Commentary

Dr Nicole Manning, director of operations, CXC (left) and Dr Wayne Wesley, Registrar and CEO, CXC.
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Editorial | If CTEC is to work ...

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has declared the pilot of its modular exam and certification in mathematics an unqualified success. So, it is now full speed ahead for the unrestricted roll-out of its Caribbean Targeted Education Certificate (CTEC) programme. It is likely that other subjects for which passes in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams have been historically unsatisfactory will soon join mathematics on the CTEC roster.

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Peter Espeut | Happy birthday, Marcus Garvey!

Last Monday – August 17 – was the birthday of Jamaica’s first declared National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), a truly great Jamaican. He had his flaws (as do all of us) but the cause he…
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Kristen Gyles | Money can’t buy motherhood

While women across the globe were having an average of five children in 1960, they are now having an average of two. This is a global phenomenon and not simply a local one. This is important to…
CCTV cameras
August 20, 2026

Editorial | JamaicaEye regulation

This newspaper has long supported the deployment of closed-circuit cameras in public spaces as tools to help fight and deter crime. When a crime takes place and the incident is recorded, that video…
Ashleigh Onfroy
August 20, 2026

Ashleigh Onfroy | Bridging educational inequality in secondary schools

There is consensus among social scientists that education is the most critical vehicle for development. Among its by-products are employment, social stability and character formation. However, in…
Hugh Wong Director of Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC), Heart Foundation of Jamaica.
August 20, 2026

Hugh Wong | Don’t wait – resuscitate: Why every Jamaican must learn CPR

We are taught from an early age how to wait. Waiting is a part of our day-to-day lives, whether it is sitting in traffic or standing in line to buy something. However, when it comes to cardiac arrest,…
Samuda
August 19, 2026

Editorial | Mandate rainwater harvesting

With two major water transmission and distribution projects under way on Jamaica’s north and south coasts, the government expects that, over the next three years, the island’s periodic water crises…
Leroy Fearon
August 19, 2026

Leroy Fearon | Mindset without discipline is still wishful thinking

In recent years, "mindset" has become one of the most celebrated concepts in personal and professional development. Bookstores are filled with titles promising to transform our thinking,…
August 19, 2026

Elizabeth Morgan | Kingston and St Andrew’s water woes: an impending crisis

This feels like the hottest summer ever experienced in Kingston and St Andrew to date, although the records say that, generally, 2023 was much hotter. This year, Jamaica is experiencing the effects of…
CCTV cameras
August 19, 2026

Norris McDonald | Who watches JDF’s ‘Big Yeye’ while it a watch we?

“ You can shackle the feet of men, But you can never chain their minds!” – Marcus Garvey Jamaica is rushing natty headfirst into a high-tech surveillance era, tracking citizens with biometric…