Commentary
February 1, 2026
Howard Mitchell and Michael McAnuff-Jones | Jamaican Covenant: A blueprint for moral revolution
This collaborative opinion piece has been penned after extensive thought sharing and discussions with a group of concerned senior church leaders who are members and leaders of a pastors association,…
February 1, 2026
Trevor Hamilton and Byron Blake | Jamaica’s readiness for economic sovereignty
The global economy has rotated 360 degrees in the last 100 years. Soon, economic winners will be countries with nuclear or military power or with economic sovereignty. While small countries cannot…
February 1, 2026
Garth Rattray | Patient care is a team effort
On January 25, the Medical Council of Jamaica hosted their Annual Ethics and Mental Health Webinar. The speakers were Ethicist Dr. Shereen Cox, professor of pharmacology and pharmacovigilance…
February 1, 2026
Orville Taylor | Women smarts in Parliament
Men who grew up close to their mothers and those in long term residential relationships have no problem with female leadership. Last week in Parliament, two women, each of whose name might relate to…
January 31, 2026
Editorial | Restoring education
While we commend the education ministry’s various initiatives to deliver education to children in Jamaica’s storm-ravaged regions, the government perhaps needs a broader strategy to head-off a…
January 31, 2026
Tony Deyal | Getting ready to rumble and tumble
For David E Bratt MD who believed “Trinidad being Trinidad, you cannot not have a jokey category,” and “The good: the Carnival spirit. So, little yet so the little means so much.” When it comes to…
January 31, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Education as economic policy: remedying the mismatch
When the door to migration narrows, the long-standing mismatch between education and economic absorption is no longer abstract; a country’s true immigration policy becomes domestic – how many jobs it…
January 30, 2026
Editorial | Beyond NaRRA’s CEO
As was recently promised by the information minister, Dana Morris Dixon, the government has advertised for a chief executive officer for the new agency that is to lead Jamaica’s reconstruction from…
January 30, 2026
Peter Espeut | Setting a bad example
Much has been written about the negative precedents being set by Donald Trump in his second term as president of the United States of America (USA).