Commentary
08 Mar, 2026
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Editorial | Minister Williams and Independent Fiscal Commission
The law establishing the Independent Fiscal Commission (IFC) sets out specific rules for the publication of reviews of the government’s fiscal strategies and outcomes. It is silent on if, or how,…
08 Mar, 2026
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Byron Blake | CARICOM’s support for Guyana: Unquestionable
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in seeking to justify a clear departure from established CARICOM practice and align with President Donald Trump, has raised the issue of…
08 Mar, 2026
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Xinyu Addae-Lee | From hope to action
On February 9, Children of Shanghai was screened in partnership with Care for Children, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), and the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and…
08 Mar, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Inhibitions to being fruitful and multiply – Part 1
Recently, there has been a lot of talk and concern about Jamaica’s falling fertility rate. Things have certainly changed. Several decades ago, we were experiencing a population boom. Our people were…
08 Mar, 2026
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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…
07 Mar, 2026
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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…
07 Mar, 2026
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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…
07 Mar, 2026
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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…
06 Mar, 2026
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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.