Commentary
December 10, 2025
Editorial | PM Godwin Friday’s error
Godwin Friday’s government in St Vincent and the Grenadines is off to an unfortunate start. It has stumbled badly on its first significant ethical test. Dr Friday is allowing Kishore Shallow, the…
December 10, 2025
Norris R. McDonald | Trump, Hegseth, and US hegemony: Blood in our waters
ON DECEMBER 4, the US Senate and Congress launched investigations into a horrific incident where unarmed fishermen, survivors of an American airstrike, were later deliberately targeted and killed…
December 10, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | US National Security Strategy – modernising the Monroe Doctrine
AS THERE remains concern about US military activities in the southern Caribbean in which, so far, 86 people have been killed in US military strikes on small boats, it came to attention that the 2025…
December 10, 2025
Curtis Ward | Be vigilant: expose corruption in hurricane relief and recovery
Saying there are significant concerns by many in Jamaica and in the diaspora that the government on its own cannot be trusted to distribute hurricane relief without bias and favour would be an…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Income-linked student loans
The Government’s movement to implement its so-called debt-reset programme for student borrowers will be of unquestionable value to the debtors, especially in an economically difficult post-hurricane…
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | We must demand broad-based oversight
Oversight is a crucial tool in governance for ensuring accountability, transparency and effectiveness. It enables adherence to rules and laws and, in doing so, acts as a vital check-and-balance to…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Family is everything
Recently, I’ve been forced to remember life’s meaning which has nothing to do with success or failure. Because I understand the real meaning of life, I don’t think about my successes especially as…
December 9, 2025
Sousa Jamba | Jimmy Cliff’s African Legacy
There was, in the life of Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican now at rest, a quiet marvel: perhaps he never suspected how deeply his voice penetrated anonymous lives across the world, including my own. For many…
December 9, 2025
Professor Gus John | A marriage made in hell
November 2025 was 60 years since the Race Relations Act of 1965 came into force. That act is acknowledged as the first piece of legislation in the United Kingdom to address the prohibition of racial…