Have Your Say JAM Oct 11, 2026

Ricardo Smith | Longer school days alone will not fix Jamaica’s education problem

Reading Time: 8 minutesJamaica’s education system is facing serious challenges, and there is no shortage of ideas about how these challenges should be addressed. One proposal that has again entered the national conversation…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 11, 2026

Oneil Madden | The power of the people: When public voices move government

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are moments when democracy reveals its power not in Parliament, not at the ballot box, but in the collective voice of ordinary citizens. Jamaica has just witnessed such a…

Have Your Say CARIB Oct 11, 2026

Dennis A. Minott | Learned Critique of Morales Pedraza’s Advocacy for Small Modular Reactors: The View from a Seismic, Debt-Constrained Caribbean Island

Reading Time: 10 minutesIntroduction: The Scholar and His Thesis Jorge Morales Pedraza is a prolific and industrious commentator on energy policy, whose work spans nuclear technology, renewable energy transitions, and the electricity-generation prospects…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 11, 2026

Sunday Sips with H.G. Helps | The NaRRA’s brouhaha, Cataract patient’s plea highlights, Cricket’s leadership Cass‑Cass deepens; Why Tanyalee Williams’s move isn’t cause for celebration

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe NaRRA’s brouhaha There is a chorus of condemnation over the ridiculous budget for renting a building to house the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority, simply known as NaRRA. I…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 8, 2026

Brian Langrin | Keynote speach at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica 2026 Business Conference, Integrity in Action. Value in Motion.

Reading Time: 10 minutesResilience and Innovation Post-Hurricane Melissa Thursday, 8 October 2026 President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica, Mrs. Sharon Donaldson-Levine; members of the Council; distinguished members of the profession;…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 7, 2026

Mark Golding | Relieve the people, Minister Chuck

Reading Time: 4 minutesStatement from the Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding MP Minister Delroy Chuck speciously claims that “the Opposition is using accession to the CCJ as a tactic to delay constitutional…

Have Your Say WORLD Oct 7, 2026

Dennis Minott | African collaborators do not absolve British institutions

Reading Time: 5 minutesHistory, responsibility and the courage to atone My old friend Everald “Warmy” Warmington deserves a patient answer. Jamaica’s Parliament deserves an accurate one. His reported contention that white people did…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 6, 2026

The 50th Anniversary, Bombing of Cubana Flight 455:  | Remembering the victims, condemning terrorism, and reaffirming Caribbean solidarity

Reading Time: 2 minutesStatement from the PNPYO past members association (1970 Chapter) Today, Tuesday 6th October 2026 marks a dark half-century since October 6, 1976—a date etched in the collective memory of the…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 6, 2026

Damion Crawford | Standing with our teachers while standing together for our children

Reading Time: 6 minutesStatement by Opposition Spokesperson on Education and Early Childhood Development, Damion Crawford, on World Teachers’ Day 2026 Today, as we celebrate World Teachers’ Day under the theme, “Standing with teachers:…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 4, 2026

Sunday Sips with H.G. Helps | Councillor Bell must face the heat over conflict claims; Cornwall Regional billions lost while doctors wait for pay; Dervan Malcolm’s funeral: A reminder to honour people alive; Jamaica’s stance on the UN walkout raises hard questions

Reading Time: 6 minutesCouncillor Bell must face heat over conflict claims For too long, those who fall under the microscope of the Integrity Commission have flirted with rules and regulations. When they are…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 4, 2026

Beyond Closed Doors: Domestic Violence is Everybody’s Business

Reading Time: 5 minutesDomestic violence is often treated as a private matter between two people, but that understanding needs to change. What happens inside a home does not necessarily stay inside that home….

Have Your Say JAM Oct 4, 2026

Oneil Madden | Beyond the essay: Rethinking critical thinking in the age of AI

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Caribbean education system is confronting a difficult but necessary question: What exactly are we assessing when artificial intelligence (AI) can produce an essay, solve a problem, summarise a source…