Commentary
May 10, 2026
Editorial | Fixing UHWI
Chris Tufton’s review committee is probably right that fixes to the legislation under which The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) operates, including streamlining some board positions,…
May 10, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | Inadequacies of education
“Education system reproducing economic and social injustice,” said Maziki Thame in her recent contribution in the Senate. Tragically, she is right. But nobody has noticed. Instead a tizzy about…
May 10, 2026
Lloyd Barnett | CHALLENGES OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES - Educating and engaging the electorate
Constitutional reform is usually a highly contentious and complex subject. There are often diverse views on critical subjects. Many proposals are put forward without any comprehensive research or…
May 9, 2026
Editorial | Safeguarding children from abuse
There is no gainsaying that children and adolescents in Jamaica live under significant stress, often existing in the proximity of violence and other forms of abuse – or being the victims of…
May 10, 2026
Editorial | Grasping India’s pivot
Last week’s visit to Jamaica by India’s external affairs minister, Dr S Jaishankar, should be read as more than diplomatic reflex – or a nicety to a now peripheral country of the Girmitiya, the…
May 9, 2026
Tony Deyal | Where do we go from here?
Zeno Obi Constance is by far the best in the Caribbean and beyond. This article is part of an attempt to reach, teach and increase our knowledge and commitment of our development.
May 9, 2026
Ronald Sanders | The Caribbean’s limits in absorbing other states’ deportees
Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws.
May 9, 2026
Garth Rattray | Ode to mother
Even as a child, I wondered why my siblings and I called our mother ‘Mother’. We never called her ‘Mom’, ‘Mommy’, ‘Moms’, ‘Momsy’, ‘Mamma’, ‘Mum’, ‘Mummy’, or ‘Ma’. There was no historical or cultural…