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Updated 23 hours ago

Ronald Thwaites | The ‘rude boy’ mentality

‘If children acquire the values of goodness, you don't have to discipline the adults’. These wise words are attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Many of us have yet to…
Updated 23 hours ago

Aubrey Stewart | NaRRA will be judged by what it delivers 

The parliamentary debate over the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) Act has now ended; the legislation has passed. And yet the argument continues, as the questions raised about…
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Updated 12 hours ago

Francesca Tavares | On War and the West [Part II]: All eyes on Taiwan

In the preceding analysis of the global crisis, the focus remained on the "head of the snake" in Tehran and the erosion of Western institutional integrity. However, to view the instability…
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May 17, 2026

Editorial | Opportunity in Damion Crawford’s case

Damion Crawford’s lawsuit claiming that Jamaica is in breach of its constitutional mandate of providing free pre-primary and primary education to the island’s children will open a new front in the…
May 17, 2026

Danielle Archer | The Caribbean healthcare crisis we keep calling ‘normal’

Prior to COVID-19, during COVID-19 and even now, I have been deeply moved by the calibre of care we received in our public hospitals. When those personal encounters are placed alongside the…
May 17, 2026

Garth Rattray | Compassionate care in a digital world

The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) is a not-for-profit professional organisation founded in 1972. It represents the interests of family physicians and general practitioners and is…
May 17, 2026

Orville Taylor | Appropriate language and symbols

Once you hear it you cannot unhear it. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Sometimes people go to great lengths in order to defend the indefensible. Something is not right simply because it is…
May 17, 2026

Erja Askola | European Union and Jamaica: Why partnership matters more than ever

Every year on May 9, Europe Day, a commemoration of peace, unity, and cooperation,is celebrated. In 1950, only five years after the devastation of the Second World War, six European countries, some of…
May 16, 2026

Editorial | The burden of salt

Jamaica’s growing crisis with non-communicable diseases has a direct correlation with what people are eating every day. High salt consumption is one of the key factors driving hypertension, heart…