Commentary
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | This is an opportunity to get it right
Western Jamaica and sections of middle Jamaica suffered unprecedented destruction due to category 5 Hurricane Melissa. The event has been described as catastrophic and even apocalyptic. The losses are…
December 9, 2025
Orville Taylor | Retrenchments and safety net
Thank God some of us still have roofs over our heads and accessible supplies of food and water. A privilege set have electricity, and doubtless, much to be grateful for. A long and slow recovery…
December 9, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Avoiding vulnerabilities in recovery
Hurricane Melissa revealed that Jamaica’s weakness is not only fragile coordination but fragile infrastructure. Empathy and equity must remain at the heart of the recovery process. As Jamaica moves…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority a good start
The Government’s concurrence with this newspaper’s call for a legislated special purpose vehicle to undertake the post-Hurricane Melissa reconstruction of western Jamaica is a good start towards the…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | God is not like humanity
Many of us Jamaicans are Old Testament people – which is fine if we follow the Jewish faith tradition. But if we are children of the New Covenant – the New Testament – then we follow a different…
December 9, 2025
Ohene Blake | Cauterising the adverse economic impacts of Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has devastated the western third or more of Jamaica. This is the prime real sector for economic growth. It is the centre of agricultural food production for the entire Jamaican and…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Specific body for rebuilding
There is no question that Hurricane Melissa severely battered western Jamaica. Indeed, even as the assessment becomes more granular, what is known so far of the impact of the Category 5 storm is…
December 9, 2025
Basil Jarrett | World Children’s Day and a broken Jamaica
IF YOU grew up in the ‘90s, you remember them. Those heart-breaking UNICEF ads that just seemed to ambush your conscience as you settled in for some mindless Fresh Prince of Belair or WWE Smackdown.…
December 9, 2025
Monique Oates | Replanting hope: Feeding Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa did more than upend lives, destroy the housing stock and sever the road network, she uprooted Jamaica’s food security. The once-fertile parishes of St Elizabeth and Manchester, long…