Commentary
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…
05 Oct, 2026
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Wayne Campbell | Standing with teachers
Around the world, teachers continue to face excessive workloads, insufficient salaries, growing administrative burdens, a growing culture of disrespect, poor working conditions, attacks on academic…
05 Oct, 2026
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Damion Crawford | Standing with our teachers while standing together for our children
Today, as we celebrate World Teachers’ Day under the theme, ‘Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures’, I want us to focus on one…
05 Oct, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Treacherous political and economic waters
That is what our leader says Jamaica is facing. Most of us knew this to be the case long ago. We live that unsettling truth every day when we go to the shop or buy gas. Oligarchs and fellow travellers…