Commentary
27 Sep, 2026
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Tischina Smith | Living well together
“Living Well Together” is an apt theme chosen by the Ministry of Education for Back-to-School 2026. A school is a community of stakeholders operating in a physical environment designed to facilitate…
26 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Case for resilient infrastructure
In between the deliberations about wars and other geopolitical problems, another global emergency is concentrating the minds of many world leaders at this year’s United Nations General Assembly in New…
26 Sep, 2026
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Giselle Bradshaw | A school rule should never humiliate a child
What should have been an enthusiastic first day of school for a grade-five student at a Kingston primary school instead became a day of embarrassment and humiliation. The student asked to use the…
26 Sep, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Michael Caine: Not many people know that ...
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” If that is not a wonderful place to start in the “Brainy Quote” of Sir Michael Caine, here are a few more that…
25 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Listen to the lawyers
It is exceedingly rare in Jamaica for lawyers and high judicial officials to engage in public protests over questions of law and the doctrine of separation of powers. Fundamentally, there is…
25 Sep, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Down by the riverside
On Monday, September 21, on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, US Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) delivered a major foreign policy address at the historic Riverside Church…
25 Sep, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Chasing squatters
In a country with an abundance of Crown land, dispossessing a private landowner of the land they purchased to give it to someone else,in the name of “equity” is itself inequitable. A person who…
24 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Building an export economy
Jamaica’s latest export figures tell a sobering story. During the first five months of 2026, merchandise exports declined by 12.5 per cent to US$674.7 million. This occurred despite a welcome 22.5 per…
24 Sep, 2026
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Lord Reed | Accessibility is not limited to where the JCPC sits
Response to ‘The Gleaner’s’ editorial of September 18 titled ‘Fee waiver changes little’”.