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A cargo ship navigates through Panama Canal waters in Gamboa, Panama, in June 2020.

Imagine a natural disaster that can potentially drive up the cost of food, energy, and retail items while negatively impacting manufacturing, tourism, exports, bank interest rates and even inflation, and basically impacting the whole of the...
Dennis Minott writes: By nurturing a generation of empathetic and compassionate citizens, CARICOM nations will lay the foundation for more harmonious, just, and thriving societies.

In a world grappling with flailing social complexities, the significance of compassion and emotional learning (mCEL) has never been more apparent. mCEL, my strongly advocated examinable process (by CE, PEP, CSEC, CAPE, and the like) for acquiring...
Representational image of a nurse tending to a patient.

There is a new development in public health in Jamaica – one that has been years in the making and which augurs well for improved access to healthcare, particularly for those persons from rural and underserved areas. It is that our nurses are to be...

In the Black community worldwide, mental ill-health manifests in myriad individual and social dysfunctions. The impulse to harm others, which is a version of self-harm, has now been normalised in crisis proportions. Jamaica has the dubious...

Pharmacy owner Dave Murphy and his employee John Love were recently arrested and charged by the St Catherine police, in conjunction with the Pharmacy Council of Jamaica, for illegally dispensing pharmaceutical drugs without the presence of a...

Before I travelled to Jamaica last December to become Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, I asked my predecessor which books I should read to understand Jamaica. He immediately recommended The Confounding Island, by Orlando Patterson in 2019. He was a...

The Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) has been embroiled in a string of controversies and gaffes in recent years, raising concerns about its competence and ability to effectively manage Jamaica’s foreign relations....

Current events in Gaza feel like Groundhog Day. Following a horrific attack by Palestinian Hamas militants in southern Israel on October 7 that killed 1,400 Israelis and resulted in the kidnapping of over 200 hostages, hardline Israeli prime...

Let me declare up front that I’m a big fan of Kamina Johnson-Smith. But I can’t fathom her convoluted and seemingly inconsistent “reasons” for Jamaica’s refusal to vote on a recent United Nations Resolution calling for a temporary cease fire in...

Located in the Leeward Islands, the island of St Martin comprises two individual countries: St Martin, colonised by France, and Sint Marteen, colonised by the Netherlands. The Netherlands recently issued two apologies on December 19, 2022, and...
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