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Members of Parliament before at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament held on September 18, 2025 in Gordon House.
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Mickel Jackson | When Parliament sentences instead of the judge

Illegal firearms remain the principal instrument of murder, robbery and intimidation. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether a 15-year mandatory minimum, applied indiscriminately to possession of a prohibited weapon, including an imitation firearm that cannot fire a round, is a just or even effective way to confront that violence.

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Trevor Hamilton
20 Sep, 2026 0

Trevor Hamilton | Myths about the Jamaican education policy imperatives

The newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), in her annual address to educators, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the sector, used Singapore as a benchmark…
Photo shows a buzz of activity in the downtown Kingston shopping area.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Peta-Gay Ferguson | If you want to talk about Jamaica, let us talk

It appears that Senator Abka Fitz-Henley has developed a penchant for cutting and pasting the same tired sermon of his opinion of the People’s National Party (PNP). Having apparently run out of…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness
20 Sep, 2026 0

Mark Wignall | Still giving Dr Holness a chance

Some politicians attain the status of ‘sacred cow’ for the majority of their lives. Michael Manley was one such human being. It helps to be good-looking. It first manifests itself by many women…
Culture Minister Olivia Grange stands in front of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council building in London, England, holding the historic reparations petition document filed to King Charles III.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations, sovereignty and the politics of justice

Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the King of England as Jamaica’s head of state…
Students from Holy Trinity High School gather near the school gate after they were not permitted on ther school compound for a number of reasons ranging from bleaching and their pants being too tight.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Gordon Robinson | It’s a miseducation emergency

So, debate on Jamaica’s education is the latest piece of evidence supporting the conclusion JLP and PNP are about as different as six and half-a-dozen.
20 Sep, 2026 0

Dennis A. Minott | A needed legal doctrine for Delanifying Bartlettities

There are moments when a country needs more than another regulation, another commission, or another press conference. It needs a doctrine. Jamaica may now need one called the Doctrine of…
An aerial view of Black River, Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
13 Sep, 2026 0

Donna Parchment Brown | Hurt people, blue tarpaulins and broken businesses

Hurricanes Beryl and Melissa have given us an opportunity to do some new things and to do some old things in a new way. St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover, St James, Trelawny, and other affected…
Gordon Robinson
13 Sep, 2026 0

Gordon Robinson | Serves them right!

Jamaica’s allegedly sovereign Government crossed the Atlantic, cap in hand, to beg (oops, sorry, “petition”) our enslavers’ King for slavery reparations. Have we no shame? Are we so accustomed to…
13 Sep, 2026 0

Dennis A Minott | From the Rupununi chaparro to the reef

A beach can remain public on paper while becoming privately unavailable in practice. Put up a gate, station a guard along the approach road, leave access unmarked, or make the route so awkward that…