Commentary

Minister of Information, Dana Morris Dixon.
January 19, 2026

Editorial | House oversight of the NRRA

An important development which escaped significant attention last week was the disclosure by Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon that the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NRRA) is…
In this November 2025 photo, Grade Three students of McCauley Primary School in Spanish Town, St Catherine are seen participating an integrated quiz session.
January 19, 2026

Ronald Thwaites| Productivity and literacy

I appreciate Prime Minister Holness’ exhortation at the Wisynco function last week for the nation to craft a surge or productivity higher than the rate of inflation. For, if we don’t, the fate of the…
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
January 19, 2026

Lloyd Barnett | Performance criteria and accountability/responsibility of parliamentarians

There is a clear need for the establishment of a clear definition of the duties of parliamentarians. We must go beyond generalities and platitudes such as exist in the Handbook for Parliamentarians…
Indigenous activists participate in a climate protest during the COP30 UN Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.
January 19, 2026

Leonardo Stanley | COP30: Promises, lies, and hopes

One of the most controversial points of the meetings that bring together the international community at the recently concluded climate conference — the Conference of the Parties (COP) — centres on the…
January 19, 2026 by Carlton FearonGuest Columnist

When ‘mind your own business’ becomes a moral blindfold

Few phrases travel more easily through our society than “mind your own business”. It is offered as wisdom, as protection, and often as virtue. Closely tied to it are other familiar sayings: “keep out…
Nand C. Bardouille, Ph.D., manager of The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean in the Institute of International Relations at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
January 19, 2026

Nand C. Bardouille | Can CARICOM hedge against American unilateralism?

The great powers' current revival of a spheres of influence-based international order, coming at the expense of (once) US-led liberal internationalism, is being closely watched by Caribbean…
Dr. Simone A. Williams, international specialist in water security, climate resilience, and environmental governance.
January 19, 2026

Simone A. Williams | Why Jamaica’s water laws deliver infrastructure…but not universal service

Jamaica has no shortage of water laws. For more than a century, Parliament has passed legislation to govern water supply, protect watersheds, control floods, license abstraction, regulate utility…
Gleaner editorial writes: In a fragmented world, resilience comes from diversification. CARICOM must expand partnerships while maintaining balanced diplomacy ...
January 18, 2026

Editorial | New strategies for new era

A comforting story of multilateralism and liberal democracy that has guided Caribbean thinking for the last 70-80 years is fast disappearing. The region has to face a new era without an open world…
A protester holds up a poster showing Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, (left) and US President Donald Trump, as she demonstrates outside the House of Parliament, in London.
January 18, 2026

Curtis Ward | Words of war could be deadly in 2026

The recent exchange of harsh words and threats of violence between President Donald Trump and Iran government officials represents a mere smidgen of the hate that exists between the Trump…