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March 1, 2026

Powell, King, Russell the major targets of Jamaica franchise

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): The Jamaican trio of Rovman Powell, Andre Russell, and Brandon King are among the key targets for Kingsmen Sports Enterprise, who are hoping to assemble a title-contending…
Kristen Gyles writes: Age does not always determine competence or judgement. However, if it is discrimination for parliamentarians, it is discrimination for employees everywhere else.
March 1, 2026

Editorial | Measuring tax expenditures

According to the recent reports on tax expenditures tabled in the House of Representatives, government expenditure in this area reached J$46.6 billion in 2023. The significance of this needs to be…
From left: Tanesia Gordon, student, Anchovy High School, in conversation with Howard Ward, chairman of the MoBay Night Run 5K Run/Walk, while Tianna Nolan, Anchovy High School student and Dr Lavern Stewart, principal of Anchovy High, react during the offi
March 1, 2026 by Ashley Anguin

MoBay Night Run hones in on Anchovy recovery

Western Jamaica’s road runners will lace up with purpose, as the third staging of the MoBay Night Run 5K Run/Walk turns its focus to restoring hope to the nearly 800 students of Anchovy High School,…
Workers reaping the first crop of onions since the passage of Hurricane Melissa on Andre Dyer’s five-acre onion farm in Mountainside, St Elizabeth, on February 16.
March 1, 2026 by Karen Madden

ONION TEARS

Frustration laced his voice as Andre Dyer, one of Jamaica’s largest onion farmers, bemoaned how the importation of onions is threatening the livelihood of local farmers, even as the traditional…
March 1, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Cellblock horror

A man who says he was falsely arrested has claimed in a lawsuit that he contracted a sexually transmitted infection after being assaulted inside a police lockup. The assault, which lasted…
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March 1, 2026

Orville Taylor | Cuba ahora; Jamaica proximo?

Former American ambassador Luis Moreno has reassured the Jamaican people that we have nothing to worry about, despite utterances by Republican Congressman Carlos Giménez, that “Jamaica will face the…
Dr Carolyn Gomes (left), former executive director of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), and JFJ chairman Horace Levy at the JFJ End Police Violence Peaceful Protest at Half Way Tree Transport Centre in April 2025.
March 1, 2026

Mickel Jackson | Holding power to account: Vital work of human rights organisations in Jamaica

The past week has sparked intense public discourse about the role of civil society – particularly Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) – and whether the sector engages in “fair play” in its criticisms. Having…
Aneita Williams cleaning mud from her house in The Estuary, a housing development in Friendship, St James, after the passage of Hurricane Melissa last October. Now displaced and given temporary accommodation by the NHT, she does not wish to return to her
March 1, 2026 by Tanesha Mundle

STILL IN LIMBO

Four months after Hurricane Melissa sent floodwaters surging through sections of Phase 2 of The Estuary in Friendship, St James, several homeowners say they remain burdened with loss, displacement,…
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March 1, 2026

Garth Rattray | Simianisation is malicious, racist dehumanisation

It is terrible that the most powerful and influential office on the planet posted images of former American president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle (who are both Afro-Americans) as apes. Coming…