Commentary
December 22, 2025
Mary Dzon | The Bible says little about Jesus' childhood
Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger – an animal feeding bin –…
December 22, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | Donald Trump and the White Man’s Burden in Nigeria
US President Donald Trump recently threatened to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”. Trump has three possible motives for making such a threat: his mercantilist…
December 21, 2025
Editorial | Owners must oust Shallow
Sadly, Donovan Bennett, the president of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), can’t be relied on to prime the moral levers for Kishore Shallow to vacate the presidency of Cricket West Indies (CWI).…
December 21, 2025
Howard Mitchell | Inspiring integrity – a collective call to action
The International Centre for Academic Integrity alludes to five fundamental values necessary to sustain integrity in any circumstance: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. As…
December 21, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Land tenure and board houses
Lack of land tenure remains a major handicap for over 200,000 families. According to Pearnel Charles Jr in 2020: “People squat for so many reasons, primarily because they don’t have adequate…
December 21, 2025
Garth Rattray | A not so merry Christmas this year
The traditional “Merry Christmas” will not be so for many this year. Their reality has been upended; they lost all that they held dear. Roofs, and homes, possessions, and lives were all taken away,…
December 21, 2025
Orville Taylor | Christmas musings 2025
No chimney at my house. No reindeer, despite their resemblance to the Ras’ goats. The man carrying a long bag is a well known smoker of hard drugs and his peers always point him out whenever he is…
December 20, 2025
Editorial | Addressing migration
Hurricane Melissa’s cruel displacement of tens of thousands of people in Jamaica’s western parishes will probably give Jamaicans a sense of the plight of people in other countries who are forced to…
December 20, 2025
Tony Deyal | Trinidad Christmas for the world
For the great Mighty Sparrow and those who followed him to develop the mix in Trinidad & Tobago and share it around the world - read, share, play and enjoy this Christmas