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June 21, 2026
Mark Wignall | Answers on the power cut
Last week, the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz spent a few days docked in Jamaican waters.
If a situation ever arose that while the carrier was on its way to Kingston Harbour, our local diplomatic…
June 21, 2026
Simon Black, Elaine Duncan, Shirley Pryce | Domestic workers deserve dignity and respect
Countries around the globe are facing care crises, a dire situation of growing gaps between care needs and societies’ capacities to meet these needs. Jamaica is no exception: from underinvestment in…
June 21, 2026
Ruthlyn James | The illiterate engineer
Many successful Jamaican men live among us with a hidden shame. Some build houses, repair engines, wire communities, and raise families out of poverty through talent, innovation, sacrifice, and strong…
June 21, 2026
Dennis A. Minott | The June 5 blackout and Jamaica’s nuclear mirage
The electrical grid, let alone a nuclear power plant, does not respond to speeches. It responds to engineering, operational discipline, competent technicians, and systems that perform reliably around…
June 21, 2026
Garth Rattray | How fathers affect daughters
Everybody knows that fathers, and father influences, are extremely important to our households, communities, and, therefore, to our entire society. The presence of fathers is known to significantly…
June 21, 2026
Orville Taylor | MOU-vement of ‘deportees’
Some things are too critical for details to be filled in by speculation. Facts are not inconvenient and are not to be modified by imagination or for any other purpose.
There is not enough…
June 21, 2026
Albert R. Ramdin | A vision for the Americas, a renewed commitment to the OAS
The Organization of American States convenes its 56th General Assembly in Panama this June 22–24 at a defining moment for our hemisphere. We are living through a period of profound complexity:…
June 22, 2026
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Away is a real place
"Throw it away."
It is a phrase we use every day without much thought. We tell our children to throw their garbage away. We put it out for collection and trust that it will be taken away.…