Commentary
February 5, 2026
Editorial | Kudos, Audrey Marks
Seven years ago, in November 2018, this newspaper recommended to the Government the value of leading by example. It had to do with a full rollout in the public sector of flexible work arrangements.…
February 5, 2026
Basil Jarrett | Flexi-work and the end of the 9-5
Two years ago, I wrote two columns pleading for us to stop treating the 9-5 workday like one of the Ten Commandments. I argued for work-from-home, four-day work weeks, and staggered hours, recognising…
February 5, 2026
SSP Diaries | Sitting on the fence is never an option
Sitting on the proverbial fence, trying to ride out the ‘storms’ of the region cannot be an acceptable option for any democratic country. The recent unilateral actions taken by the current US…
February 4, 2026
Editorial | Canada-CARICOM trade
With Mark Carney keen to expand Canada’s global economic relationships to lessen its reliance on the United States, the time may be propitious for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to seek to rekindle…
February 4, 2026
Elizabeth Morgan | Tariffs coercion – this time, target Cuba
This week, there are several issues which could be substantially addressed in this column relating to national, regional and international trade relations. A curious one is an article in The Sunday…
February 4, 2026
Norris R. McDonald |Jamaica’s ‘curry cow’ education system: a battle for cultural sovereignty
There are few tragedies more enduring than an education system that systematically undermines the very people it claims to uplift. In Jamaica, where more than 11 per cent of the adult population…
February 4, 2026
Tamara Green | When cancer turns lives upside down, care steps in
Cancer does not only affect the body. It turns lives upside down. On this World Cancer Day, before we speak of systems, strategies, or statistics, we should first recognise the people who step forward…
February 3, 2026
Editorial | Demand for skills training
In Panama last week, Kamina Johnson Smith, the foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, told international investors that the island’s post-hurricane reconstruction made Jamaica the right place for…
February 3, 2026
Ree-Anna Robinson | Mental health in a polycrisis
People in Jamaica are facing several concurrent challenges, including: a high cost of living, a pending global recession, rising tensions within our region, crime and violence, as well as successive…