Commentary
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Old BC in Digihell
Bad news comes in threes as Melissa, then her aftermath, were two of the worst but now the Old Ball and Chain is outraged at Digicel. So we’ve no choice but to experience a third storm.
December 9, 2025
Editorial | ODPEM in risky times
Unless the recommended restructuring of the government’s disaster management system was only for a change of its top leader, last week’s shake-up at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Melissa exposes the Jamaican state
Melissa, the horrendously intense category 5 hurricane that smashed through western Jamaica nearly a fortnight ago, did not simply tear up infrastructure and take lives. Although plenty of that…
December 9, 2025
Stephen Vasciannie | Shiprider agreement should safeguard Jamaica’s national self-respect
Some of the main aspects of Jamaica’s relationship with the United States of America within the Caribbean Sea are governed by the Agreement Concerning Cooperation in Suppressing Illicit Maritime Drug…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Choices have consequences
The Minister is right. Each local school board has the practical and legal responsibility to determine how and when to resume school after Melissa.The role of government is to harvest the most urgent…
December 9, 2025
Orville Taylor | John Crows to the rescue
Sunday is a day of rest for them, because the popular Jamaican folk song reports; our turkey vultures, “John Crow, say him no wuk pon Sunday.” Her logic might sound as if sucked into the eye of…
December 9, 2025
Lloyd Barnett | Identification and status of the head of state
In the previous articles in this series, I expressed the opinion that at present it appears that Jamaica will change from a monarchical form of Constitution to a republican form but that the…
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | What if Hurricane Melissa landed in Kingston?
Category 5 hurricane Melissa was described as “catastrophic” as it approached our shores, and then rapidly transformed from a tropical storm into a monstrous hurricane packing wind gusts of up to…
December 9, 2025
Greta Merrill | The world unites in the face of crisis
In these trying times for the environmental movement, it can sometimes feel impossible to find the (solar-powered) light. In September the International Day of Preservation of the Ozone Layer (or…