Commentary
June 14, 2026
Trevor Munroe | Alongside 'supporting oversight’, improve efficiency, strengthen accountability
‘Supporting oversight’ is how The Gleaner editorial of June 2, summed up former Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s remarks at a recent Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal symposium. Golding’s comments…
June 14, 2026
Danielle Archer | Jamaica’s democratic test has already begun
There are moments in a nation’s life when the air feels heavier than the headlines. Jamaica is in one of those moments now, a moment when the public can sense that something deeper than a policy…
June 14, 2026
Garth Rattray | Jamaica needs permanent emergency shelters
We are once again in the dreaded hurricane season. It begins on June 1 and ends on November 30 each year. After the utter devastation, in parts of central and western Jamaica, wrought by Hurricane…
June 14, 2026
Orville Taylor | To be global, host must be neutral
Proud I am that the only UN body that is headquartered in a developing country is in Jamaica. It is a big deal. Other UN organs, such as the WHO and the ILO, are based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a…
June 13, 2026
Editorial | Lessons from Cox’s Bazar
It isn’t a name that’s familiar to the people of Jamaica, or the wider Caribbean –Cox’s Bazar.
Cox’s Bazar is a 13 square kilometre tent city in Bangladesh. The people who live there, 1.2 million…
June 13, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Why the Commonwealth matters again
Small and medium-size states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle-income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power…
June 13, 2026
Tony Deyal | From the calypsonians - rolling goals or holes?
Lord Melody (Fitzroy Alexander), was a Trinidadian calypsonian best known for ‘singles such as Boo Boo Man, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Shame & Scandal, Jonah and the Bake, Juanita,…
June 12, 2026
Peter Espeut | Raiding the house money
I remember clearly when the National Housing Trust (NHT) was established in 1976; I was in my 20s.
In 1975 the total national budget was roughly J$800 million, and Jamaica had an acute housing…
June 12, 2026
Patrice Quesada | What migration dialogues reveal about the Caribbean’s future
The last few weeks have been particularly rich for migration dialogues in the Caribbean. Moving between global, regional and national spaces, I’m encouraged by how they point in the same direction:…