name criteria for the new coach
Despite his parsing of the issue, there seems little doubt that Rudolph Speid harbours the ambition of a permanent appointment as Jamaica’s national football coach. This newspaper makes no judgement…
April 4, 2026
Editorial | Listen to Richard Byles
Richard Byles, the governor of Jamaica’s central bank, may have addressed the broad principle, without specific entities in mind. But his call last week for strong boards at financial companies was…