Commentary
26 May, 2026
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Dean Jones | Hurricane season returns to the forefront as Jamaica expands financial protection
With the official Atlantic hurricane forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration out, governments, insurers and property owners across the Caribbean are again confronting a…
26 May, 2026
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Michael Abrahams | The gruesome killing of Latoya Bulgin
While watching the TVJ Prime Time News on Sunday, May 17, I saw a report that covered a fatal police shooting in the community of Granville in Montego Bay. Member of Parliament (MP) for the…
24 May, 2026
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Editorial | Urgent transport Green Paper
Given the capital’s perennial weekday traffic gridlock, and the increasing frequency of the phenomenon across Jamaica, Transport Minister Daryl Vaz’s promise of a revised national transportation…
24 May, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Defending principles
It can't be good for any nation when its government habitually savages its own credibility while considering itself triumphant. Don't they think things through? Don't they listen to the…
24 May, 2026
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Mark Anderson | Resilience matters : How right infrastructure can strengthen Caribbean communities on the frontline of climate change
Across the Caribbean, communities are confronting the impacts of climate change: stronger hurricanes, prolonged droughts, heavier rainfall, and increasingly unpredictable weather events.
While…
23 May, 2026
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Dennis Minott | The Hanta death of accountability in modern Jamaica – Part One
South Africans have popularised a phrase that perfectly captures the creeping paralysis of Jamaican public accountability: the ‘Stalingrad strategy’. Born amid the labyrinthine legal manoeuvres…
23 May, 2026
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Editorial | Opportunity to revisit Patterson report
No one is about to split hairs. Nonetheless, it was peculiar, especially for the timing, that it was the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) and its chair, Trisha Williams-Singh, rather than the…
23 May, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Stone-cold killers
Most or just all of us saw that video of the police shooting in Granville, Jamaica, this past weekend, which resulted in the horrible death of a woman.
To say the least, it was chilling. Excessively…