Commentary

Frequent fires at the Riverton City Landfill in St Andrew often result in life-threatening air pollution.
13 Sep, 2026 0

Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | When rights exist but justice is out of reach

“WE WAAH JUSTICE!” It is a phrase we have all seen on placards at various protests across Jamaica. But what does it mean to seek justice?
Devon Taylor
13 Sep, 2026 0

Devon Taylor and Emiel Martens | Beach dispossession in Jamaica: What’s the data really telling us?

In recent weeks, the Jamaican government has launched a campaign to counter the growing public discontent over beach access across the island. Instead of engaging with the discontent and acknowledging…
Garth Rattray
13 Sep, 2026 0

Garth Rattray | Follow-up visits are essential

A patient was well overdue for her routine follow-up and review of her medications. Before I had an opportunity to ask how she was doing, she asked me if, in the future, I could simply keep repeating…
Orville Taylor
13 Sep, 2026 0

Orville Taylor | Chinese benevolence makes sense

People act on the basis of how you make them feel, not merely what you say or do. A small number of students, just more than 100, at the tiny Kew Park Primary School in Westmoreland received a rapid…
House damaged by Hurricane Melissa in St Elizabeth, Jamaica last October.
12 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Case for climate finance

Given the scale of the destruction it faced from last month’s climate-related flash flooding, the US$20 million Nepal has requested from the United Nations’ Loss and Damage Fund is a small sum.…
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
12 Sep, 2026 0

Tony Deyal | Carapichaima: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

I was born in a place called Carapichaima in central Trinidad, and I will never, ever forget it. The reason was simple. It had people from different parts of Trinidad but also from other countries.…
Members of Parliament before at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament held on September 18, 2025 in Gordon House.
12 Sep, 2026 0

David Abrikian | Constitution considerations

In a 2025 article by Marlene Malahoo Forte, ‘Do Not Mislead’, referring to an earlier article by Peter Espeut, ‘The JLP Manifesto’, she claimed that he misled the public when he said that the…
Comments
11 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Gun law misfires?

When policy or laws deliver perverse or unintended outcomes, or threaten to do so, those who have the power to make adjustments must take note and consider necessary adjustments.
Students from Holy Trinity High School gather near the school gate after they were not permitted on ther school compound for a number of reasons ranging from bleaching and their pants being too tight.
11 Sep, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Misplaced school priorities

I wish schools would hate illiteracy and innumeracy as much as they hate tight khaki pants and hair extensions. The priorities of the education system deserve serious examination. In too many Jamaican…