Commentary
September 2025
Position Ja as a value-added partner in supply chain
Jamaica is pursuing sustainable development in line with Vision 2030, which aims to secure developed country status by that year. The government highlights recent progress such as new roads, housing,…
September 2025
Offniel Lamont | Physiotherapy and Jamaica’s ageing population
This year’s theme of World Physiotherapy Day was the role of physiotherapy and physical activity in healthy ageing, places the spotlight on preventing frailty and falls, two challenges that determine…
September 2025
Garth Rattray | A functioning JSPCA keeps us safe
I vividly recall the days when the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) was on Spanish Town Road. Just about anyone who had a pet either knew of or went to the JSPCA. It…
September 2025
Orville Taylor | Eternal father… Anthem playing in Tokyo
At least twice, but more likely, thrice, the first stanza of our National Anthem will stream across the screen on TVJ and TVJSN, while we bite our lips, fight the tears, while mischievously saying,…
September 2025
Editorial | It’s the JAAA again …
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) is prone to unforced error and own-goals that disenfranchise athletes. And unless the JAAA can mount a compelling case to the contrary, it seems…
September 2025
Tony Deyal | AI of we, who Meta?
When my colleague Kam told me about Meta, I thought he was talking about one of the fancy women he hanged on to and spent lots of time with. As I told him, “Listen man, I know you’re into Meta types…
September 2025
Ronald Sanders | Haiti cannot wait
On September 10, all 32 active member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) signed a joint statement on Haiti. As often happens in diplomacy, not every member state participated in the…
September 2025
Cecilia Barros Ruiz | Mexican independence – celebrating the spirit of Grito de Dolores
EVERY YEAR across the world the ‘Grito de Dolores’ is re-enacted on the eve of Mexico’s Independence Day. The CCXV Anniversary of the Independence of Mexico on September 16, is of the utmost value…
September 2025
SSP Diaries | The matter of reparations
IN SCHOOL, we learnt of our discovery and subsequent colonisation by a number of European nations, the chief of which was the British. Caribbean history, as explained, then chronicled the escapades of…