Commentary
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | What if Hurricane Melissa landed in Kingston?
Category 5 hurricane Melissa was described as “catastrophic” as it approached our shores, and then rapidly transformed from a tropical storm into a monstrous hurricane packing wind gusts of up to…
December 9, 2025
Greta Merrill | The world unites in the face of crisis
In these trying times for the environmental movement, it can sometimes feel impossible to find the (solar-powered) light. In September the International Day of Preservation of the Ozone Layer (or…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Help MSMEs after Melissa
Each day reveals more of the damage left behind by Hurricane Melissa. The Category 5 hurricane battered Jamaica’s western parishes — St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover, St James, and parts of…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | A subterranean grid
Andrew Holness has put the issue of subterranean power lines back on Jamaica’s agenda, but the matter, in the current circumstances, insists on a deeper, and more urgent, discussion than the prime…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Hope springs eternal
Two days ago (last Wednesday) my wife and I accompanied a few friends on a journey to the isolated community of Seaford Town in deep rural Westmoreland on a mission of mercy. Hurricane Melissa made…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Sanders | ‘Sovereignty’ – A plaything of the powerful?
For the powerful, sovereignty is a sword; for the small, it must remain a shield Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the…
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Hurricane Melissa: Help for all
The first time I met Jamaicans at Canada Hall of The University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad, initially, it was scary. I had just become the hall chairman when a huge Jamaican youth was…
December 9, 2025
Patrick Robinson | Track and field athletics is number one
Jamaica has been placed in what is, perhaps, the weakest qualification group – Jamaica, Bermuda, Curaçao and Trinidad and Tobago – ever created in the history of the World Cup. If the Reggae Boyz do…
December 9, 2025
Kristen Gyles | Better safe than sorry
Jamaica is very highly prone to natural disasters and specifically hurricanes, considering its position in the Atlantic hurricane belt. Although the last time we got a direct hit from a hurricane…