Commentary
18 Oct, 2025
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Orville Taylor | The award is for people like you
“Your future is connected to the West end.” This is the one thing on which my apocryphal high school principal and I agreed. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, to the Greater Glory of God. The West End is the…
17 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Questions for GG, IC
Now that Sir Patrick Allen is ready to proceed with the instruments of appointment for two critical jobs at the Integrity Commission (IC), the agency can, on its face, proceed with the important work…
17 Oct, 2025
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Denise Eldemire-Shearer | Caring for loved ones living with dementia
Recently, dementia has been discussed in several fora. According to a Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre 2016 study, dementia affects approximately seven per cent of the Jamaican population, but this…
17 Oct, 2025
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Byron Blake | Award and reward: Is there a difference?
In an increasingly transactional, materialistic, and individualistic world, the distinction between award and reward has become blurred. Service has been replaced by “what is in it for me” and civil…
17 Oct, 2025
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Garth Rattray | No consequences for impersonating a medical doctor
I have a lot of respect for and trust in our judicial system and for the judiciary. It, therefore, pains me to express a discordant view on the recent sentencing of 57-year-old Andrew Clarke. Andrew…
16 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Serious Vale Royal Talks
Happily, it was all a misunderstanding. Everyone misapprehended Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ intention when he appeared to relegate Opposition Leader Mark Golding, negotiating first with the justice…
16 Oct, 2025
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Peter Espeut | Old ways die hard
“Slavery is indeed scotched in our colonies, but it is not killed; its name is changed: its character remains to be changed hereafter”. [Special Magistrate Richard Robert…
16 Oct, 2025
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Tony Deyal | Calypso festival, light and spirit
There was a young woman called Starkie. Who had an affair with a darky. The result of her sins. Was quadruplets, not twins One black and one white and two khaki.
16 Oct, 2025
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Kristen Gyles | Prince charming and the damsel in financial distress
Recently, I had a conversation with a colleague that forced me to rethink the way I view gender roles especially within the context of a rapidly changing society. He asked me, “If you were married to…