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May 9, 2026
Xinyu Addae-Lee | Maternity care under the radar
Reports in the Jamaica Observer some time ago have once again placed maternity care under public scrutiny — from the tragic death of a newborn at Cornwall Regional Hospital to accounts of a difficult…
May 9, 2026
Orville Taylor | Mothers’ every day
“You're what I celebrate, You're like a never ending holiday. You're my forever special occasion.”
Dorothy Moore, sang that almost 50 years ago; two years after the UN dedicated 1975…
May 9, 2026
Garth Rattray | Ode to mother
Even as a child, I wondered why my siblings and I called our mother ‘Mother’. We never called her ‘Mom’, ‘Mommy’, ‘Moms’, ‘Momsy’, ‘Mamma’, ‘Mum’, ‘Mummy’, or ‘Ma’. There was no historical or cultural…
May 10, 2026
Editorial | Grasping India’s pivot
Last week’s visit to Jamaica by India’s external affairs minister, Dr S Jaishankar, should be read as more than diplomatic reflex – or a nicety to a now peripheral country of the Girmitiya, the…
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May 9, 2026
Gordon Robinson | The games people play
Government’s latest gaming policy is to merge three Regulatory Commissions, Racing (JRC); Betting Gaming and Lotteries (BGLC); and Casino Gaming (CGC).
It’s a very bad idea.
The thing is, insofar as…
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May 9, 2026
Mark Wignall | The lunacy of war
Those enrolled in any advanced study of war must face up to the philosophical considerations and questions born out of history. The first is that war is inevitable, and in a most perverse way, we are…
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May 9, 2026
Jalil Dabdoub | Diplomatic deception: Selective framing and challenge of honest dialogue
The recent Gleaner commentary by Raslan Abu Rukun presents a tired Israeli narrative: Israel as a willing partner for peace, Lebanon as a state held hostage by Hezbollah, and Iran as the destabilising…
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May 9, 2026
A.J. Nicholson | Vale Royal talks? Hurricane Melissa's milestone message
Whatever became of the officially-proposed pre-Hurricane Melissa expectant Vale Royal talks on constitutional reform?
In a recent interchange with a senior parliamentarian on that subject-matter, he…