Commentary
10 May, 2026
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Lloyd Barnett | CHALLENGES OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES - Educating and engaging the electorate
Constitutional reform is usually a highly contentious and complex subject. There are often diverse views on critical subjects. Many proposals are put forward without any comprehensive research or…
09 May, 2026
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Editorial | Safeguarding children from abuse
There is no gainsaying that children and adolescents in Jamaica live under significant stress, often existing in the proximity of violence and other forms of abuse – or being the victims of…
09 May, 2026
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Editorial | Grasping India’s pivot
Last week’s visit to Jamaica by India’s external affairs minister, Dr S Jaishankar, should be read as more than diplomatic reflex – or a nicety to a now peripheral country of the Girmitiya, the…
09 May, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Where do we go from here?
Zeno Obi Constance is by far the best in the Caribbean and beyond. This article is part of an attempt to reach, teach and increase our knowledge and commitment of our development.
09 May, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | The Caribbean’s limits in absorbing other states’ deportees
Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws.
09 May, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Ode to mother
Even as a child, I wondered why my siblings and I called our mother ‘Mother’. We never called her ‘Mom’, ‘Mommy’, ‘Moms’, ‘Momsy’, ‘Mamma’, ‘Mum’, ‘Mummy’, or ‘Ma’. There was no historical or cultural…
09 May, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Mothers’ every day
“You're what I celebrate, You're like a never ending holiday. You're my forever special occasion.”
Dorothy Moore, sang that almost 50 years ago; two years after the UN dedicated 1975…
09 May, 2026
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Xinyu Addae-Lee | Maternity care under the radar
Reports in the Jamaica Observer some time ago have once again placed maternity care under public scrutiny — from the tragic death of a newborn at Cornwall Regional Hospital to accounts of a difficult…