Commentary
20 Sep, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Worrying suicide rate
One of my favourite callers on Radio Jamaica 94 FM Hotline, in his usual fashion, pulled an item of national significance from the news. The topic was suicide, and the story appeared in the Jamaica…
20 Sep, 2026
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Garth Rattray | My views on reparations for slavery
Culture Minister Olivia Grange led a Jamaican delegation to London to hand-deliver a petition addressed to King Charles III, asking him to “refer three legal questions to the Judicial Committee of the…
20 Sep, 2026
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Byron Blake | What does ‘consultation’ mean for the victims of Hurricane Melissa?
Consultation. A most-used, perhaps abused, term in modern democracies and media. Politicians and policymakers claim that they are always involved in it. Constituents are always demanding it. But…
19 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Encourage mediation and restorative justice
As Jamaica prepares to observe International Peace Day on Monday, this week’s reiteration by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck of his years-old proposal for a major expansion of conflict mediation…
19 Sep, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Cocoa tea
(This is to remember the great Colvin George Scott, the best Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter, born on September 3, 1949, and who died on March 11, 2025. And Zeno Obi Constance is by far the…
19 Sep, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money
Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies, and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in…
18 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Doubling down on bad policy
Delroy Chuck, the justice minister, might wish to remind himself of this newspaper’s frequently expressed adage that what is worse than formulating bad policy is its implementation. But even worse…
18 Sep, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Restorative justice and reparations
It is an established principle in ethics that, when a wrong is done, there must be reparations. On a personal level, God forgives sin but he also requires reparations for sin: extensive prayer and…
18 Sep, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Policing bathroom use
The recent bathroom incident involving a Grade Five George Headley Primary School student gave many of us unpleasant flashbacks. It is certainly not an unfamiliar occurrence. The child’s father told…