Commentary

The European flag, left, flies at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France.
December 30, 2025

Curtis Ward | Evolution of European geopolitical and international security leadership

The internal dynamics aside, the European Union and the United Kingdom (EU+UK) are evolving as a major participant in global leadership–as a collective rather than as a unipolar focused power…
Digicel headquarters in downtown Kingston
December 30, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Local Domino Awards 2025

It’s time for Part Deux of the fourteenth annual Domino Awards – memorial for the Khooky Khast of Kharacters from my wasted youth. Congratulations to the winners especially of awards named for the…
Kerrie Symmonds,  minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade of Barbados
December 29, 2025

Editorial | Mr Symmonds is right

Barbados’ foreign minister, Kerrie Symmonds, has given his “superiors” – as he refers to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government – very sound advice. He has urged them to gather “behind…
AI agents are artificial intelligence systems that can use other software tools and act on their own.
December 29, 2025

Thomas Şerban von Davier | The rise of AI agents in 2025 and what 2026 brings

In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools. At the center of this transition was the rise of AI…
This aerial photo shows a traffic gridlock in Lacovia, St Elizabeth after Hurricane Melissa hit in October.
December 29, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Spotlight on accountability

This means being responsible for and responsive to each other. The redeeming national virtue of 2025 has been the generosity of spirit, that most sacred civic faculty, shown by so many Jamaicans to…
December 29, 2025

Ruthlyn James | Assessment queue is new locked school gate

In Jamaica today, children are not just being excluded at the school gates, they are being excluded in the assessment queue. A child may be fully enrolled, with fees paid yet still be functionally…
A second-hand clothes retailer folds second-hand jeans at his stall at Owino Market in Kampala, Uganda.
December 29, 2025

Angela Lekan | Time to let nature walk the runway

When it’s New York Fashion Week, and before we stop to admire the glitz and glamour, we need to celebrate fashion and beauty’s ultimate, timeless inspiration: Nature. For centuries, designers have…
Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations were taking place at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, on November 21, in Belém, Brazil.
December 29, 2025

Matheus Pereira | COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in the city of Belém, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, may go down in history for something that goes far beyond technical…
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December 28, 2025

Editorial | Widen discussions on US-Jamaica relations

It is noted that the Jamaican and US governments have provided only scanty details of the December 11 talks in Kingston between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and senior officials of the US Department…