In Focus
December 9, 2025
Patricia Green | Strapping roofs can’t be the solution
“… Close the window weh de wind cum from. Open de other side. Do de same when de eye turn …”. How many Jamaicans and Caribbean people have passed on this knowledge to successive generations during the…
December 9, 2025
Neil Richards | Consequences of building on very dangerous sites
There is a fatal attraction to the practice of building on dangerous sites that seem to be ‘easy pickings’ for unauthorised occupation. Persons who squat on public or private land, seem to be embolden…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | Long-term pain
With little pretence, he said, over furrowed brows and 60 years on his clock, “As time passes it becomes crystal clear that Melissa caused more death, destruction, turmoil, and mayhem than one could…
December 9, 2025
António Costa | Building our common future
Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean have always been natural partners. Today, in an increasingly unstable world, we choose to draw even closer and strengthen our friendship. The upcoming CELAC-EU…
December 9, 2025
Curtis Ward | Build back better and smarter: a response to environmental challenges
We repeat our mistakes and get the same results and at times even worse. The prophet Hosea (8:7) warned us, “You sow the wind you shall reap the storm.” Not a literal translation. We often hear, in…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Create your own post hurricane reality
This week has been all about Hurricane Melissa and that’s likely to be the case for many more weeks. So there’s no better time for a reminder of the power of positive thinking. In that regard you need…
December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | Farewell to Nigeria’s pioneering female scholar-diplomat
Joy Uche Ogwu, Nigeria’s most prominent female scholar-diplomat, recently died in New York at the age of 79. In a deeply patriarchal, male-chauvinist Nigerian society in which women are often…
December 9, 2025
Mark Golding | Unity, transparency and compassion must guide Jamaica’s recovery
In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, our nation faces the harsh reality of rebuilding lives, communities, and livelihoods. In these moments of collective hardship, political divisions must give way…
December 9, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Palisadoes Peninsula: Lessons from Melissa
Hurricane Melissa brought high seas along the Palisadoes Peninsula, and the coastal protection works held firm. Minister Daryl Vaz reported that he was “pleased to update the public that the…