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09 May, 2026
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A mother’s dream comes true - American activist and author Marley Dias talks new book, maternal roots
In the fifth grade, a bright-eyed Marley Dias grew curious about her school’s curriculum and the absence of books featuring black girls as central characters. Troubled by the lack of representation,…
09 May, 2026
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Xinyu Addae-Lee | Maternity care under the radar
Reports in the Jamaica Observer some time ago have once again placed maternity care under public scrutiny — from the tragic death of a newborn at Cornwall Regional Hospital to accounts of a difficult…
09 May, 2026
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Orville Taylor | Mothers’ every day
“You're what I celebrate, You're like a never ending holiday. You're my forever special occasion.”
Dorothy Moore, sang that almost 50 years ago; two years after the UN dedicated 1975…
09 May, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Ode to mother
Even as a child, I wondered why my siblings and I called our mother ‘Mother’. We never called her ‘Mom’, ‘Mommy’, ‘Moms’, ‘Momsy’, ‘Mamma’, ‘Mum’, ‘Mummy’, or ‘Ma’. There was no historical or cultural…
09 May, 2026
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Editorial | Grasping India’s pivot
Last week’s visit to Jamaica by India’s external affairs minister, Dr S Jaishankar, should be read as more than diplomatic reflex – or a nicety to a now peripheral country of the Girmitiya, the…
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09 May, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | The games people play
Government’s latest gaming policy is to merge three Regulatory Commissions, Racing (JRC); Betting Gaming and Lotteries (BGLC); and Casino Gaming (CGC).
It’s a very bad idea.
The thing is, insofar as…
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09 May, 2026
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Mark Wignall | The lunacy of war
Those enrolled in any advanced study of war must face up to the philosophical considerations and questions born out of history. The first is that war is inevitable, and in a most perverse way, we are…
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09 May, 2026
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Jalil Dabdoub | Diplomatic deception: Selective framing and challenge of honest dialogue
The recent Gleaner commentary by Raslan Abu Rukun presents a tired Israeli narrative: Israel as a willing partner for peace, Lebanon as a state held hostage by Hezbollah, and Iran as the destabilising…