Commentary
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…