Commentary
07 Oct, 2026
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Elizabeth Morgan | Is food security further at risk in Jamaica?
Last week, this column looked at Jamaica’s declining goods exports which included agricultural products. This week, the food import bill and the costs of agricultural produce are cause for concern.…
07 Oct, 2026
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Desmond Robinson | Artificial intelligence vs supernatural intelligence
When Geoffrey Hinton, revered across the globe as a founding godfather of artificial intelligence, abruptly resigned from Google, he stepped into the light to sound a terrifying global alarm. AI, he…
06 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Collision of crowns
It is not known what constitutional advice King Charles sought, or received, before referring Jamaica’s request for an advisory opinion on whether slavery was ever legal under English law to the…
06 Oct, 2026
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Dean Jones | Homes up. Jobs where?
Jamaica is building a new north coast. Thousands of homes are rising across St Mary, St Ann, Trelawny, St James, Hanover and Westmoreland. Gated communities are spreading, apartment developments are…
06 Oct, 2026
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Michael Abrahams | The hidden toll of childhood sexual abuse
Last month, two news reports deeply disturbed me. The first was about the rape of a 10-year-old girl. The incident took place one morning when, after alighting from a taxi at the entrance to a housing…
06 Oct, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | The essence of identification
In Apocrypha, our favourite Fantasyland beyond the stars where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solves political dilemmas by parable, Government’s slavery reparations strategy came under…
05 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Education reconstruction
Education Minister Dana Morris Dixon’s establishment last month of a committee to monitor the rehabilitation of schools damaged by Hurricane Melissa has not halted criticism by the teachers’ union of…
05 Oct, 2026
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Leroy Fearon | Born to teach: When a birthday meets a calling
There are birthdays we celebrate with cake, candles and photographs. Then there are birthdays that invite us to pause and ask a deeper question: What have I done with the life I have been given? For…
05 Oct, 2026
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Janiel McEwan | The salary is not the whole problem: Jamaica’s cost-of-living crisis runs much deeper
A worker gets paid on a Friday afternoon. The number on the pay slip has not changed since last year. The grocery bill has. The rent has. The taxi fare from Half-Way Tree to Papine has. The JPS bill…