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May 31, 2026
Mark Shields | Stop reinventing the wheel, start issuing tickets
Latoya Bulgin is dead. Her body was handled by the men sworn to protect her with a callousness that shocked the nation. Days later, Prime Minister Andrew Holness stood before the 91st Staff and Junior…
May 31, 2026
Sabrina Barnes | Beyond sisterhood: Hypocrisy, power, and politics
The conversation about women in politics is often framed through a simplistic lens: women should support women at all costs. Yet reality is far more complicated. The same societies that criticise men…
May 31, 2026
Christian Tavares-Finson | Confronting crime, police-citizen interactions and due process
Jamaica is at a defining moment in its fight against crime.Across this country, there are questions in the minds of many. What if it’s me? What if it’s my family. Will I be safe? Will I be mistaken…
May 31, 2026
Garth Rattray | Who must die, NWA?
There is a community in St. Mary, near Ian Flemming International Airport, where the main thoroughfare joins the [busy] North Coast Highway. To the left of the intersection is a blind corner. To the…
May 31, 2026
Orville Taylor | Natural justice again?
If lawyers cannot get it right; then how can we truly safeguard the administration of justice in this country? Monday was the end of Workers’ Week and the celebration of Labour Day. Activities…
May 31, 2026
Clive Foster | Britain was seen as the mother country – then it told them they didn't belong
For a generation of Jamaicans, Britain was not a foreign country. Like my own parents, it was seen as the mother country. It was spoken of with familiarity, even affection. A place where opportunity…
May 31, 2026
Editorial | Engage with France on reparations
France last week made a second symbolic move in a possibly fruitful, but likely long, and potentially fraught, tango on reparations for slavery. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must urgently, and…
May 31, 2026
Christopher Burgess | Bureaucracy in housing
Successive governments have paid lip service to meeting Jamaica’s housing needs. The Planning Institute of Jamaica statistics show that only in the 1970s and 1990s did Jamaica come close to meeting…
