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People celebrating at Jamaica’s 63rd independence Grand Gala celebration on August 6, 2025 at the National Stadium in Kingston.
February 1, 2026

Howard Mitchell and Michael McAnuff-Jones | Jamaican Covenant: A blueprint for moral revolution

This collaborative opinion piece has been penned after extensive thought sharing and discussions with a group of concerned senior church leaders who are members and leaders of a pastors association,…
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February 1, 2026

Garth Rattray | Patient care is a team effort

On January 25, the Medical Council of Jamaica hosted their Annual Ethics and Mental Health Webinar. The speakers were Ethicist Dr. Shereen Cox, professor of pharmacology and pharmacovigilance…
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February 1, 2026

Orville Taylor | Women smarts in Parliament

Men who grew up close to their mothers and those in long term residential relationships have no problem with female leadership. Last week in Parliament, two women, each of whose name might relate to…
Trevor Hamilton
February 1, 2026

Trevor Hamilton and Byron Blake | Jamaica’s readiness for economic sovereignty

The global economy has rotated 360 degrees in the last 100 years. Soon, economic winners will be countries with nuclear or military power or with economic sovereignty. While small countries cannot…
February 1, 2026

Tricks for remembering where you put things

With a scarf dangling from your coat pocket and those gloves left behind at the coffee shop, there are simply more things to lose in winter. That’s not counting your misplaced keys at home or those…
A person looks out of a window in an apartment building in Kansas City, Missouri.
February 1, 2026

Being a night owl may not be great for your heart

WASHINGTON (AP): Being a night owl can be bad for your heart. That may sound surprising but a large study found people who are more active late at night – when most of the population is winding down…
February 1, 2026

Dennis Minott | Selah: A meaningless word that still commands us to pause

There is a curious little word scattered through the Psalms that has survived millennia of copying, translation, chanting, disputation, and devotion – yet stubbornly refuses to explain itself. Selah.…
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin
February 1, 2026

Yaakov Raskin | How to know you’re on the right path

This week’s Torah reading brings us to one of the most dramatic and revealing moments in the entire Biblical narrative. The Jewish people just left Egypt after centuries of slavery. They’re getting…
The seder plate.
February 1, 2026

Gabriel Agbo | I will pass through Egypt

One of the most powerful and most dramatic deliverances in the bible and in human history is the miraculous, commando-style rescue of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. The Israelites…