Commentary

January 10, 2026

Tony Deyal | Days of love and Bajan

I was in Barbados where my column was named, ‘Saturday’s Child’ and I got enough jokes by the people about how this “show-and-show” man could be called a “child”. My response was, “I think your wife…
A road is being cleared of debris after the passage of Hurricane Melissa
January 10, 2026

Allan Alberga | Hurricane Melissa and Jamaica’s moment of reckoning

Now that the winds from Hurricane Melissa have subsided, Jamaica finds itself at a moment that demands reflection rather than routine recovery. Across the island, lives were disrupted, livelihoods…
Minister of Justice, Delroy Chuck
January 9, 2026

Editorial | Bench trial review

With Chief Justice Bryan Sykes having again warned of the unlikelihood of Jamaican judges “trying” their way out of the backlog of cases in the island’s high court, it is past time that Delroy…
Peter Espeut writes: If you agree to decriminalise sex between “consenting” minors, then you will have walked into the logical trap ...
January 9, 2026

Peter Espeut | Are we driven by logic?

I have written here before that I wish that the science of logic would be taught in every high school in Jamaica. As a start, it should improve student performance in mathematics, which is a refined…
Smoke raises at La Carlota airport after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela.
January 9, 2026

Kristen Gyles | What caused the blackout in Venezuela?

For months leading up to January 3, the US special forces had been rehearsing its step-by-step capture plan for the arrest of Nicolás Maduro from his home in Caracas, Venezuela. At roughly 2 a.m. in…
A government supporter holds an image of President Nicolás Maduro during a women’s march to demand his return in Caracas, Venezuela.
January 8, 2026

Editorial | Nothing settled in Venezuela

Nothing, fundamentally, has been settled in Venezuela despite America’s military assault on the country and the capture and rendition to the United States of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.…
Nigeria police, Anti-Bomb squad, secure the scene of a US airstrike in Northwest, Jabo, Nigeria, Friday, December 26, 2025.
January 8, 2026

Curtis A. Ward | Military strike IS in Nigeria – expanding US war on terrorism in West Africa

The military strike on an Islamic State (IS or ISIS) affiliate in northern Nigeria is consistent with past US actions against IS and combatting international terrorism. The timing is not relevant. And…
The SSP Diaries
January 8, 2026

SSP Diaries | Future warnings

PROPERTY INSURANCE I remember when we lived in a wooden house and my parents built a solid concrete structure in the same location subsequently. Leaving home many years later, I reflected on what my…
“When a country experiences repeated severe weather events, the question cannot simply be how quickly we repair damage. It must be whether we are upgrading the systems that failed”: Dean Jones, founder of Jamaica Homes.
January 8, 2026

What housing affordability really looks like in Jamaica right now

Jamaica is rebuilding. Not in theory. Not in headlines. Not in forecasts imported from somewhere else. But in real time – board by board, block by block, family by family. Hurricane Melissa did not…