Have Your Say JAM Jun 16, 2025

Miles away, hearts at home: The Diaspora’s resounding call for a Jamaican Republic

Reading Time: 3 minutesThough oceans and decades may separate them from the island they call home, Jamaicans in the diaspora remain tethered by something stronger than distance: love, pride and an unshakeable belief…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 15, 2025

Sunday Sips with HG Helps | Tricky road ahead for Audrey Marks

Reading Time: 7 minutesOver two years ago, when then-finance minister Dr Nigel Clarke masterminded pay increases of between 200 and 300 per cent for parliamentarians, he also expressed the hope that the ‘attractive’…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 14, 2025

Let’s raise the bar: Elevated experiences are needed!

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Nicholas McDavid Companies/brands are not working hard enough to engage consumers, and event promoters have given up on innovation. This has led to a state I call the “pervasive…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 13, 2025

Africa-Caribbean Hub for Generative Intelligence Development

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe following is the address by former Prime Minister PJ Patterson during the launch of the AI project at the University of the West Indies on Wednesday, June 11. Colleagues…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 10, 2025

Tufton tells Jamaicans to stay the course in sectorial

Reading Time: 33 minutesIn his sectoral presentation to Parliament, Chris Tufton, Minister of Health and Wellness, remarked that the health of Jamaicans is certainly better today than nine years ago. Tufton continued that…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 8, 2025

Senator Audrey Marks | Jamaica must seize the opportunities AI offers

Reading Time: 4 minutesJamaica’s first artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory will be launched on September 1, As the brainchild of founder Dushyant Savadia, and through a Government project, the AI Lab will be managed by…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 8, 2025

Sunday Sips with HG Helps | Should we forget what Omar Azan said?

Reading Time: 7 minutesBusinessman Omar Azan is one of those movers and shakers who, when he speaks, commands considerable attention and respect, under normal circumstances. I guess that we are not in the…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 6, 2025

Alexia Beckford | The power of partnership: Global bridges, local impact

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2023, I attended the Collision Conference in Toronto with a clear purpose: to build access, influence, empowerment, and leadership for Jamaica’s digital sector — the very pillars that the…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 5, 2025

Robinson’s falsehoods & apology confirm PNP can’t be trusted to speak the truth -Abka Fitz-Henley

Reading Time: 2 minutesGovernment Senator Abka Fitz-Henley says the false statement made by Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Julian Robinson, concerning FirstRock, which has led to a retraction and apology, presents yet another confirmation…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 5, 2025

Makhulu | ‘Yuh too bad mind’: Why does Ralston Hyman give Dennis Chung such a hard time?

Reading Time: 4 minutesSenior RJR broadcaster Ralston Hyman is good at his craft, but does he have to constantly lambast and pillory his friend Dennis Chung? With friends like that, who needs enemies? Hyman…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 5, 2025

Jamaica’s political campaigns see a battle for the minds

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Vicki J Hanson [email protected] The changing nature of recent political campaigns in Jamaica should be noted as a critical point in our political history.  Since 2016, the way in…

Have Your Say JAM Jun 5, 2025

Omar Wright | Sustaining what sustains us: Why Jamaica must protect the oceans

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs the world marks World Oceans Day on June 8, under the theme ‘Sustaining What Sustains Us’, small island developing states (SIDS) like Jamaica should be reminded of its deep…