Commentary

May 23, 2026

Tony Deyal | Time for women to get their write
Most of us did not know that differences between male and female writers, columnists, and, most importantly, comedians, are more in the social perceptions of their humour, rather than their ability to…
May 24, 2026

Dennis Minott | The Hanta death of accountability in modern Jamaica – Part One
South Africans have popularised a phrase that perfectly captures the creeping paralysis of Jamaican public accountability: the ‘Stalingrad strategy’. Born amid the labyrinthine legal manoeuvres…
May 24, 2026

Editorial | Opportunity to revisit Patterson report

No one is about to split hairs.  Nonetheless, it was peculiar, especially for the timing, that it was the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) and its chair, Trisha Williams-Singh, rather than the…
May 24, 2026

Mark Wignall | Stone-cold killers
Most or just all of us saw that video of the police shooting in Granville, Jamaica, this past weekend, which resulted in the horrible death of a woman. To say the least, it was chilling. Excessively…
May 24, 2026

Garth Rattray | Child’s Month and the age of consent
As a physician who has been seeing families for over four decades, many things impact me emotionally. However, one of the most striking events was witnessing a woman in her nineties recall and relate…
May 24, 2026

Byron Blake | People of western Jamaica at the risk of abandonment
April 28, was six months since the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Melissa flattened Western Jamaica. The response with emergency aid was remarkable. Ordinary Jamaicans and NGOs (local and abroad), the…
May 24, 2026

Orville Taylor | Do it right always
Lest we forget.  Our entire political framework; two political parties entrenched in Parliament are labour parties, established on the back or workers’ organisations. Since 1944, governments elected…
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May 22, 2026

Editorial | Tourism integration 
Edmund Bartlett’s call this week for collaboration by Caribbean countries to protect their vital tourism industries from global uncertainties again underlines the logic of regional integration. It…
May 22, 2026

Kristen Gyles | Who to believe the next time?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What of a video? One might watch the CCTV video footage of the fatal police shooting of Latoya Bulgin and be tempted to question the motive of the officer…