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Dennis Zulu | Jamaica’s digital future begins in the classroom

Jamaica has entered the final year of implementation of the Government of Jamaica and United Nations SDG Joint Programme on Digital Transformation for Education, a flagship initiative supported…
 Douglas Orane
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Douglas Orane | Jamaica’s source of competitive advantage in athletics

“How is it that Jamaican high school athletes go to the Penn Relays and consistently outperform North American teams that have vastly more financial resources?” This was a question asked of me…
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Orville Taylor | I stand with Bert et al

If you missed it, never mind. It has no expiry date. On July 5, veteran attorney and pan-Africanist Bert Samuels launched the Kumasi Museum. The name, derived from the capital of Ghana’s Ashanti…
Garth Rattray
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Garth Rattray | We are depleting and damaging our aquifers

There aren’t enough green spaces being provided and preserved. Urban development, expansion, deforestation, paving, and other changes to the land prevent rainfall from soaking into the ground. The…
Representational image of graduates throwing their caps
August 15, 2026

Editorial | Empower youth to succeed

Jamaica’s youth, who comprise 28 per cent of the island’s population, remain disproportionately at risk. For example, at 11.7 per cent, youth unemployment is nearly three times the national average.…
August 15, 2026

Tony Deyal | Cats are funny too

Many years ago, I read about Shakespeare’s Hamlet when Polonius enjoined his son, Laertes, saying, “Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.” In other words, there is a very fine line dividing both…
A girl rests at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
August 15, 2026

Ronald Sanders | Haiti – Stop the money flow to organised crime

Haiti’s plight must not be forgotten simply because it no longer features regularly in international headlines. The suffering has not diminished. Between January and early June 2026, at least 2,310…
Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
August 14, 2026

Editorial | PM Gaston Browne must apologise

It is unfortunate that Gaston Browne’s attempted walk-back of his assault on the judiciary this week did not include an unambiguous apology for his threat to deport and declare persona non grata a…
People carry water during a power outage in Havana, Cuba.
August 14, 2026

Peter Espeut | Can leopards change their spots?

Knowledge of history provides insights into the present and peeks into the future. I hope this little excursus is of interest. In 1823, James Monroe, the fifth US president (1817-1825), declared US…