Commentary
20 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Dismantling WI cricket?
This newspaper would welcome, and indeed requests, greater clarity from Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) CEO for his seeming implication that Caribbean governments have been unreliable partners in projects…
20 Oct, 2026
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Michael Abrahams | Jamaica’s third-country national deportee agreement: why the secrecy and deception?
In June, the US and Jamaica signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to use Jamaica as a transit point for up to 25 third-country national (TCN) deportees every two weeks. The first set of TCN…
20 Oct, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Who am I?
Many people have no idea what drives their lifetime choices, attitudes and prejudices. Often it happened in childhood and quietly influenced the way they deal with fellow humans. At some point, when…
19 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | The Jamone Lyle affair
The Jamone Lyle affair at Jamaica College (JC) has reopened an old but unresolved debate over what should be the expectation of, and limits placed on, the student athlete and, therewith, the…
19 Oct, 2026
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Dean Jones | The house that pays you back
Jamaica spent generations building bigger houses. Now it is time to build smarter ones. For decades, the Jamaican dream was measured in concrete, steel and square footage. The bigger the house, the…
19 Oct, 2026
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Christopher Burgess | Drought resilience by fixing NWC’s finances
The recent light rains may bring marginal relief, but they should not lull us into believing Jamaica is drought-resilient. Jamaica’s water security and the National Water Commission’s (NWC’s) finances…
19 Oct, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | A clear moral compass
I get it. NaRRA is the mechanism of getting around a sluggish public sector. Take on all the big projects, relegate the expensive MDAs to serve as maintenance crews. Melissa relief will get some…
19 Oct, 2026
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Ronald Siguencia | Latin America is living longer
For all of us, there comes a point in life when visiting the doctor stops being an occasional occurrence. Appointments become more frequent, medication becomes part of our daily routine, and illnesses…
19 Oct, 2026
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Raymond Pryce | Desalination and the water-energy-food nexus
Jamaica’s worsening water stress is a direct constraint on national economic growth and development. As of October, the National Water Commission (NWC) reported that 107 monitored supply systems were…