Commentary

21 Sep, 2026 0

Ronald Thwaites | Diminishing justice

Last week, the minister of justice and the chief justice variously acknowledged that the Jamaican court system, particularly the Supreme Court, cannot dispose of all the cases before it within any…
21 Sep, 2026 0

Haleigh Marshall | Literacy deserves a rights-based focus

Growing up, one of the common adages we were told in school was that “reading makes a full man”, or a full woman in my case. As I got older, I began to understand that concept in a more fulsome way.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Unclogging the justice system

The intervention by prosecutor Janek Forbes into the debate over the insufficient use of plea bargaining in Jamaica expands the opportunity for a fulsome review of the reasons, including how the…
Workers at the Rio Cobre Water Treatment Plant during a site tour on Wednesday.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Mariame McIntosh Robinson | Is Jamaica facing a human capital crisis or opportunity?

A challenge often cited by businesses is access to capital, and Jamaica has made significant advances in deepening its sources of equity capital, while banks continue to be a staple of the financial…
Orville Taylor
20 Sep, 2026 0

Orville Taylor | Worrying suicide rate

One of my favourite callers on Radio Jamaica 94 FM Hotline, in his usual fashion, pulled an item of national significance from the news. The topic was suicide, and the story appeared in the Jamaica…
Garth Rattray
20 Sep, 2026 0

Garth Rattray | My views on reparations for slavery

Culture Minister Olivia Grange led a Jamaican delegation to London to hand-deliver a petition addressed to King Charles III, asking him to “refer three legal questions to the Judicial Committee of the…
Byron Blake
20 Sep, 2026 0

Byron Blake | What does ‘consultation’ mean for the victims of Hurricane Melissa?

Consultation. A most-used, perhaps abused, term in modern democracies and media. Politicians and policymakers claim that they are always involved in it. Constituents are always demanding it. But…
Chuck
19 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Encourage mediation and restorative justice

As Jamaica prepares to observe International Peace Day on Monday, this week’s reiteration by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck of his years-old proposal for a major expansion of conflict mediation…
19 Sep, 2026 0

Tony Deyal | Cocoa tea

(This is to remember the great Colvin George Scott, the best Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter, born on September 3, 1949, and who died on March 11, 2025. And Zeno Obi Constance is by far the…