Commentary
13 Jul, 2026
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Jennifer Nunes | CARICOM secretary-general controversy and the future of regional unity
Professor Rajendra Ramlogan’s thesis, however impressively framed in law, does not register in any practical sense when applied to the realities of Caribbean governance.
The argument – commissioned…
13 Jul, 2026
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13 Jul, 2026
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Nand C Bardouille | Guyana's candidate for top UN post receives backing of Caribbean leaders
Members of a leading regional grouping of Caribbean countries have converged around a candidate regarding the much-publicised race for the next United Nations (UN) Secretary-General.
13 Jul, 2026
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Ronald Thwaites | Revival time
This is the hardest time of year for those of us who are concerned with high-school placement. The Ministry of Education oozes self-satisfaction that nine out of ten transitioning students were…
13 Jul, 2026
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Christopher Burgess | Jamaica’s no-competition, no-growth economy
Jamaica’s economy has a persistent low-growth problem. For five decades, growth has remained stuck at roughly one per cent annually, while comparable economies have expanded at two to four per cent.…
13 Jul, 2026
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Editorial | FID not the place
Matthew Samuda is probably well-meaning. But his proposal that the review of wealth declarations by members of Parliament’s Integrity Commission (IC) Oversight Committee be removed from the IC is a…
11 Jul, 2026
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Editorial | The geopolitics of Alpart
The announcement by the mining minister, Floyd Green, that China’s Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) plans to spend US$490 million to modernise and increase capacity at their Alpart alumina…
11 Jul, 2026
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Dennis Zulu | New global standard for decent work in the digital economy
The digital platform economy, often associated with the “gig economy”, has expanded at a rapid pace in many countries across the world over the past decade.
It is now well documented that digital…
11 Jul, 2026
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Patrick Robinson | A statue of the transformational coach
Where did it all begin? In a paper for a workshop, Stephen Francis wrote that, in 1998 at the World Junior Championships in France, he listened as coaches from the US said, “Coaching teenagers is…