Commentary
10 Aug, 2026
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Francesca Tavares | Cheers to ‘Miss Chin’
My favourite Jamaican food will always be made by a ‘Miss Chin’. Every Jamaican knows what I mean: the catering shop, the glass case, the alchemy no hotel buffet and no ring-lit food blogger has ever…
10 Aug, 2026
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Jamaica at 64: Are we becoming a republic or just talking about it?
Sixty-four years after the Union Jack came down at the National Stadium, Jamaica is still asking a question that ought, by now, to have a reasonably clear answer. Are we going to become a republic or…
09 Aug, 2026
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Editorial | AI and integrity of exams
When students in Denmark return to school this week after their summer recess, they will do so under a new regime governing how they can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for…
09 Aug, 2026
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Serge Letchimy | Martinique in CARICOM: From accession to action
On June 16, Martinique officially became an Associate Member of the Caribbean Community. A few weeks later, in Saint Lucia, our delegation took its seat for the first time at the Conference of Heads…
09 Aug, 2026
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Byron Blake | An independence gift for western Jamaica?
July 28, nine months after the vicious left-right uppercuts of the record-breaking Hurricane Melissa, the people of western Jamaica remain in shock.
09 Aug, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Democratic Socialism then and now (Part 2)
When the Michael Manley government introduced Democratic Socialism, the Cold War was still at its peak, and the nervous tremors of missing a nuclear holocaust by the skin of our teeth hung heavily in…
09 Aug, 2026
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Orville Taylor | African yes: but Jamaica land we love
Two weeks of intense nationalism. The Commonwealth Games, with some stellar performances; Emancipation Day; Independence; along with Festival Song, concerts and the Grand Gala. Sitting across the…
08 Aug, 2026
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Editorial | Steelpan and the imperative of cultural preservation
On August 11, the United Nations observes World Steelpan Day, celebrating what has been widely acknowledged as the only significant instrument developed in the 20th century. When the General Assembly…
08 Aug, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Nostalgia News Report 1945 to now!
(For my wife, Indranie Deyal, who gave me the 1945 Nostalgia News Report) I was born on August 10, 1945, in a small town called Carapichaima in Trinidad and Tobago, where we lived with our…