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May 24, 2026
Byron Blake | People of western Jamaica at the risk of abandonment
April 28, was six months since the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Melissa flattened Western Jamaica. The response with emergency aid was remarkable. Ordinary Jamaicans and NGOs (local and abroad), the…
May 24, 2026
Garth Rattray | Child’s Month and the age of consent
As a physician who has been seeing families for over four decades, many things impact me emotionally. However, one of the most striking events was witnessing a woman in her nineties recall and relate…
May 24, 2026
Orville Taylor | Do it right always
Lest we forget.
Our entire political framework; two political parties entrenched in Parliament are labour parties, established on the back or workers’ organisations.
Since 1944, governments elected…
May 24, 2026
Editorial | Opportunity to revisit Patterson report
No one is about to split hairs. Nonetheless, it was peculiar, especially for the timing, that it was the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) and its chair, Trisha Williams-Singh, rather than the…
May 24, 2026
INSPIRING JAMAICA - The dignity of labour
In the fertile plains of Westmoreland lies a place etched into Jamaica’s national conscience: Frome Sugar Estate. Long before Labour Day became associated with community beautification projects and…
May 24, 2026
ROAD TO ANIME PICNIC 2026 - Finding courage through cosplay
Her story also reflects the broader cultural shift driven by Anime Picnic itself. Once a small gathering defined by casual conversations and shared interests, the event has grown into a major cultural…
May 24, 2026
WISDOM OF THE WEEK - Be ‘telegraphic’
Modern life has become full of noise. We are talking all the time — with others, on phones, on social media, and even inside our own minds. If there is nobody around to speak to, we immediately open…
May 24, 2026
He’s Royal: Kingsley George Lawton Cooper
On April 29, the 19th Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibition opened in Charleston, South Carolina. More than 70 artists from 22 states are featured in the juried exhibition.
This year’s theme…
May 24, 2026
Matthew Smith, Matthew Stallard and Frankie Chappell | Narrating stories of the enslaved people of Jamaica
For 200 years, the most extensive records of pre-Emancipation Jamaicans have sat in London – originally in the old Public Record Office at Kew and now in The National Archives, UK. These Registers…