Commentary
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | Why do people become suicidal?
Whenever someone dies by suicide, one of the most common reactions is to ask the question “Why?”. Most of us have never thought of taking our own lives. Persons who do, or attempt to do so, are…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Grow older; never grow old
Today “senior citizen care” has become a national concern. 1970s family planning policies kept our population below 3,000,000. But, consequently, it’s an ageing population. If migration is brought…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Embrace INDECOM’s report
This week’s special report by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) on fatal shootings by the police during planned police operations (PPO) is probably discomfiting reading for the…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Exoneration? Not at all!
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word “exonerate” means “to absolve from blame for fault or wrongdoing”. The Merriam-Webster dictionary from the other side of the pond defines it as “to clear…
December 9, 2025
Kristen Gyles | Public sector politics
What exactly constitutes political activities? Dr Aujae Dixon, a Jamaican junior doctor, who participated in the September 3 general election as the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Outrage over Commodore, but …
Even as this newspaper shares the national outrage over the murder of five people – including a four-year-old child – in Sunday’s mass shooting in the community of Commodore, Linstead, St. Catherine…
December 9, 2025
Crime Stop works: Yet still we remain silent
THE CURTAINS had barely come down on last Sunday’s Crime Stop 36th Anniversary Gala event at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, when news came of Jamaica’s latest mass shooting, this time in Linstead, St…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Good sense on Constitution
This newspaper may have misread Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ posture on constitutional reform in the immediate aftermath of last month’s general election. As we indicated in our October 2 comment in…
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | The illegal trade in exotic animals, heritage artefacts, guns, and drugs
ILLEGAL TRADE is one of the reasons why Jamaica’s 2018 national trade policy promoted the mainstreaming of trade, ensuring that trade, legal and illegal, are reflected in the policies of the relevant…