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St James, where freedom was won by fire

Today, August 23, the world observes the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a global moment to honour those who resisted enslavement rather than simply endured…

Limestone-filtered water source at Jack Daniel’s Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee.
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Published 19 hours ago by Billy J. Stratton

The importance of teaching students what AI can’t do

It is disconcerting to envision human thought becoming redundant or deemed inferior due to advancements in artificial intelligence. But for all its ills, AI cannot be ignored or wished away. It is…
August 16, 2026

Medical career roadmap for a Caribbean student

The fictitious case of Kerlene Rumble and her mother, Linda Bissram. An A-QuEST General-Information Guidance Note Linda Bissram and her daughter, Kerlene Rumble, are entirely fictitious persons.…
August 16, 2026

Be a ‘mirror’, not a ‘camera’

A mirror and a camera both reflect what comes before them, but there is one important difference: a mirror reflects while a camera records and stores. When an image moves away from a mirror, nothing…
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
August 16, 2026

A prophet born in St Ann’s Bay

This week, Jamaica pauses to remember the birth of a man whose voice would eventually echo far beyond the small north-coast town where he took his first breath. August 17 marks the anniversary of the…
Governor General Patrick Allen laying a wreath at the monument of National Hero Marcus Garvey in National Heroes Park on the occasion of Garvey’s 130th birthday in August 2017.
August 9, 2026

The ground where our heroes rest

Last Thursday, Jamaica marked 64 years of Independence, commemorating August 6, 1962, when the Union Jack came down and the black, green, and gold rose over a nation newly free to chart its own…
August 9, 2026

Poems

Freedom calls, I answer Do you hear that ? That’s the sound of no alarm clock to suit another man’s time Do you smell that ? Most people breathe in bitterness, but I – I am inhaling liberation Do…