Commentary
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Clean brigades, please
The authorities’ confirmation of an outbreak of leptospirosis is not, in the circumstances, particularly surprising. Surges in infectious and communicable diseases often happen in the aftermath of…
December 9, 2025
Norris R. McDonald | Zohran Mamdani and Gen-Z’s rebellion against US power brokers!
ZOHRAN MAMDANI, a self-declared democratic socialist, has achieved what many thought was impossible: he defeated the Democratic party’s old guards, including Andrew Cuomo, to become New York’s mayor.…
December 9, 2025
Lance Neita | Hurricane blues – Sharing perspectives of a night of terror
SO MUCH already written on the hurricane and so much more to be written on this ineffaceable part of our history. I remember thinking as I watched the Twin Towers fall in 9/11, America will never be…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | The essence of compatibility
Over in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland beyond the clouds where all politicians are friends, the talk was all about football. The Apocryphan national football team had just blown what seemed a…
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | Blessed are the sinners
In 2017, the Jamaica Yellow Pages produced a telephone directory with a cover featuring a painting depicting a dancehall session. However, a church lobby group, the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | CARICOM resilience bond
The visit to hurricane-ravaged western Jamaica last week by a muster of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders was meant as a demonstration of regional solidarity.
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Paths to recovery?
Explain to us, simple folks, how economic recovery is engineered when probably half of our people have lost most everything and have no earnings to pay for food and provide shelter. Faced with this…
December 9, 2025
Lloyd Barnett | Fixed dates for general and by-elections
The question of whether or not there should be fixed election dates has been one of long and intense debate. Section 64(2) of Jamaica’s Constitution provides that Parliament continues for five years…
December 9, 2025
Howard Beckford | Urgent need to decentralise post Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa did more than devastate homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods across Jamaica. It exposed a weakness we have ignored for far too long. Our highly centralised system of government…