Commentary
December 11, 2025
Seya Wilson | Hurricane Melissa and the climate future we cannot ignore
Hurricanes of Melissa’s intensity are not meant to appear with such frequency, nor develop such destructive force just moments before landfall. Yet here we are, facing the climate reality scientists…
December 11, 2025
SSP Diaries | Setting the stage for global destruction – Part 1
IN TODAY’S world many of us are losing sight of the fact that modern conflicts have negative impacts upon our own well-being and make it even more difficult for small island developing states to…
December 11, 2025
Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe | After Hurricane Melissa: Environmental impact on public health and safety
After the hurricane, the environment is impacted by flooding, erosion, and contamination from sewage, dead animals, debris, agricultural waste and chemical substances. The effect is already being…
December 10, 2025
Editorial | PM Godwin Friday’s error
Godwin Friday’s government in St Vincent and the Grenadines is off to an unfortunate start. It has stumbled badly on its first significant ethical test. Dr Friday is allowing Kishore Shallow, the…
December 10, 2025
Norris R. McDonald | Trump, Hegseth, and US hegemony: Blood in our waters
ON DECEMBER 4, the US Senate and Congress launched investigations into a horrific incident where unarmed fishermen, survivors of an American airstrike, were later deliberately targeted and killed…
December 10, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | US National Security Strategy – modernising the Monroe Doctrine
AS THERE remains concern about US military activities in the southern Caribbean in which, so far, 86 people have been killed in US military strikes on small boats, it came to attention that the 2025…
December 10, 2025
Curtis Ward | Be vigilant: expose corruption in hurricane relief and recovery
Saying there are significant concerns by many in Jamaica and in the diaspora that the government on its own cannot be trusted to distribute hurricane relief without bias and favour would be an…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Income-linked student loans
The Government’s movement to implement its so-called debt-reset programme for student borrowers will be of unquestionable value to the debtors, especially in an economically difficult post-hurricane…
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | We must demand broad-based oversight
Oversight is a crucial tool in governance for ensuring accountability, transparency and effectiveness. It enables adherence to rules and laws and, in doing so, acts as a vital check-and-balance to…