Commentary

Former Reggae Boyz technical director, Rene Simoes, speaks to students of Garvey Maceo High School in Clarendon recently.
April 30, 2026

Dennis Blake | Jamaica is losing its classrooms — and we are all to blame

Jamaica is facing a crisis that can no longer be softened with polite language or buried beneath statistics. Violence has moved from the streets into our classrooms, and, in some cases, our schools…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness (centre); Dr Carla Barnett (left), secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); and Dr Amstrong Alexis, deputy secretary general of CARICOM, during a Plenary Business Session at the 49th Regular Meeting of the C
April 29, 2026

Editorial | Searching for an SG

It is urgent that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) engineer a sensible solution to the impasse over the extension of the mandate of its secretary general, Carla Barnett. At this point, that solution…
In this photo released by the Pakistan Foreign Ministry, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, meets with Pakistani Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, left, upon his arrival at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, April 24, 2026.
April 29, 2026

Elizabeth Morgan | A global state of distress

Last week, this column looked at the oil crisis triggered by the US/Israel war with Iran, which started on February 28. This has led to the blockading of the Strait of Hormuz by both the USA and Iran.…
Norris McDonald
April 29, 2026

Norris R. McDonald | America and CARICOM’S psychology of ‘glad dependency!’

Dr Eric Williams, in From Columbus to Castro, warned that the Caribbean suffers from a crippling psychological dependence that shapes every aspect of life – economic, cultural, and political.…
Natalia Webber-Smith, principal attorney of Simply Legal Attorneys-at-Law, and CEO of Title Watch Limited
April 29, 2026

Natalia Webber-Smith | Land a nuh escallion and thyme

In Jamaica, we may have heard the phrase “land a nuh escallion and thyme”. This saying has been handed down through generations as a reminder that land is precious, limited, and should never be taken…
Louis E.A. Moyston, PhD, lecturer in the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies
April 29, 2026

Louis E.A. Moyston | Where have all the PWDs gone?

Those persons who were born before Independence and probably a decade after 1962 will readily understand the acronym PWD which, of course, is the Public Works Department. I thought about the PWD the…
Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority.
April 28, 2026

Editorial | External audit for NSWMA

There are some people who, intuitively, possess extraordinary insights, emotional intelligence, organisational skills and a capacity to absorb and process information, that make them, despite lack of…
Fadi Al Zein, who lost both his homes in Israeli strikes in his village of Khiam and in Dahiyeh, smokes a water pipe inside his heavily damaged home in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Lebanon.
April 28, 2026

Gordon Robinson | A luta continua

Pundits worldwide are speculating on who’s winning the war between USA/Israel and Iran/Lebanon. Donald Dumdum keeps saying he obliterated Iran’s military assets and already won the war. Yet, long…
Representational image of a youngster chatting online with an anonymous person.
April 28, 2026

Michael Abrahams | Exposing a ‘rape academy’

In September 2020, French police arrested a man named Dominique Pelicot for secretly taking photographs beneath women’s clothing (upskirting) in a supermarket. Unfortunately, that was just the tip of…