Commentary
13 Dec, 2025
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Ronald Sanders | Weakness of sovereignty exposed: Why CARICOM should stand together
The Caribbean is living through a moment of rising geopolitical tension. As the United States intensifies pressure on the Maduro government in Venezuela, the ripples reach CARICOM shores fast. None of…
12 Dec, 2025
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Editorial | Westmoreland after Melissa
Even within the widespread destruction and human misery caused by Hurricane Melissa in western Jamaica, the parish of Westmoreland is a special special case. It is in need of urgent and specific…
12 Dec, 2025
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Peter Espeut | Celebrating the incarnation
Every time I hear talk of “cancelling Christmas” I cringe. The celebration by Christians of “the Word becoming flesh” cannot be cancelled by governments or shopkeepers. Any talk of “Christmas in…
12 Dec, 2025
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Kristen Gyles | Identity crisis in Accompong
All across the earth, there are examples of identity crises. A teenager might really not want to be a child, but is still a child. A boy might really not want to be a male, but is still male. A man…
12 Dec, 2025
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Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe | After Hurricane Melissa: Infrastructure and systems impact public health and safety
The mention of infrastructure typically conjures up thoughts of buildings, bridges, roadways and other facilities. However, infrastructure and systems in public health refer to essential services and…
12 Dec, 2025
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Wayne Kublalsingh | Decoding Tobago radar
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, her ministers and her defenders are involved in a fantastic and unconvincing attempt to deceive the public. Why have the Americans deployed their flotilla,…
11 Dec, 2025
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Editorial | What the West Indies’ Test team really lacks
Roston Chase, the captain of the West Indies’ Test team, is right that the Caribbean’s cricket infrastructure lags behind what’s available to most of the region’s international counterparts. While…
11 Dec, 2025
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Seya Wilson | Hurricane Melissa and the climate future we cannot ignore
Hurricanes of Melissa’s intensity are not meant to appear with such frequency, nor develop such destructive force just moments before landfall. Yet here we are, facing the climate reality scientists…
11 Dec, 2025
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SSP Diaries | Setting the stage for global destruction – Part 1
IN TODAY’S world many of us are losing sight of the fact that modern conflicts have negative impacts upon our own well-being and make it even more difficult for small island developing states to…