Commentary
May 9, 2026
Editorial | Safeguarding children from abuse
There is no gainsaying that children and adolescents in Jamaica live under significant stress, often existing in the proximity of violence and other forms of abuse – or being the victims of…
May 10, 2026
Editorial | Grasping India’s pivot
Last week’s visit to Jamaica by India’s external affairs minister, Dr S Jaishankar, should be read as more than diplomatic reflex – or a nicety to a now peripheral country of the Girmitiya, the…
May 9, 2026
Tony Deyal | Where do we go from here?
Zeno Obi Constance is by far the best in the Caribbean and beyond. This article is part of an attempt to reach, teach and increase our knowledge and commitment of our development.
May 9, 2026
Ronald Sanders | The Caribbean’s limits in absorbing other states’ deportees
Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws.
May 9, 2026
Garth Rattray | Ode to mother
Even as a child, I wondered why my siblings and I called our mother ‘Mother’. We never called her ‘Mom’, ‘Mommy’, ‘Moms’, ‘Momsy’, ‘Mamma’, ‘Mum’, ‘Mummy’, or ‘Ma’. There was no historical or cultural…
May 9, 2026
Orville Taylor | Mothers’ every day
“You're what I celebrate, You're like a never ending holiday. You're my forever special occasion.”
Dorothy Moore, sang that almost 50 years ago; two years after the UN dedicated 1975…
May 9, 2026
Xinyu Addae-Lee | Maternity care under the radar
Reports in the Jamaica Observer some time ago have once again placed maternity care under public scrutiny — from the tragic death of a newborn at Cornwall Regional Hospital to accounts of a difficult…
May 9, 2026
Editorial | Choosing the football coach
As was widely anticipated, Rudolph Speid has been named to continue as Jamaica’s interim national football coach for the four-team, Unity Cup, to be held in England this month.