Commentary
01 Apr, 2026
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Norris R. McDonald | Ghost budget, sick patients, health screening, IMF praise!
One of the biggest challenges faced by poor black Jamaicans is the high out-of-pocket cost of urgent medical tests. This is a burden not only on the cash-strapped poor but also on members of the…
01 Apr, 2026
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Cathy Bussewitz | ‘Microshifting’ puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules
NEW YORK (AP) — Before the house is humming and her teenagers ask her to whip up breakfast or chauffeur them to school, Jen Meegan reads her company emails and revisits ideas she drafted the night…
31 Mar, 2026
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Editorial | CWI gobbledygook
Cricket West Indies (CWI) – and by extension West Indies cricket – has a problem. CWI is so addicted to obfuscation and opacity that even when it has a credible case to argue, its inclination to…
31 Mar, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | What’s good for the goose ...
On February 22, 1962, Premier Norman Washington Manley, on Jamaica’s behalf, signed a seminal agreement between Jamaica and USA. It involved the Peace Corps and provided for young American volunteers…
31 Mar, 2026
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Steve Sider and Kishi Anderson Leachman | Gatekeepers of inclusion and the invisible padlocks
Across the Caribbean, access is often negotiated through unspoken rules – how one looks, speaks, or is perceived within social hierarchies shaped by class, colour, and privilege. Those who do not…
31 Mar, 2026
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Appolenon L. Gordon | TVET is more than a philosophy: Time to put our money where the mandate is
For years, the buzzword echoing through the halls of education ministries and economic summits has been TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training). It is hailed as the "engine of…
30 Mar, 2026
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Editorial | Hormuz and fertiliser
In the month since the United States and Israel attacked Iran – and Tehran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz – the world’s attention, including Jamaica’s – has been primarily on its …
30 Mar, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Of dying and rising
In this mystical season where it appears that evil and death prevail then life, abundant life, eternal life, is restored, let us pause and re-examine our human purposes. What do Jamaicans really want…
30 Mar, 2026
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Lloyd Barnett | Safeguarding the franchise
An essential requirement of democracy is that the government must be a government by the people. This means that those who govern must truly have been selected by the people. In this connection,…