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Editorial | Democracy and a free press 

There wasn’t much of a fanfare in marking World Press Freedom Day on Sunday.  Jamaica remains 26th out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index, with a score (75.87) that places the island in a category where press freedom is satisfactory. Jamaican journalists are largely free to do their jobs.

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Ruthlyn James | When healing environments harm - Rethinking hospital care for neurodivergent children 
At the Bustamante Hospital for Children, there is an opportunity for Jamaica to be a regional leader, to redefine how Jamaica understands paediatric care within a nation that has already committed,…
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SSP Diaries | Senior citizens living alone is dangerous
Every family has had the experience of relatives who are aged and live alone. Invariably, concerns arise, not so much when they are couples that can cope, but more so when one of the parties has…
May 6, 2026

Editorial | CARICOM breakthrough?  
There is a spark of optimism that a private trip to Port-of-Spain by St Lucia’s Prime Minister Phillip Pierre, which morphed into a mini-summit with his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Kamla…
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May 6, 2026

Elizabeth Morgan | Foreign policy dilemma facing CARICOM member states
A US State Department press release of April 28 was quite enlightening. It was a joint statement in support of Panama’s sovereignty issued jointly by the US, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Paraguay, and…
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May 6, 2026

Maziki Thame | Education for a better Jamaica
Many Jamaicans are deeply concerned and are therefore engaged in a debate about our need to build a better society. We may not all agree on what that society should look like, but many believe the…
May 5, 2026

Editorial | Move to bodycam reset
Anyone who had a contrary interpretation of Horace Chang’s original remark ought to accept his explanation that he was either misquoted, or taken out of context, in reports saying that the current…
May 5, 2026

Michael McAnuff-Jones and Howard Mitchell | ​NaRRA: towards a middle model - securing speed through collaborative governance
Jamaica stands at a pivotal moment of national reconstruction. The proposed National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) has been envisioned by the Government as an “implementation…
May 5, 2026

Gordon Robinson | The essence of leadership
In Apocrypha, our favourite Fantasyland, Promises Not Performance (PNP) Leader, Bark Balding, considered putting Oma D’unn’s number on speed dial. Readers remember Oma whose consultancy firm, Oma…
May 4, 2026

Editorial | CARICOM’s aid to Cuba
Donald Trump’s latest sanctions against Cuba have rightly drawn questions about the status of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM’s) plan to provide humanitarian assistance to their regional…