Commentary

A team from the Cuban Medical Brigade arriving in the Caribbean
March 8, 2026

Orville Taylor | Hasta luego Cubanos

Thousands of Jamaicans are going to be affected by the end of the 50-year-old programme of assistance, whereby medical professionals from Cuba come to this country and give yeoman service. A legacy…
Waves splash in Kingston, Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa approaches on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
March 7, 2026

Editorial | Take heed to rising sea levels

The risk of rising seas gobbling up more of Jamaica may be closer than previously thought, which should further concentrate the minds of policymakers who deal with these problems. A study by…
March 7, 2026

Tony Deyal | What’s this world coming to?

I was trying to understand where we are now in March 2026. More importantly, considering what this world is coming to, where do we go from here? I was looking at a column about people and it scared me…
A shepherd boy walks away from an unexploded Iranian projectile that landed in an open field in the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria.
March 7, 2026

Ronald Sanders | Global cost of Iran war, and the Caribbean fallout

It is a mistake to believe that the war in Iran and the retaliatory actions in the Gulf are too far away to matter to the Caribbean. The fallout is already reaching the region, pushing up the costs of…
This 2023 photo shows (from left) Benedict Oramah, then president of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), with Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados; Ralph Gonsalves, former prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Phillip Pierre, prime min
March 6, 2026

Editorial | Partnering with Africa

Last week’s announcement by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) of a two-thirds increase in its financing cap for the Caribbean – to US$5 billion over the next four years – was important.
A coffin is carried during the funeral of mostly children killed in what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-US strike February 28 at a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran.
March 6, 2026

Peter Espeut | Gold, glory and Orwell

The Christians are in Lent, the Muslims are in Ramadan, and the United States (US) is at war. The Catholic hierarchy in the US largely supported Donald Trump in the last US presidential election…
Kristen Gyles writes: ... one could say that the basis of the Christian lifestyle is not the suite of (expired) laws stated in the Old Testament, but is instead the principles outlined in the New Testament. That is a thought.
March 6, 2026

Kristen Gyles | The law that was ‘nailed to the Cross’

“He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.” A few years ago, in response to an article I wrote expressing discomfort with the concept of capital punishment, someone quoted…
Jamaica’s farmers are mostly low-skilled, mostly working small plots, using low technology.
March 5, 2026

Editorial | Food security and war

With the war in the Gulf region, it is unlikely that Andrew Dyer will set off to Dubai any time soon to teach mathematics. He may, however, still seek an alternative to onion farming if he continues…
Some of the children resident at Blessed Assurance who survived Hurricane Melissa.
March 5, 2026

Basil Jarrett | Blessed Assurance and the children Melissa almost erased

Nearly six months since Hurricane Melissa turned Western Jamaica upside down, life has returned to normal for most Jamaicans. I say most because unless you are a fan of blue tarpaulins as a statement…