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 Ashleigh Onfroy
August 20, 2026

Ashleigh Onfroy | Bridging educational inequality in secondary schools

There is consensus among social scientists that education is the most critical vehicle for development. Among its by-products are employment, social stability and character formation. However, in…
Gabrielle Dajue (centre) with her parents, Robert Dajue (right) and Phillipea Dajue, while Crescent All-Age School Principal Harris Francis stands in the background.
August 20, 2026 by Ruddy Mathison

Beecher Foundation awards 45 scholarships to St Catherine students

For 23 years, the Beecher Foundation has left a lasting mark on education in St Catherine, rewarding academic excellence and helping promising students make the transition from primary to secondary…
Plastic in a waterway in Trinidad & Tobago.
August 20, 2026

Earth Today | Trash doesn’t stop at the shoreline

PICTURE A fisherman returning to shore somewhere in the Caribbean. Alongside his catch, tangled in his net, are plastic bottles, food wrappers, and a lone flip-flop that clearly didn’t come from…
Resident volunteers in Parottee, St Elizabeth do their part to clean up a degraded mangrove forest in the community during a Bulky Waste Cleanup, in celebration of World Wetlands Day in February. The clean-up was part of the RE-LEAF initiative.
August 20, 2026

Earth Today | Urban Forest Run to help restore tree cover in western Jamaica

JAMAICANS ARE encouraged to don their running shoes this weekend, in support of restoring the tree cover lost in western Jamaica with the passage of the devastating Hurricane Melissa last October. The…
 Lobster rolls from the cookbook ‘Home’ by Bryan Voltaggio.
August 20, 2026

Bryan Voltaggio makes his lobster rolls with a flavour-boosting soak

I’ve never been to Maine for a lobster roll, but the ones I’ve had in other places have been so good that I knew I needed to make one myself. This version is from my cookbook Home and is made with…
August 20, 2026

Earth Today | Report spotlights mental health cost of climate change

THE NEED to elevate mental health-related loss and damage from climate change as a key consideration for policymakers is among a set of recommendations from a recent global stocktake of national…
CCTV cameras
August 20, 2026

Editorial | JamaicaEye regulation

This newspaper has long supported the deployment of closed-circuit cameras in public spaces as tools to help fight and deter crime. When a crime takes place and the incident is recorded, that video…