Commentary
21 Nov, 2025
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Christopher Burgess | Avoiding vulnerabilities in recovery
Hurricane Melissa revealed that Jamaica’s weakness is not only fragile coordination but fragile infrastructure. Empathy and equity must remain at the heart of the recovery process. As Jamaica moves…
20 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority a good start
The Government’s concurrence with this newspaper’s call for a legislated special purpose vehicle to undertake the post-Hurricane Melissa reconstruction of western Jamaica is a good start towards the…
20 Nov, 2025
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Peter Espeut | God is not like humanity
Many of us Jamaicans are Old Testament people – which is fine if we follow the Jewish faith tradition. But if we are children of the New Covenant – the New Testament – then we follow a different…
20 Nov, 2025
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Ohene Blake | Cauterising the adverse economic impacts of Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has devastated the western third or more of Jamaica. This is the prime real sector for economic growth. It is the centre of agricultural food production for the entire Jamaican and…
19 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Specific body for rebuilding
There is no question that Hurricane Melissa severely battered western Jamaica. Indeed, even as the assessment becomes more granular, what is known so far of the impact of the Category 5 storm is…
19 Nov, 2025
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Basil Jarrett | World Children’s Day and a broken Jamaica
IF YOU grew up in the ‘90s, you remember them. Those heart-breaking UNICEF ads that just seemed to ambush your conscience as you settled in for some mindless Fresh Prince of Belair or WWE Smackdown.…
19 Nov, 2025
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Monique Oates | Replanting hope: Feeding Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa did more than upend lives, destroy the housing stock and sever the road network, she uprooted Jamaica’s food security. The once-fertile parishes of St Elizabeth and Manchester, long…
18 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Melissa clean-up brigades
The emergence of several cases of leptospirosis and tetanus in western Jamaica since the passage of Hurricane Melissa underlines the need for fast action by the Government to head off a potential…
18 Nov, 2025
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Wang Jinfeng | Standing together in solidarity to overcome difficulties
HURRICANE MELISSA has left a trail of casualties and extensive property losses in Jamaica, a situation that has brought deep concern and sorrow to us all. Sharing Jamaica’s pain, China extended its…