Commentary
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…
May 9, 2026
Orville Taylor | Mothers’ every day
“You're what I celebrate, You're like a never ending holiday. You're my forever special occasion.”
Dorothy Moore, sang that almost 50 years ago; two years after the UN dedicated 1975…
May 9, 2026
Xinyu Addae-Lee | Maternity care under the radar
Reports in the Jamaica Observer some time ago have once again placed maternity care under public scrutiny — from the tragic death of a newborn at Cornwall Regional Hospital to accounts of a difficult…
May 9, 2026
Editorial | Choosing the football coach
As was widely anticipated, Rudolph Speid has been named to continue as Jamaica’s interim national football coach for the four-team, Unity Cup, to be held in England this month.
May 8, 2026
Peter Espeut | Lip service to sustainable development
For the last 40 years or so, every political party in Jamaica includes “environmental sustainability” or “sustainable development” in its public pre-election propaganda. The manifesto of the Jamaica…
May 8, 2026
Kristen Gyles | Deepfakes can’t be left unregulated
The explosion in the creation of deepfakes has left us in the middle of an information war. No longer can we safely consume audiovisual content without questioning whether we are watching something…
May 7, 2026
Editorial | Democracy and a free press
There wasn’t much of a fanfare in marking World Press Freedom Day on Sunday. Jamaica remains 26th out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index, with a score (75.87) that…