On May 20, 2026, The Gleaner carried a most important article, “Conscience crisis”, that must not be ignored.

The article is important because it raises a critical description of the behaviour of youth and adults surveyed in 2024. The survey revealed “frustration over perceived corruption, injustice, alongside an increasing willingness among younger people to bend rules and prioritise personal advancement.”

As I saw this page one article, I had a sudden flashback to a booklet excerpts from speeches of Michael Manley (1988) titled “A country without a conscience”. This booklet is a moral critique of the prevailing values unleashed by the new political and economic turn related to globalisation, marketisation and deregulation that effectively began in the early years of the 1980s.