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June 8, 2026

Editorial | Agriculture: resurrecting the mission 
When Agriculture Minister Floyd Green announced, during his sectoral budget presentation, that the Government, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), had drafted a new 10-year…
June 8, 2026

Ronald Thwaites | Managed decline
Robert is a member in the downtown church where I serve. His quality of life is being progressively diminished by cataracts. He has already had to give up his job as a driver. If untreated, blindness…
June 8, 2026

Shinique Walters | From grants to growth...How much community change should aid funding deliver after Hurricane Melissa?
Months after the destruction of Hurricane Melissa, particularly across southern and western Jamaica, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has shared that it has spent…
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June 7, 2026

Editorial | FLA has work to do
The flat rejection by Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) chairman, retired judge Glenworth Brown, of the authority continuing to seek judicial review of the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on…
June 7, 2026

Nekeisha Burchell | Permission to chat – language and identity in Jamaica today
A few weeks ago, people found themselves having a conversation that stretched far beyond our shores. It was a conversation about language, but it was also a conversation about identity, history, and…
June 7, 2026

Aubrey Stewart | Navigating democracy’s necessary tension
Often, there is a public clash between the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM). Commissioner Kevin Blake argues that officers deserve support…
June 7, 2026

Carolyn Cooper | Lisa Hanna from bathroom to boardroom
On April 8, Ms Lisa Hanna delivered the 16th Annual Aggrey Brown Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the Caribbean School of Media and Communication at The University of the West Indies, Mona.  Her topic…
June 7, 2026

Orville Taylor | Flagging the Cup
We did go for history and go for cup, and succeeded at one. Watching the teams parade, including our infinitesimal Caribbean neighbours, Curaçao and our fellow Africans, the Democratic Republic of the…
June 7, 2026

Garth Rattray | Rethink and rename ‘obesity’
The medical sciences are in constant flux. Understandably, this may cause some degree of scepticism, confusion, and a loss of confidence among some medical practitioners but more so among…