Commentary
January 19, 2026
Leonardo Stanley | COP30: Promises, lies, and hopes
One of the most controversial points of the meetings that bring together the international community at the recently concluded climate conference — the Conference of the Parties (COP) — centres on the…
January 19, 2026
by Carlton FearonGuest Columnist
When ‘mind your own business’ becomes a moral blindfold
Few phrases travel more easily through our society than “mind your own business”. It is offered as wisdom, as protection, and often as virtue. Closely tied to it are other familiar sayings: “keep out…
January 19, 2026
Nand C. Bardouille | Can CARICOM hedge against American unilateralism?
The great powers' current revival of a spheres of influence-based international order, coming at the expense of (once) US-led liberal internationalism, is being closely watched by Caribbean…
January 19, 2026
Simone A. Williams | Why Jamaica’s water laws deliver infrastructure…but not universal service
Jamaica has no shortage of water laws. For more than a century, Parliament has passed legislation to govern water supply, protect watersheds, control floods, license abstraction, regulate utility…
January 18, 2026
Editorial | New strategies for new era
A comforting story of multilateralism and liberal democracy that has guided Caribbean thinking for the last 70-80 years is fast disappearing. The region has to face a new era without an open world…
January 18, 2026
Curtis Ward | Words of war could be deadly in 2026
The recent exchange of harsh words and threats of violence between President Donald Trump and Iran government officials represents a mere smidgen of the hate that exists between the Trump…
January 18, 2026
Dennis Blake | Why Jamaica’s churches must move from pews to policy
For generations, the Church has been one of Jamaica’s most trusted institutions. In communities where schools struggled, families fractured, and governments changed, the Church remained – steady,…
January 18, 2026
Garth Rattray | The Sargassum seaweed can be useful
Recently, I saw a short documentary on the Sargassum seaweed ‘invasion’ of the Caribbean Sea. Then I recalled that my wife and several of her relatives encountered mounds of the seaweed on the beach…
January 18, 2026
Orville Taylor | Jamaica: Our bed of roses
One of the stupidest expressions used regularly is “Life is not a bed of roses” When our relatives and friends migrate north, they often say it in reference to ‘Farrin’. Now, every Jamaican knows that…