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06 Jun, 2026
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Byron Blake | Mired in confusion - Emergency relief, recovery support, and investment for reconstruction and redevelopment
Major disasters, natural or man-made, trigger a range of emotions. The first concerns the human condition of victims. A government's declaration of an emergency is an SOS for help. Help to save…
06 Jun, 2026
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Jalil Dabdboub | Towards a politics of consensus and continuity
The violence of the 1970s may be long gone, but its scars remain part of the consciousness of our people through inherited political identity. Entire communities were shaped by fear, political…
06 Jun, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Rethink and rename ‘obesity’
The medical sciences are in constant flux. Understandably, this may cause some degree of scepticism, confusion, and a loss of confidence among some medical practitioners but more so among…
06 Jun, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Flagging the Cup
We did go for history and go for cup, and succeeded at one. Watching the teams parade, including our infinitesimal Caribbean neighbours, Curaçao and our fellow Africans, the Democratic Republic of the…
06 Jun, 2026
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Carolyn Cooper | Lisa Hanna from bathroom to boardroom
On April 8, Ms Lisa Hanna delivered the 16th Annual Aggrey Brown Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the Caribbean School of Media and Communication at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Her topic…
06 Jun, 2026
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Editorial | FLA has work to do
The flat rejection by Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) chairman, retired judge Glenworth Brown, of the authority continuing to seek judicial review of the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on…
06 Jun, 2026
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Nekeisha Burchell | Permission to chat – language and identity in Jamaica today
A few weeks ago, people found themselves having a conversation that stretched far beyond our shores. It was a conversation about language, but it was also a conversation about identity, history, and…
06 Jun, 2026
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Some 65,000 NWC customers still without water after islandwide power outage
The Ministry of Water and Environment is reporting that approximately 65,000 customers of the National Water Commission (NWC) remain without water supply following disruptions caused by Friday’s…
06 Jun, 2026
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Gabriel Agbo | Samson’s hair is growing again!
“So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and made to grind grain in the prison. But before long his hair began to grow…