Commentary
07 Apr, 2026
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Editorial | Making NaRRA better
In Jamaica, public institutions often fail because of bad policy design. They are given sweeping mandates, blurred lines of authority, weak performance systems, and too much dependence on the supposed…
07 Apr, 2026
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Michael Abrahams | Israel’s Palestinian purge prescription
On March 30, 1976, Israeli police killed six unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel and injured over 100 others while they were protesting the state’s confiscation of nearly 5,000 acres of Palestinian…
07 Apr, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | The essence of bronze
Political temperatures overheated in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland beyond the stars. An alleged tax evasion scheme, with Apocrypha’s main public hospital’s help, resulted in fingers being…
07 Apr, 2026
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Francesca Tavares | The slave trades the UN forgot
The United Nations’ recent resolution designating the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the “greatest historical evil” is a troubling exercise in historiographical reductionism – one that prioritises…
06 Apr, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Way to go
“Me have some new zinc sheet a sell. You want it fi one a yu church memba dem whey house blow down?” That was the offer from one of the few recipients who had received his rebuilding grant last week.…
06 Apr, 2026
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Carvell McLeary | Demise of the 40-hour workweek?
Is the 40-hour workweek, the sacred foundation of employment practices, at an end? Is it blasphemous to offer such words? As Jamaican businesses struggle with productivity concerns, culture and…
06 Apr, 2026
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Greta Merrill | Let’s make our soil great again
If I told you that most of the world’s food supply is grown on just three to six inches of dirt, you’d probably think that I was crazy. But that’s exactly why our top soil is so important. Top soil is…
04 Apr, 2026
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Editorial | Humanity’s quest to reach the Moon and beyond
History was repeated on the evening of April 1 when Artemis II, carrying four astronauts, lifted off for a 10-day journey around the Moon – more than five decades after the first human landed on…
04 Apr, 2026
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Editorial | Name criteria for the new coach
Despite his parsing of the issue, there seems little doubt that Rudolph Speid harbours the ambition of a permanent appointment as Jamaica’s national football coach. This newspaper makes no judgement…