Commentary
19 Apr, 2026
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Orville Taylor | No Türkiye: Who cries foul?
Although he went to Rabalac, Fedrick Dacres is one of the closest athletes to me ever. He and Kai Chang are such decent human beings who love their sport and their country. It was a proud struggle…
19 Apr, 2026
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Garth Rattray | When music becomes noise
Jamaica’s Noise Abatement Act of 1997 is up for review. Although noise is never musical, music can be [very] noisy. Loud music can be extremely invasive, disturbing, intensely unpleasant, blatantly…
19 Apr, 2026
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Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Jamaica’s oil gamble in the midst of a climate crisis
Whenever United Oil and Gas, a UK-based company with exploration rights in Jamaica, announces progress in its offshore exploration, a flurry of excitement ripples through Jamaica’s media and other…
18 Apr, 2026
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Editorial | Dealing effectively with autism
There isn’t a handle on the true scale of autism in Jamaica. It is estimated that one in 100 children (one per cent) is diagnosed with the disorder. The absence of hard data is allowing the scale…
18 Apr, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Bill Maher takes the high road
In Trinidad, when I was three years old, my aunt taught me to read from her daily English newspaper. Even then, I loved words and the world they opened to me. In my boyish days, I played with the…
18 Apr, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | Resolving CARICOM’s leadership impasse
As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than 50 years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional…
17 Apr, 2026
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Editorial | Transforming UHWI
The disclosure of the University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) J$18 billion debt to Jamaica’s tax authorities, adds another titillating bit to the tales of impunity and dysfunction the auditor…
17 Apr, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Don’t look now: we’ve been conquered!
Speaking at the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference on March 5, at US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) headquarters in Doral, Florida (Jamaica was among the 17 countries present), Peter Brian…
17 Apr, 2026
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Ruthlyn James | From the classroom to nowhere – Jamaica’s autism transition gap
Autism in Jamaica is a matter of structural failure across the very systems meant to carry a life from early childhood into adulthood. Because the truth is this: autism does not end in childhood, it…