Commentary

Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations were taking place at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, on November 21, in Belém, Brazil.
December 9, 2025

Peter Espeut | No sustainability at COP 30

It seems that the only interests that went home happy after the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) that wrapped up last Saturday in…
December 9, 2025

Tony Deyal | ‘Doggone it’

I was at university in Canada hanging out with some of my colleagues in one of the lounges when one of them, looking at me, shouted loudly, “Doggone it, Tony.” I was upset and made it clear, “Listen…
Women sell food items at a street market in Owo, Southwestern Nigeria.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Sanders | Cost of less than a cup of coffee could end world hunger in five years

This commentary is dedicated to Patrick Cozier of Barbados, whose probing occasioned its writing.
Supporters listen as speakers share their views on reparations and other issues during the Black Power Network news conference at the state Capitol in 2023.
December 9, 2025

Adekeye Adebajo | The black Atlantic’s quest for reparations

The current geopolitical environment is arguably not conducive to pursuing reparations for slavery and colonialism. But Africa and its diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe continue to…
A JPS electricity pole on Nashville Avenue in Mandeville, Manchester, which snapped and fell during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Unravelling JPS

With markets uncertain about the company’s continued control of Jamaica’s power grid, the Government’s decision to lend Jamaica Public Service (JPS) US$150 million to help pay for the post-Melissa…
December 9, 2025

Basil Jarrett | The road to recovery must include our women

FOUR WEEKS on since the passing of Hurricane Melissa and you can rest assured that, whichever of the remaining 116 active shelters that you visit, the scene will be largely same. Among the debris,…
Garnett Reid, president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Do COVID-style transfers

Garnett Reid, the president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), succinctly encapsulated the argument this newspaper has been making since Hurricane Melissa devastated the western…
South African President Cyril Ramaphos addresses the opening session of the G20 leaders’ summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa on November 22.
December 9, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | COP30 and G20 outcomes – Disappointing

ON MONDAY morning with the announcement of the death of one of Jamaica’s most outstanding reggae music pioneers, Jimmy Cliff, the temptation was to focus on his career, his achievements, including his…
A TotalEnergies sign sits amid rubble on Market Street in Falmouth, Trewlany, on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which swept through Jamaica on October 28.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Clean brigades, please

The authorities’ confirmation of an outbreak of leptospirosis is not, in the circumstances, particularly surprising. Surges in infectious and communicable diseases often happen in the aftermath of…