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This photo shows Digicel building where NaRRA is proposing to house their offices.

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Gordon Robinson | Why so expensive paper pushers?

So National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) has started with neither bang nor whimper but a loud, smelly belch. Or has it? Started I mean? I ask because the 40-million-dollar man (Steve Austin is green, no pun intended, with envy; in 1973, when The six-million-dollar man first aired, US$6m could only buy J$5.4m) said NaRRA should be “up and running” by the end of the year. Really? Seriously?

18 Oct, 2026 0

Mark Wignall | Shelly-Ann taught us well

In watching Shelly-Ann Fraser (Pocket Rocket) give freely of her excess of naivety at her first big outing in 2008, she seemingly asks herself, as we gaze at her totality and glimpse back at her…

The Caribbean Court of Justice in Port of Spain

18 Oct, 2026 0

A.J. Nicholson | Wielding the awesome power of overlords

For their Heroes Week get-together at their village in the foothills of Bull Head Mountain, the pre-determined topic for discussion by Farmer Joe and his compadres was: “This governing political party…

FIFA president Gianni Infantino (left) and JFF president Michael Ricketts at the Jamaica-Guatemala Nations League football match at the National Stadium in St Andrew on Friday, September 25.

18 Oct, 2026 0

Don Dobson | FIFA, Infantino, JFF and the dark side of sports governance

Gianni Infantino’s re-election campaign is in full swing, with the Caribbean emerging as a key battleground. The region’s 21 votes could prove decisive in whether he secures the 106 required to retain…

Representational image of a tired doctor.

18 Oct, 2026 0

Xinyu Addae Lee | Where is the line of reasonableness for hospitalised patients?

The healthcare system has been in sharp focus recently. There is a constant outcry regarding the low standard of care that pervades hospitals across the country. Whether that be related to long…

In this photo taken on October 29, 2025, residents are seen walking through Santa Cruz after Hurricane Melissa passed.

18 Oct, 2026 0

Dennis A. Minott | What can go so, Dr Holness Government?

A question now circulates through Jamaican public discourse with growing urgency: whose economic reality is NaRRA’s executive compensation package designed to serve? For a nation still struggling with…

Students and staff at Aberdeen High School in Aberdeen, St Elizabeth, advance reconstruction of the institution’s tuck shop, which was decimated by Hurricane Melissa.

18 Oct, 2026 0

Imani Tafari-Ama | Reconstruction is also about priorities

Almost a year after Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica, a rather extraordinary juxtaposition confronts us. On one side is the continuing struggle of Jamaicans whose homes, livelihoods and…

People walk out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins to speak during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Thursday.

11 Oct, 2026 0

Peta Gay Ferguson | When principle comes at a price

There was a time when Jamaica understood that being small did not mean we had to speak small. We emerged into independence without great military or economic power, but with our voice, our history,…

11 Oct, 2026 0

Delano Seiveright | Government cannot supply your ambition

I recently addressed students at The University of the West Indies’ inaugural International Undergraduate Student Leadership Conference and Entrepreneurship Exhibition, organised under the leadership…

A dungeon at Cape Coast Castle, a “slave castle” used in the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, is seen in Cape Coast, Ghana.

11 Oct, 2026 0

Huon Wardle | ‘It’s complicated’ can be the start of a richer conversation

The phrase ‘it’s complicated’ is often used to end difficult conversations. But when it comes to understanding the afterlives of slavery and trying to capture attention to the international…