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February 8, 2026
Xinyu Addae-Lee | Hybrid public-private model for adoption: A strategic response to systemic delays
Jamaica’s adoption system is at a pivotal moment. The recent CAPRI report, Home Advantage: Reforming Jamaica’s Adoption System, provides a comprehensive diagnosis of the structural barriers preventing…
February 8, 2026
Garth Rattray | Don’t allow fear to kill you
The feeling of fear is perfectly natural. It is hardwired into our nervous system as a protective measure. It’s an unpleasant subjective emotional state arising in response to perceived dangers or…
February 8, 2026
Orville Taylor | Black history
Yesterday was 100 years since American ‘Blackademic’ Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) initiated the celebration of Negro History Week (NHW). Not a…
February 8, 2026
Ruthlyn James | Jamaica’s early childhood paradox
Long before early childhood education became global jargon, Jamaica understood that learning does not begin at primary school. Community-based basic schools laid the foundation for generations of…
February 8, 2026
by Edmond Campbell
Dangerous precedent
Accountability advocates are warning that accepting good intentions as justification for breaching procurement laws could undermine Jamaica’s system of public administration, following an auditor…
February 8, 2026
by Luke Douglas
Dr Reddy’s pharmaceutical brand exporting to oil-rich territories in region
Indian pharmaceutical brand Dr Reddy’s Laboratories shipped its first batch of exports from Jamaica to Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana valued at some US$300,000 - about J$50 million.
February 8, 2026
Dennis Minott | Jamaica is courting an educational depression – and the clock is ticking
The Gleaner’s recent editorial on restoring education ought to trouble every Jamaican who claims to care about the country’s future. The attendance figures it reports are not merely disappointing;…
February 8, 2026
Imani Tafari-Ama | US immigration policy and the old wounds of separation
What if you had invested approximately US$1,500 to apply for an immigrant visa – or US$500 for a non-immigrant visa – believing that this was your lawful passage from a constrained local economy into…
February 8, 2026
by Janet Silvera
Jeremiah Knight turns global culinary journey into memoir
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