Commentary
04 Oct, 2026
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Rattan Lal | The FAO faces a new agricultural revolution
Humanity faces a paradox. We have never had so much scientific and technological knowledge to produce food, yet the need to transform the way we produce it has never been more evident. The Green…
04 Oct, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Doctoring the IDT
‘Patients’ and ‘patience’ are homophones, and we would be unreasonable to deny that the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) has lots of both. With a doctor-patient ratio of 0.5 to 1,000,…
04 Oct, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Is it aptitude, attitude, or both?
The school term is in full swing once again and, although a child’s performance in school depends on a wide variety of external influences, I can’t help thinking that more children could do better if…
03 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | The crisis of a grey Jamaica
The Government’s proposed public education programme, targeting families and other unpaid caregivers of elderly Jamaicans, is a welcome and necessary initiative. People over 60 are Jamaica’s…
03 Oct, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Siparia: The beat goes on
I was reading The World’s Best Book and found what they considered the most amazing people: the Living Man, the Tallest Man, the Animal Lover, the Shortest Man, and even a Tallest Woman, an Oldest…
03 Oct, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | Other people’s wars, Caribbean bills
The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran or the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying…
02 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | The Kamla-Delcy rapprochement
The recent meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly between Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez and Trinidad and Tobago’s Kamla Persad-Bissessar is good for their countries. It is also positive for…
02 Oct, 2026
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Peter Espeut | A mighty tree has fallen
A few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. Baptist minister the Rev Dr Neville George Callam passed away on August 15 while on a visit to the United States. At his funeral last week, many said he will be…
02 Oct, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Who wrote the SBA?
I have had the privilege of not only performing School-Based Assessments (SBAs) for subjects I sat at the CSEC level, but also marking SBAs for students sitting CSEC exams. In my days sitting CSEC,…