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Nand C. Bardouille | Why CARICOM’s diplomatic nadir lingers

A closely watched recent meeting of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers called for the bloc’s member states to lean into “unified action” in the face of what its Secretary-General Carla Barnett characterised as an “unpredictable global landscape”, underscoring the importance of a so-called “dual approach”.

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Irina D. Manta | Proposed green card policy could wrongly assume legal immigrants are evading the law
More than half a million people rely every year on the ability to apply from within the United States for a green card, the government-issued ID that allows an immigrant to legally live and work in…
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May 28, 2026

Editorial | Rebuilding values
Few people will be surprised by the findings of a more-than-year-old survey – some of which were released this week – showing that a significant share of Jamaicans is willing to use shortcuts to get…
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Editorial | CARICOM’s free movement

It obviously doesn’t have the same weight as the labour mobility pact between Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines. However, this week’s agreement between Barbados and Guyana…
May 28, 2026

Chad Rattray  | Remote work must become part of Jamaica’s work culture and resilience strategy
Jamaica’s formal economy has long relied on face-to-face transactions, traditional office routines, and the standard 9-to-5 work model. For many institutions, physical presence has been treated as the…
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May 28, 2026

Janiel McEwan | Sending Home [Part II]: The Digital Crossing
Even formal systems proved vulnerable, however. In the early 2010s, diaspora senders began to notice something was wrong. Transfers that had moved reliably for years suddenly slowed. Accounts were…
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Peter Espeut | Abolishing the age of consent
It is my view that the effort to enact a close-in-age exception to the Sexual Offences Act will lead to the effective abolition of the age of consent for sexual intercourse. The Gleaner in its…
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Kristen Gyles | Free 15-point customer service training manual
Few topics unite Jamaicans like complaints about customer service. Whether it is having to spend half the day waiting in several lines at a government office, being ignored in a restaurant, or getting…
May 28, 2026

  SSP Diaries | Early Warnings
VEHICLE PARKING NMIA The car park at Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) is in urgent need of proper management and adequate resources to operate at an acceptable standard. For over a year…
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May 27, 2026

 Editorial | New front in Patois debate 
Nekeisha Burchell knew beforehand that opening her intervention in Parliament’s Sectoral Debate in Jamaican Patois (Jamiekan) would elicit a reminder from Speaker Juliet Holness that Patois was not…