Commentary
18 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Melissa clean-up brigades
The emergence of several cases of leptospirosis and tetanus in western Jamaica since the passage of Hurricane Melissa underlines the need for fast action by the Government to head off a potential…
18 Nov, 2025
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Wang Jinfeng | Standing together in solidarity to overcome difficulties
HURRICANE MELISSA has left a trail of casualties and extensive property losses in Jamaica, a situation that has brought deep concern and sorrow to us all. Sharing Jamaica’s pain, China extended its…
18 Nov, 2025
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Elizabeth Morgan | Living in troubling times
EVERY CENTURY comes with its cataclysmic events which are recorded in history and will be discussed, written about and studied for generations to come. The 20th century had quite a few of those which…
17 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Climate crisis and education
While maintaining its policies to reduce the amount of Earth-heating gases Jamaica spews into the atmosphere, the Government should underpin these efforts by making climate change – and how to be…
17 Nov, 2025
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Michael Abrahams | How hurricanes affect our health
Hurricane Melissa departed our shores three weeks ago. The death toll, at the time of writing this article, stands at 45, but this figure does not fully reflect the devastating effect the storm has…
17 Nov, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | It’s cuckoo!
I’ve heard it said (and it’s true I’m sure) that, sometimes, we mus’ tek seruss t’ing mek joke. That must’ve been journalist Zahra Burton’s intent when, at one of Government’s post Melissa briefings,…
16 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Dodgy Olympics women’s 100m plan
World Athletics’ decision to schedule the three rounds of the women’s 100 metres race for the opening day of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is a coup for marketers. For, as Sebastian Coe, the president…
16 Nov, 2025
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Ruthlyn James | The neurodevelopmental cost of Jamaica’s climate future
Jamaica is not simply surviving hurricanes; we are quietly growing a population shaped by them. We speak about damage and repair funds but those are surface wounds. The deeper injury is neurological,…
16 Nov, 2025
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Lloyd Barnett | Retaining and reforming the Senate
Since the adoption of universal adult suffrage and a representative system of government in 1944, Jamaica has always had two legislative chambers. In 1944, there were established the elected House of…