Commentary
January 1, 2026
Andrew Holness | A New Year of purpose, progress and confidence
We give God thanks for sparing us to see 2026, and we pause to remember the lives lost to Hurricane Melissa, the third most powerful hurricane ever recorded globally, and the most destructive storm…
January 1, 2026
Mark Golding | May 2026 be a year of healing, renewal, and collective progress
My fellow Jamaicans, at home and abroad, Happy New Year to you all. While we have collectively and individually endured many challenges, 2025 tested our strength and resolve in ways none of us could…
January 1, 2026
Basil Jarrett |That Diddy documentary
Netflix documentary The Reckoning, which traces the rise and fall of Sean ‘P-Diddy’ Combs from Harlem party promoter to billionaire music mogul, and follows the wave of abuse allegations and federal…
January 1, 2026
Matthew Hyatt | Protecting the presumption of innocence
In Jamaica, people are often brought before the criminal courts to answer to charges against them. It is important to understand that such charges rest upon the foundation of mere allegations by…
December 31, 2025
Editorial | SSL arrests not for the money
In parsing the circumlocutory remarks of bosses at the investigative agencies that were involved in last weekend’s choreographed arrest of three former officials of Stocks and Securities Limited…
December 31, 2025
Sayeed Bernard | Rethink mandatory minimum for imitation firearms
Jamaica’s crime problem demands strength. We all want a justice system that strikes fear into the hearts of those who threaten our citizens. But strength without fairness becomes punishment for…
December 31, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | Is Canada quietly forging its own path?
We here in Jamaica spend a lot of time following the news out of the US and are quite knowledgeable about the political and economic developments there.
December 30, 2025
Editorial | Rescuing local government
In the reconstruction after the devastation by Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s ‘building back better’ shouldn’t only be about the island’s hard infrastructure. Government institutions – whose capacity…
December 30, 2025
Paula Anne Moore | Our children deserve better: The case for education reform in CARICOM
If 2020 was the year thousands of Caribbean students and parents first raised the alarm about the reliability, validity, and fairness of CXC examinations, then 2025 was the year the region finally…