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May 17, 2026
WISDOM OF THE WEEK - Do hormones determine your mood?
Modern medical science has explained in great detail how hormones influence our moods, emotions, sleep, energy, and even relationships. Hormones such as serotonin, dopamine, cortisol, and oxytocin are…
May 17, 2026
INSPIRING JAMAICA - Whispers of the wild: Living natural heritage
There is a certain magic that awakens when one leaves the noise of the city behind and journeys into the cool hills and forests of Jamaica. It is a feeling carried by the wind through the trees, by…
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May 17, 2026
Sabrina Adewumi – from the engineering lab to delving in colours
For over 20 years, Jamaica-born Sabrina Adewumi chased engineering, technology, and interior- design project deadlines. Now, she is an abstract artist in her Southern California studio, finding vivid…
May 17, 2026
Gordon Robinson | Wanted: a viable opposition
It seems PNP “leaders” have decided to be sheep instead of shepherds and thus likely to plunge Jamaica into the abyss of a de facto One-Party State.
The once proud PNP whose ideas inspired a…
May 17, 2026
Dennis Minott | Holness vs Zuma: Seven uncanny parallels in Jamdown and Mzansi
There are moments in the life of a nation when thoughtful citizens experience a growing unease — not because democracy has collapsed, but because patterns repeat with disturbing familiarity. Jamaica…
May 17, 2026
Jalil Dabdoub | Jamaica’s struggle for democratic balance
Jamaica stands at a defining constitutional moment. The legal battle between Prime Minister Holness and the Integrity Commission (IC) is not just a dispute over statutory declarations, corruption,…
May 17, 2026
Erja Askola | European Union and Jamaica: Why partnership matters more than ever
Every year on May 9, Europe Day, a commemoration of peace, unity, and cooperation,is celebrated. In 1950, only five years after the devastation of the Second World War, six European countries, some of…
May 17, 2026
Orville Taylor | Appropriate language and symbols
Once you hear it you cannot unhear it. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Sometimes people go to great lengths in order to defend the indefensible. Something is not right simply because it is…
May 17, 2026
Garth Rattray | Compassionate care in a digital world
The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) is a not-for-profit professional organisation founded in 1972. It represents the interests of family physicians and general practitioners and is…