Commentary
April 19, 2026
Dennis Zulu | Governing artificial intelligence: Why Jamaica’s voice matters in a digital age
Artificial intelligence is moving faster than many of our institutions, laws, and public conversations. It is already influencing how people access information, how governments and businesses make…
April 19, 2026
Orville Taylor | No Türkiye: Who cries foul?
Although he went to Rabalac, Fedrick Dacres is one of the closest athletes to me ever. He and Kai Chang are such decent human beings who love their sport and their country. It was a proud struggle…
April 19, 2026
Garth Rattray | When music becomes noise
Jamaica’s Noise Abatement Act of 1997 is up for review. Although noise is never musical, music can be [very] noisy. Loud music can be extremely invasive, disturbing, intensely unpleasant, blatantly…
April 19, 2026
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Jamaica’s oil gamble in the midst of a climate crisis
Whenever United Oil and Gas, a UK-based company with exploration rights in Jamaica, announces progress in its offshore exploration, a flurry of excitement ripples through Jamaica’s media and other…
April 19, 2026
Editorial | Dealing effectively with autism
There isn’t a handle on the true scale of autism in Jamaica. It is estimated that one in 100 children (one per cent) is diagnosed with the disorder. The absence of hard data is allowing the scale…
April 18, 2026
Tony Deyal | Bill Maher takes the high road
In Trinidad, when I was three years old, my aunt taught me to read from her daily English newspaper. Even then, I loved words and the world they opened to me. In my boyish days, I played with the…
April 18, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Resolving CARICOM’s leadership impasse
As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than 50 years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional…
April 17, 2026
Editorial | Transforming UHWI
The disclosure of the University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) J$18 billion debt to Jamaica’s tax authorities, adds another titillating bit to the tales of impunity and dysfunction the auditor…
April 17, 2026
Peter Espeut | Don’t look now: we’ve been conquered!
Speaking at the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference on March 5, at US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) headquarters in Doral, Florida (Jamaica was among the 17 countries present), Peter Brian…