Commentary
28 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Holness wins points
In a political culture given to spin and where the default of government officials is to downplay or sugar-coat bad news, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness wins points for warning Jamaicans that the…
28 Sep, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | What basis for trust?
“Everything is fine and, what isn’t, just give us time to fix it”. That’s the mantra of many Republican candidates in the upcoming November elections in the United States. At least that is the line of…
28 Sep, 2026
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Ruthlyn James | Flush the policy
Jamaica is big on discipline. Rules are rules. Newly trained educators enter schools excited to start their careers. However, with the current educational climate, many enter the classroom with…
28 Sep, 2026
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Sergey Petrovich | The seabed is not a no-man’s land
International seabed and its resources belong to all humanity. Yet, the United States is trying to appropriate them. The 31st session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA, headquartered in…
28 Sep, 2026
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Adekeye Adebajo | UN peacekeeping in crisis
With the world facing the largest number of armed conflicts since 1946, US President Donald Trump’s administration continuing assault on the United Nations has prevented the organization from…
27 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | What the mining mess tells Jamaica
Sometimes two apparently unrelated news stories tell us more about the state of a country than either story does by itself. Jamaica recently welcomed a US$5-million grant from the European Union,…
27 Sep, 2026
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David Walmsley, Mariya Gabriel, and Liz Corbin | The integrity dividend: The value of knowing
We are not short of information. We have never had more of it. Yet across the world, people struggle to answer the simplest questions: What actually happened? Who decided what? Is it true?
27 Sep, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Chronic paucity of hospital beds
Some memories are so stark and so painful that, no matter how much time has passed, they never go away. Several decades ago, Janet (not her real name) came to see me urgently. She was experiencing the…
27 Sep, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Sociology of compulsory sentences and school closure
Both Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon and President of the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) Tenneshia Watkins sat in first-year sociology classes on the plantation longer ago than is apparent…