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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…
May 29, 2026

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…
May 29, 2026

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…
May 27, 2026

Norris R. McDonald | Maroons, minerals and Jamaica’s ‘symbolic nationalism’
Without the search for gold, expanded bauxite reserves, and the growing interest in lithium extraction, there would perhaps be far less urgency surrounding the Maroon land question in Accompong and…
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May 27, 2026

Janiel McEwan | Sending Home [Part I]: The Lifeline
For Jamaicans abroad, sending money home has never been just about money. In a living room in May Pen, Clarendon, one December evening not so long ago, Miss Mavis sat forward on her settee while…
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May 27, 2026

Artificial Intelligence: Another critical issue of our time
At the time of writing, it is the Labour Day holiday here in Jamaica.  This is also coinciding with the US’s Memorial Day, which officially honours those in that country’s military who died in their…
May 26, 2026

Editorial | Eye on modular math
By most public accounts, the pilot in Jamaica – before the full rollout next year – of the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) modular or bite-sized exam in mathematics went more than reasonably…