Commentary
February 18, 2026
Norris R. McDonald |Corruption as economic violence
Jamaica may be recording a decline in murders, and that is welcome news. But while the headlines celebrate falling homicide rates, the country is stuck in a deeper, more corrosive crisis: a perpetual…
February 18, 2026
Anisa Wilson-Smith | The empty engine: Why STEM/STEAM fails without an SEL Foundation
In the current landscape of Jamaican education, the buzzwords are unmistakable: STEM and STEAM. As a nation, we are racing to equip our youth with the technical prowess to navigate a digital-first…
February 17, 2026
Editorial | Dennis Gordon must recuse himself from PAC
It would always have been untenable. But having personally, inserted himself and his company into the debate over the auditor general’s findings at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI),…
February 17, 2026
Michael Abrahams | Going psycho over Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer and professional wrestler. Born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, he began his music career in 2013, performing reggaeton and Latin trap…
February 18, 2026
Gordon Robinson | The essence of chivalry
In Apocrypha, our favourite Fantasyland far, far away, where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solves political problems by parable, justice was the hot topic. Oma’s hobby of advising his…
February 17, 2026
The new diaspora map: Where Jamaicans abroad are buying to live (and why it’s shifted)
For years, “diaspora property” in Jamaica meant one thing: come home, build inna the old community, and lock it up until Christmas. That era isn’t dead – but it’s not leading anymore. What’s leading…
February 17, 2026
Ryan Reddie | Suspension is not the way to go: Rethinking school discipline in a changing Jamaica
When I was in high school, discipline meant structure, order, and clear boundaries. There were consequences, yes – but the cultural climate was different. Authority was rarely questioned, and social…
February 16, 2026
Editorial | Vision 2050 and beyond
The aspiration of making Jamaica “the place of choice” for its citizens to “live, work, raise families, and do business” remains relevant. There are still four years in the two-decade timeframe since…
February 16, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | On judgment
The Standing Finance Committee of Parliament will soon begin its examination of the proposed ways in which nearly $ 1.5 trillion of your money and mine is going to be spent. Although we don’t…