Commentary
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,…
30 Mar, 2026
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The price still being paid
Two centuries after emancipation, the case is no longer historical – it is immediate. The setting was formal. The language was careful. But the message carried weight. At the Organization of…
29 Mar, 2026
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Editorial | Fixing the NaRRA Bill
The bill to establish the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the agency to lead Jamaica’s post-hurricane reconstruction, gets several important things right. But there are many…
29 Mar, 2026
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Mickel Jackson | Climate justice beyond the rhetoric
There is no climate justice without social justice. Small island developing states like Jamaica, which emit a negligible fraction of the world’s greenhouse gases, bear a disproportionate brunt of the…
29 Mar, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Death in milliseconds
Despite the annual carnage on our roads, many drivers are not considering the innumerable ways that they are endangering themselves and other road users.