Commentary
13 Sep, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Chinese benevolence makes sense
People act on the basis of how you make them feel, not merely what you say or do. A small number of students, just more than 100, at the tiny Kew Park Primary School in Westmoreland received a rapid…
12 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Case for climate finance
Given the scale of the destruction it faced from last month’s climate-related flash flooding, the US$20 million Nepal has requested from the United Nations’ Loss and Damage Fund is a small sum.…
12 Sep, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Carapichaima: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
I was born in a place called Carapichaima in central Trinidad, and I will never, ever forget it. The reason was simple. It had people from different parts of Trinidad but also from other countries.…
12 Sep, 2026
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David Abrikian | Constitution considerations
In a 2025 article by Marlene Malahoo Forte, ‘Do Not Mislead’, referring to an earlier article by Peter Espeut, ‘The JLP Manifesto’, she claimed that he misled the public when he said that the…
11 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Gun law misfires?
When policy or laws deliver perverse or unintended outcomes, or threaten to do so, those who have the power to make adjustments must take note and consider necessary adjustments.
11 Sep, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Misplaced school priorities
I wish schools would hate illiteracy and innumeracy as much as they hate tight khaki pants and hair extensions. The priorities of the education system deserve serious examination. In too many Jamaican…
11 Sep, 2026
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Peter Espeut | From the backyard to the front lawn
On Monday, September 7, Donald Trump, the president of imperial America, posted a map on Truth Social showing Canada, Greenland, Iceland (the Arctic), Mexico, Panama (and much of the rest of Central…
10 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Welcome to JamRROC!
This newspaper remains disappointed that a governance oversight body was not established in legislation for the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the special-purpose vehicle…
10 Sep, 2026
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Basil Jarrett | That Lindsay Clancy case hurts more than it helps women
A lawyer friend once said to me that she deliberately tries not to pay too much attention to the American legal system because sometimes it simply makes no sense whatsoever. Even if Charles Dickens…