Commentary
May 24, 2026
Garth Rattray | Child’s Month and the age of consent
As a physician who has been seeing families for over four decades, many things impact me emotionally. However, one of the most striking events was witnessing a woman in her nineties recall and relate…
May 24, 2026
Byron Blake | People of western Jamaica at the risk of abandonment
April 28, was six months since the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Melissa flattened Western Jamaica. The response with emergency aid was remarkable. Ordinary Jamaicans and NGOs (local and abroad), the…
May 24, 2026
Orville Taylor | Do it right always
Lest we forget.
Our entire political framework; two political parties entrenched in Parliament are labour parties, established on the back or workers’ organisations.
Since 1944, governments elected…
May 22, 2026
Editorial | Tourism integration
Edmund Bartlett’s call this week for collaboration by Caribbean countries to protect their vital tourism industries from global uncertainties again underlines the logic of regional integration. It…
May 22, 2026
Kristen Gyles | Who to believe the next time?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What of a video? One might watch the CCTV video footage of the fatal police shooting of Latoya Bulgin and be tempted to question the motive of the officer…
May 22, 2026
Luisa Blanco and Isabella Elias | Cuba needs a long-term solution to its energy crisis
Cuba has run out of oil, the country's energy minister announced on May 14, 2026.
It marks a new depth to the island's energy crisis, which has gotten worse in recent months amid the…
May 22, 2026
Peter Espeut | Our democracy is not working
The word democracy comes from two Greek words: ‘demos’, which means ‘the people’ or ‘the citizenry’ or ‘civil society’; and ‘kratos’, which means ‘to rule’ or ‘to hold’ or ‘to grasp’. Hence the focus…
May 21, 2026
Editorial | The EU’s homework
In a May 9 speech celebrating Europe Day and in a subsequent op-ed column in this newspaper, Erja Askola, the European Union’s ambassador to Jamaica, stressed the EU’s desire to deepen its…
May 21, 2026
Ruthlyn James | Policing symptoms of developmental failure
There is a discomfort many Jamaicans feel but struggle to articulate when they see police officers stationed inside schools. It is not hostility towards the police, but a deeper societal question:…