Letters
03 Oct, 2026
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Letter of the Day | Strict gun laws must be balanced with common sense
THE EDITOR, Madam: Every well-thinking Jamaican desires strict gun laws and a murder-free Jamaica. However, this must not come at the expense of common sense. I am highlighting some real-life…
03 Oct, 2026
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The UN’s great contradiction
THE EDITOR, Madam: When formed in 1945 to replace the League of Nations after World War II, the objectives of the United Nations were to maintain international peace and security; to protect human…
03 Oct, 2026
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The need for AI safeguards
THE EDITOR, Madam: An AI agent employs autonomous software that utilises a large language model (LLM) as its ‘brain’ to reason, plan, and execute multi-step tasks. Standard AI agents underpin…
02 Oct, 2026
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Letter of the Day | Beware of the invisible camera!
THE EDITOR, Madam: Wearable cameras or smart glasses are rapidly moving from novelty to normality. Smart glasses can take photographs, record conversations, and interpret what the wearer sees.
02 Oct, 2026
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Jamaica has a salary problem, but we keep calling it a cost-of-living problem This is true enuh, the wages paid to Jamaicans are abysmal compared to the cost of living. - @unbrash Only someone…
01 Oct, 2026
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Letter of the Day | The PNP and the coming AI divide
THE EDITOR, Madam: I have a word of advice for the People’s National Party: artificial intelligence should become one of the major intellectual questions the party begins addressing now. Not simply…
01 Oct, 2026
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Beyond lip service on childhood cancer
THE EDITOR, Madam: By the time this letter reaches you, September, ‘Children’s Cancer Awareness Month’, will have passed. This letter is as much an attempt to prolong childhood cancer awareness as it…
01 Oct, 2026
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The Shanghai breakthrough: Why TVET and STEM are Jamaica’s true engines of economic growth
THE EDITOR, Madam: When news reached Jamaica last month that Brandon Brown had won a historic gold medal in optoelectronic technology at the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai, the nation felt…
30 Sep, 2026
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Letter of the Day | Jamaica must build new engines of growth
THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent report that IBEX reduced its Jamaican workstations while expanding operations in the Philippines should cause us to examine the changing global BPO landscape and, more…