Commentary

June 10, 2026

Allan Bernard | When ‘milk’ no longer means milk
Recently, social media has been flooded with debate over allegations that some restaurants and international meat suppliers have been substituting kangaroo tail for the far more expensive beef oxtail.…
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June 10, 2026

Editorial | Revive impeachment debate
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s reminder that the impeachment bill he first tabled a decade and a half ago remains in legislative limbo and deserves a response from Prime Minister Andrew Holness…
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June 11, 2026

Editorial | Chris Brown’s intervention 
Christopher Brown, the Opposition’s spokesman on science and technology, made compelling observations about the disengagement of Jamaicans from the political process and why legislators should be…
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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…