Commentary
14 Oct, 2025
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Norris McDonald | Jamaica’s bauxite policy, RUSAL’s perks, and Manley’s fight for tax justice!
IN 2024, RUSAL Engineering & Tech Centre, LLC, a subsidiary of the Russian-owned RUSAL corporation, filed a patent in the United States for a method to extract scandium from bauxite red mud and…
13 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | The AI protocols in courts
Last month’s promulgation by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes of protocols for the use of AI-generated documents in court proceedings advances his long-standing advocacy for the use of artificial…
13 Oct, 2025
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Michael Abrahams | Why do people become suicidal?
Whenever someone dies by suicide, one of the most common reactions is to ask the question “Why?”. Most of us have never thought of taking our own lives. Persons who do, or attempt to do so, are…
13 Oct, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | Grow older; never grow old
Today “senior citizen care” has become a national concern. 1970s family planning policies kept our population below 3,000,000. But, consequently, it’s an ageing population. If migration is brought…
09 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Embrace INDECOM’s report
This week’s special report by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) on fatal shootings by the police during planned police operations (PPO) is probably discomfiting reading for the…
09 Oct, 2025
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Peter Espeut | Exoneration? Not at all!
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word “exonerate” means “to absolve from blame for fault or wrongdoing”. The Merriam-Webster dictionary from the other side of the pond defines it as “to clear…
09 Oct, 2025
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Kristen Gyles | Public sector politics
What exactly constitutes political activities? Dr Aujae Dixon, a Jamaican junior doctor, who participated in the September 3 general election as the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the…
08 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Outrage over Commodore, but …
Even as this newspaper shares the national outrage over the murder of five people – including a four-year-old child – in Sunday’s mass shooting in the community of Commodore, Linstead, St. Catherine…
08 Oct, 2025
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Crime Stop works: Yet still we remain silent
THE CURTAINS had barely come down on last Sunday’s Crime Stop 36th Anniversary Gala event at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, when news came of Jamaica’s latest mass shooting, this time in Linstead, St…