Commentary
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,…
01 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Don’t waste the crisis, CWI!
Chris Dehring’s recent marketing jargon-infused video report on the financial crisis facing West Indies cricket and what Cricket West Indies (CWI) is doing about it had three profound flaws. First, as…
01 Oct, 2026
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Janiel McEwan | How a global price becomes a local one
A woman in a Montego Bay supermarket taps her card and watches the total come back higher than she expected, not dramatically, just enough to make her check the receipt twice against a basket of…
01 Oct, 2026
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Peter Champagnie | Justice demands a review of the Firearms Act
The disagreement over aspects of the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, which recently resulted in members of the Jamaican Bar Association and the Advocates Association…
01 Oct, 2026
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Chelan Smith | The opposition is paying attention … someone else isn’t
In an article in August - “Back to Square One” - Peter Espeut asked whether the People’s National Party was bothered by the Government’s abandonment of procurement guidelines or whether it was “just…
30 Sep, 2026
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Editorial | Sparrow: The King lives
In one of his later interviews, Slinger Francisco, known to the world as the Mighty Sparrow, said of calypsonians: “We are the self-appointed mouthpiece of the under-privileged.” Sparrow’s voice was…
30 Sep, 2026
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Dean Jones | Safety, justice and home
Jamaica’s latest argument over illegal firearms is taking place in courtrooms, Parliament and the legal profession, but its consequences reach much further. They reach into communities where families…