Commentary
01 Feb, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Women smarts in Parliament
Men who grew up close to their mothers and those in long term residential relationships have no problem with female leadership. Last week in Parliament, two women, each of whose name might relate to…
31 Jan, 2026
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Editorial | Restoring education
While we commend the education ministry’s various initiatives to deliver education to children in Jamaica’s storm-ravaged regions, the government perhaps needs a broader strategy to head-off a…
31 Jan, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Getting ready to rumble and tumble
For David E Bratt MD who believed “Trinidad being Trinidad, you cannot not have a jokey category,” and “The good: the Carnival spirit. So, little yet so the little means so much.” When it comes to…
31 Jan, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | Education as economic policy: remedying the mismatch
When the door to migration narrows, the long-standing mismatch between education and economic absorption is no longer abstract; a country’s true immigration policy becomes domestic – how many jobs it…
30 Jan, 2026
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Editorial | Beyond NaRRA’s CEO
As was recently promised by the information minister, Dana Morris Dixon, the government has advertised for a chief executive officer for the new agency that is to lead Jamaica’s reconstruction from…
30 Jan, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Setting a bad example
Much has been written about the negative precedents being set by Donald Trump in his second term as president of the United States of America (USA).
30 Jan, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | Pretty privilege is real
It is very interesting how differently we treat people simply based on how they look. Here, I am not just using the word ‘we’ in a general sense. Every single person is guilty of some prejudice in…
30 Jan, 2026
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Seth King | Resource-strapped special educators turn to AI…often unaware of the risks
Funding is scarce and personnel shortages are pervasive in special education, leaving many schools struggling to hire qualified and willing practitioners. Amid these long-standing challenges, there is…
29 Jan, 2026
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Editorial | New approach to jury law
The government was right to halt the parliamentary debate on amendments to the Jury Act given the several philosophical tensions inherent in some of the proposed changes. However, the administration…