Commentary
05 Oct, 2026
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Wayne Campbell | Standing with teachers
Around the world, teachers continue to face excessive workloads, insufficient salaries, growing administrative burdens, a growing culture of disrespect, poor working conditions, attacks on academic…
05 Oct, 2026
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Damion Crawford | Standing with our teachers while standing together for our children
Today, as we celebrate World Teachers’ Day under the theme, ‘Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures’, I want us to focus on one…
05 Oct, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Treacherous political and economic waters
That is what our leader says Jamaica is facing. Most of us knew this to be the case long ago. We live that unsettling truth every day when we go to the shop or buy gas. Oligarchs and fellow travellers…
05 Oct, 2026
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Dwayne Vernon | Trust deficit: Corruption, good governance and the way forward
Corruption corrodes the institutions on which democracies depend. In Jamaica, corruption and the perception of it now threaten three pillars of good governance: participation, the rule of law, and…
04 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Farewell, Ian McDonald!
It has been a season of death for towering West Indian figures. In July, Garfield Sobers, the greatest cricketer who ever lived, whether, as the calypsonian Mighty Sparrow declared in song, Sir…
04 Oct, 2026
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Mickel Jackson | Let’s strike the balance on the Firearms Act
In 2022, Jamaicans for Justice submitted its proposals to the members of the Firearms Joint Select Committee. We raised concerns then, and again before the wider Parliament once the bill left the…
04 Oct, 2026
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Rattan Lal | The FAO faces a new agricultural revolution
Humanity faces a paradox. We have never had so much scientific and technological knowledge to produce food, yet the need to transform the way we produce it has never been more evident. The Green…
04 Oct, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Doctoring the IDT
‘Patients’ and ‘patience’ are homophones, and we would be unreasonable to deny that the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) has lots of both. With a doctor-patient ratio of 0.5 to 1,000,…
04 Oct, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Is it aptitude, attitude, or both?
The school term is in full swing once again and, although a child’s performance in school depends on a wide variety of external influences, I can’t help thinking that more children could do better if…