Commentary

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
December 9, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | Zohran Mamdani and Gen-Z’s rebellion against US power brokers!

ZOHRAN MAMDANI, a self-declared democratic socialist, has achieved what many thought was impossible: he defeated the Democratic party’s old guards, including Andrew Cuomo, to become New York’s mayor.…
Lance Neita
December 9, 2025

Lance Neita | Hurricane blues – Sharing perspectives of a night of terror

SO MUCH already written on the hurricane and so much more to be written on this ineffaceable part of our history. I remember thinking as I watched the Twin Towers fall in 9/11, America will never be…
A dejected former Reggae Boyz coach, Steve McClaren after Jamaica drew 0-0 against Curaçao in a Concacaf World Cup Qualifier.
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | The essence of compatibility

Over in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland beyond the clouds where all politicians are friends, the talk was all about football. The Apocryphan national football team had just blown what seemed a…
Cover of the 2017 edition of Yellow Pages depicting a painting of a dancehall scene
December 9, 2025

Michael Abrahams | Blessed are the sinners

In 2017, the Jamaica Yellow Pages produced a telephone directory with a cover featuring a painting depicting a dancehall session. However, a church lobby group, the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy…
From left: Inter-American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn, Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, Guyana's President Irfaan Ali, Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Jamaica's Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness, and Barbados' Prim
December 9, 2025

Editorial | CARICOM resilience bond

The visit to hurricane-ravaged western Jamaica last week by a muster of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders was meant as a demonstration of regional solidarity.
This photo shows houses damaged in Black River, St Elizabeth by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Paths to recovery?

Explain to us, simple folks, how economic recovery is engineered when probably half of our people have lost most everything and have no earnings to pay for food and provide shelter. Faced with this…
People are seen waiting outside a polling station at Morant Bay Primary School, St Thomas to cast their votes in September’s general election.
December 9, 2025

Lloyd Barnett | Fixed dates for general and by-elections

The question of whether or not there should be fixed election dates has been one of long and intense debate. Section 64(2) of Jamaica’s Constitution provides that Parliament continues for five years…
A collapsed section of roadway to Beeston Spring, Westmoreland.
December 9, 2025

Howard Beckford | Urgent need to decentralise post Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa did more than devastate homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods across Jamaica. It exposed a weakness we have ignored for far too long. Our highly centralised system of government…
Bamboo plants
December 9, 2025

Bryndís Davis | A bamboo-tastic answer to plastic

Bamboo boasts a long and rich cultural history. Used for thousands of years in the construction of homes, bridges, and furniture, bamboo is woven into the fabric of human design and innovation, dating…