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23 May, 2026 0

Garth Rattray | Child’s Month and the age of consent
As a physician who has been seeing families for over four decades, many things impact me emotionally. However, one of the most striking events was witnessing a woman in her nineties recall and relate…
23 May, 2026 0

Byron Blake | People of western Jamaica at the risk of abandonment
April 28, was six months since the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Melissa flattened Western Jamaica. The response with emergency aid was remarkable. Ordinary Jamaicans and NGOs (local and abroad), the…
23 May, 2026 0

Orville Taylor | Do it right always
Lest we forget.  Our entire political framework; two political parties entrenched in Parliament are labour parties, established on the back or workers’ organisations. Since 1944, governments elected…
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22 May, 2026 0

Editorial | Tourism integration 
Edmund Bartlett’s call this week for collaboration by Caribbean countries to protect their vital tourism industries from global uncertainties again underlines the logic of regional integration. It…
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23 May, 2026 0

Editorial | Guardrails for close-in-age law 
The ongoing debate over a close-in-age exception to the Sexual Offences Act warrants open and honest discussions.  The public discourse for an issue that’s sensitive, involving children, consent,…
22 May, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Who to believe the next time?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What of a video? One might watch the CCTV video footage of the fatal police shooting of Latoya Bulgin and be tempted to question the motive of the officer…
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22 May, 2026 0

Luisa Blanco and Isabella Elias | Cuba needs a long-term solution to its energy crisis
Cuba has run out of oil, the country's energy minister announced on May 14, 2026. It marks a new depth to the island's energy crisis, which has gotten worse in recent months amid the…
23 May, 2026 0

Dianne Ashton-Smith | Community-based approach to alcohol misuse deserves support
The approach outlined by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton in this year’s sectoral debate presentation deserves serious consideration, because it signals a more mature and…
23 May, 2026 0

Tony Deyal | Time for women to get their write
Most of us did not know that differences between male and female writers, columnists, and, most importantly, comedians, are more in the social perceptions of their humour, rather than their ability to…