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December 9, 2025

Garth Rattray | Paradoxical desocialisation by social media – Part 1

Over the years, human beings have been extremely inventive and creative in discovering, inventing, or improving / developing things that are extremely useful to us as a race. Although we…
Ambassador Byron Blake
December 9, 2025

Byron Blake | COP30: A requiem for Jamaica and SIDS

With the omission of five small words, “transition away from fossil fuels”, from its final Declaration, COP30 sentenced Jamaica and other small islands and low-lying coastal states (SIDS) to an early…
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December 9, 2025

Orville Taylor | Frogs, plague and Melissa

Ignorance can be fatal. Panicked demagogues drew attention to a pond teeming with tadpoles. In a viral video, thousands of little black creatures wriggling and darkening the water. They were so…
Toppled JPS utility poles are seen along Hargreaves Avenue in Mandeville after Hurricane Melissa swept through Jamaica last month.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Case for underground power lines

Hugh Grant, the CEO of Jamaica Public Service (JPS), the light and power company, is right about the tremendous cost if the island were to run its overhead power lines underground. His solution:…
Demonstrators protest against cuts to American foreign aid spending, including USAID and the PEPFAR programme to combat HIV/AIDS, at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill Washington DC.
December 9, 2025

Richard Amenyah | Transforming AIDS response to build resilience and hope in the Caribbean

We are in an era of overlapping crises – global financial instability, widening inequalities, and escalating climate shocks, among others, which compound the challenges faced by people living with and…
Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations were taking place at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, on November 21, in Belém, Brazil.
December 9, 2025

Peter Espeut | No sustainability at COP 30

It seems that the only interests that went home happy after the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) that wrapped up last Saturday in…
December 9, 2025

Tony Deyal | ‘Doggone it’

I was at university in Canada hanging out with some of my colleagues in one of the lounges when one of them, looking at me, shouted loudly, “Doggone it, Tony.” I was upset and made it clear, “Listen…
Women sell food items at a street market in Owo, Southwestern Nigeria.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Sanders | Cost of less than a cup of coffee could end world hunger in five years

This commentary is dedicated to Patrick Cozier of Barbados, whose probing occasioned its writing.
Supporters listen as speakers share their views on reparations and other issues during the Black Power Network news conference at the state Capitol in 2023.
December 9, 2025

Adekeye Adebajo | The black Atlantic’s quest for reparations

The current geopolitical environment is arguably not conducive to pursuing reparations for slavery and colonialism. But Africa and its diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe continue to…