Commentary
June 8, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | Managed decline
Robert is a member in the downtown church where I serve. His quality of life is being progressively diminished by cataracts. He has already had to give up his job as a driver. If untreated, blindness…
June 8, 2026
Shinique Walters | From grants to growth...How much community change should aid funding deliver after Hurricane Melissa?
Months after the destruction of Hurricane Melissa, particularly across southern and western Jamaica, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has shared that it has spent…
June 7, 2026
Editorial | FLA has work to do
The flat rejection by Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) chairman, retired judge Glenworth Brown, of the authority continuing to seek judicial review of the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on…
June 7, 2026
Nekeisha Burchell | Permission to chat – language and identity in Jamaica today
A few weeks ago, people found themselves having a conversation that stretched far beyond our shores. It was a conversation about language, but it was also a conversation about identity, history, and…
June 7, 2026
Aubrey Stewart | Navigating democracy’s necessary tension
Often, there is a public clash between the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM). Commissioner Kevin Blake argues that officers deserve support…
June 7, 2026
Carolyn Cooper | Lisa Hanna from bathroom to boardroom
On April 8, Ms Lisa Hanna delivered the 16th Annual Aggrey Brown Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the Caribbean School of Media and Communication at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Her topic…
June 7, 2026
Orville Taylor | Flagging the Cup
We did go for history and go for cup, and succeeded at one. Watching the teams parade, including our infinitesimal Caribbean neighbours, Curaçao and our fellow Africans, the Democratic Republic of the…
June 7, 2026
Garth Rattray | Rethink and rename ‘obesity’
The medical sciences are in constant flux. Understandably, this may cause some degree of scepticism, confusion, and a loss of confidence among some medical practitioners but more so among…
June 6, 2026
Editorial | Navigating complexities of parenting
Christopher Tufton is right to place parenting among five critical pillars to be addressed as Jamaica seeks to reverse its stagnant - and declining - population growth.
For the health minister…