Commentary
21 Jun, 2026
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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:…
21 Jun, 2026
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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…
21 Jun, 2026
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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.…
21 Jun, 2026
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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…
20 Jun, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today
I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States(OAS). I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more…
20 Jun, 2026
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Editorial | Leading the charge to safeguard the oceans
It is a truism that the seas are critical to Jamaica’s and the Caribbean’s economic survival. But the data paints the picture starkly.
According to the World Bank, the blue economy contributes an…
20 Jun, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Doctors in the house including Stephan Leacock humourist
I was just about one-year-old when my father gave one of his cousins a job and a place to stay with us in a typical home, upstairs for all of us, and downstairs to ensure that we were not being under…
19 Jun, 2026
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Peter Espeut | A human rights or an English problem?
In his contribution to the sectoral debate in Parliament last week Wednesday (June 10), Minister of Justice, Delroy Chuck, stated, inter alia, that “Jamaica does not – and I hope will never have – a…
19 Jun, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Rat race to extinction
A few decades ago, John Calhoun, an expert in animal behaviour, set up an experiment involving eight white mice. He put them in what we can call ‘mouse heaven’. On day one of the experiment, the four…