Commentary

Gordon Robinson writes: You’ve nothing to learn from your successes. But your failures are your best teachers.
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Family is everything

Recently, I’ve been forced to remember life’s meaning which has nothing to do with success or failure. Because I understand the real meaning of life, I don’t think about my successes especially as…
Jimmy Cliff in Zambia in 1982. Pictured are: (from left) President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia; Jimmy Cliff, and Mumba Kapumpa, Director of the Zambian Arts Council. Seated behind President Kaunda is Sam Nujoma, then leader of the SWAPO liberation movement a
December 9, 2025

Sousa Jamba | Jimmy Cliff’s African Legacy

There was, in the life of Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican now at rest, a quiet marvel: perhaps he never suspected how deeply his voice penetrated anonymous lives across the world, including my own. For many…
Professor Augustine John
December 9, 2025

Professor Gus John | A marriage made in hell

November 2025 was 60 years since the Race Relations Act of 1965 came into force. That act is acknowledged as the first piece of legislation in the United Kingdom to address the prohibition of racial…
CWI president Dr Kishore Shallow.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Kishore Shallow must go

Kishore Shallow, the president of Cricket West Indies, clearly doesn’t get it.
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December 9, 2025

Editorial | Surviving the crisis

Before October 28 when powerful Hurricane Melissa wrecked the west of the island, Jamaica was on a path of modest, but encouraging, recovery from the impact of hurricane Beryl of 2024. Inflation had…
In this file photo, a group of students is seen standing at their school gate.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Astonishing turnarounds

There is one state in the US where they calculate the number of prison cells needed in 15 years time by checking the number of male students leaving grade 3 who cannot read. We could do the same.…
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Lloyd Barnett | Duties and responsibilities of parliamentarians

Historically and universally the elected representatives of the people have been regarded as constituting the critical agents for the control of arbitrary government. An early and famous…
Houses in the Brompton Manor development destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Christopher Burgess | Rebuild housing in western Jamaica

Almost six weeks ago, Hurricane Melissa devastated western Jamaica and exposed long-standing inequalities. It damaged 190,000 homes and hit the most vulnerable — families in board houses on leased and…
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December 9, 2025

Garth Rattray | The paradoxical desocialisation by social media – Part 2

I am a huge fan of the WhatsApp social media platform. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I get hundreds of messages daily. WhatsApp was especially helpful in maintaining stability, connectivity,…