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Hanover Custos backs push for greater focus on STEAM, TVET subjects in schools

WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover Custos Lennox Anderson-Jackson has voiced strong support for educators advocating for greater recognition of STEAM and TVET subjects, emphasising that rapid technological…
Fishing boats dot the sea as cargo ships, in the background, sail through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz off the United Arab Emirates, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo)
April 9, 2026

Iran’s proposal to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz violates trade norms

To end the war with the United States and Israel, Iran is demanding the right to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a precondition for reopening the waterway vital to world oil supplies. Yet…
Letters
April 9, 2026

Menacing beggars and child abusers

THE EDITOR, Madam: I recently visited an establishment in Half Way Tree and encountered a situation that left me both reflective and deeply concerned. While there, a young woman approached me in a…
Letters
April 9, 2026

Who to blame for Caribbean Airlines losses?

THE EDITOR, Madam: Trinidad’s Guardian Express recently carried an investigative report suggesting that accumulated losses from former Air Jamaica routes, taken over by Caribbean Airlines (CAL) in…
Letters
April 9, 2026

Letter of the Day | A serious governance concern

THE EDITOR, Madam: The controversial reappointment of Dr Carla Barnett as CARICOM Secretary General raises fundamental questions of law, treaty compliance, and institutional legitimacy. This is not…
FILE - The United Nations logo is seen inside the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.
April 9, 2026

Editorial | Advancing reparations

This newspaper celebrates Ghana’s spearheading of last month’s United Nations resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and slavery “the gravest crime against humanity”. Indeed, a formal…
Hurricane Melissa was a devastating wakeup call about the brutality of extreme weather events to which Jamaica and the Caribbean are especially vulnerable because of climate change.
April 9, 2026

Earth Today | New EFJ podcast unpacks climate challenge for Jamaicans

THE PUBLIC now has the benefit of a new a podcast, one intended to help them make sense of climate change impacts, while placing them at the centre of conversations about how readiness can be…
A resident of Trinidad and Tobago stands in a large deposit of sargassum.
April 9, 2026

Earth Today | Managing biological invasions in a warming Caribbean

ACROSS THE Caribbean, species that do not belong are quietly reshaping our coasts and reefs, one spiny fin and drifting mat at a time. The lionfish is the poster child of this problem. With its…
Students show off their project at the recent JPS Foundation Climate Action Conference and Expo held in Kingston.
April 9, 2026

Earth Today | Young minds show off green solutions

AS CLIMATE change intensifies, Jamaica, like many small island developing states (SIDS), faces growing threats from flooding, heat stress, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. However,…