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Ronald Thwaites | Defending principles

It can't be good for any nation when its government habitually savages its own credibility while considering itself triumphant. Don't they think things through? Don't they listen to the cries of ordinary people?  Check the searing truth and distress in Michael Abrahams chant “People Bawling Under Tarpaulin”. 

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May 23, 2026

Editorial | Guardrails for close-in-age law 
The ongoing debate over a close-in-age exception to the Sexual Offences Act warrants open and honest discussions.  The public discourse for an issue that’s sensitive, involving children, consent,…
Updated 21 hours ago

Jalil Dabdoub | Democracy and tribalism: Jamaica’s dangerous political culture
May 23, 2026

Dianne Ashton-Smith | Community-based approach to alcohol misuse deserves support
The approach outlined by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton in this year’s sectoral debate presentation deserves serious consideration, because it signals a more mature and…
May 23, 2026

Tony Deyal | Time for women to get their write
Most of us did not know that differences between male and female writers, columnists, and, most importantly, comedians, are more in the social perceptions of their humour, rather than their ability to…
Updated 21 hours ago

Dennis Minott | The Hanta death of accountability in modern Jamaica – Part One
South Africans have popularised a phrase that perfectly captures the creeping paralysis of Jamaican public accountability: the ‘Stalingrad strategy’. Born amid the labyrinthine legal manoeuvres…
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Editorial | Opportunity to revisit Patterson report

No one is about to split hairs.  Nonetheless, it was peculiar, especially for the timing, that it was the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) and its chair, Trisha Williams-Singh, rather than the…
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Mark Wignall | Stone-cold killers
Most or just all of us saw that video of the police shooting in Granville, Jamaica, this past weekend, which resulted in the horrible death of a woman. To say the least, it was chilling. Excessively…
Updated 21 hours ago

Garth Rattray | Child’s Month and the age of consent
As a physician who has been seeing families for over four decades, many things impact me emotionally. However, one of the most striking events was witnessing a woman in her nineties recall and relate…
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Byron Blake | People of western Jamaica at the risk of abandonment
April 28, was six months since the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Melissa flattened Western Jamaica. The response with emergency aid was remarkable. Ordinary Jamaicans and NGOs (local and abroad), the…