Commentary
05 Dec, 2025
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Editorial | Equality for persons with disabilities
In marking the International Day for Persons with Disabilities earlier this week, Pearnel Charles Jr, the labour and social security minister, stated a truism. The days of discussing this subject, or…
05 Dec, 2025
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Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe | After Hurricane Melissa – Understanding sanitation vs sanitisation: A public health dilemma
We will agree that the passing of Melissa, a Category 5 Hurricane, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, has again brought us to a place akin to where we were during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It is a…
05 Dec, 2025
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The regional labor market: Growth without formalisation, recession with precarisation
The countries of the region are characterised by being small and open economies, which means that their growth is heavily conditioned by the level of global economic activity – particularly that of…
05 Dec, 2025
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Anthony Savari Raj | Cosmic confidence: A hope in the invisible
As we all know and painfully witnessed, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with devastating and catastrophic consequences. Anticipating the adversity in store for his…
04 Dec, 2025
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Editorial | Plan container homes
Having earmarked more than J$2.6 billion for the purchase of container homes for victims of Hurricane Melissa, it is important that the government outline a clear and transparent strategy for where…
04 Dec, 2025
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Tony Deyal | Naughty, nice and Santa
Three weeks before Christmas and already my family and friends are getting ready for what I will give them and, as important, what I will write for each of the weeks before Thursday, December 25. This…
04 Dec, 2025
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Peter Espeut | Sovereign immunity in a republic?
One of the objectionable things about a monarchy is that not everyone is equal under the law; the principle of “Sovereign Immunity” makes the reigning monarch as head of state exempt from criminal and…
04 Dec, 2025
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Kristen Gyles | Big black tanks don’t spring water
Jamaica seems to depend on storms and hurricanes for water. Unless we experience rainfall heavy enough to cause major flooding and damage to property, we are subjected year by year to stringent water…
04 Dec, 2025
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Ronald Sanders | The UN is fading — we should worry
The United Nations is being starved quietly. This month in New York, the Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned the General Assembly’s budget committee that the UN is entering a “race to…