Commentary

Youths use wheelbarrows to carry debris out of their homes, which were damaged by gang violence, in the Solino neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
December 9, 2025

Ronald Sanders | Haiti needs single strategy, real money, and political discipline

I return to a focus on Haiti because it is too easy for the world to discard the situation in that beleaguered country. In part, it is precisely because insufficient attention has been paid to Haiti…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Extend personal income tax debate

With the general election concluded with another victory for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), the Holness administration should extend with itself the debate about income tax policy it had with the…
Major Basil Jarrett
December 9, 2025

Basil Jarrett | Don’t sit on it – your prostate will thank you

SOME DAYS ago, I had to visit a friend at the Tony Thwaites Wing (TTW) of the University Hospital of the West Indies. TTW has always puzzled me. For years, it had sort of developed a reputation as the…
Earl Jarrett, chairman of the ECJ.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | ECJ must speak

This newspaper has no question about the competence of Glasspole Brown or his capacity to speak with authority about the technical aspects of the conduct of elections in Jamaica. But when it comes to…
Trump ... destroying the international rules-based system, flawed though it may be.
December 9, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | Is indiscipline stifling development?

Heeding discipline shows the way to life – The book of Proverbs Without discipline there is no life. – Katharine Hepburn
Golding ... shows promise – brains, steadiness, and a willingness to be his own man.
December 9, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | ‘Ketchie-Shubbie’ politics, the youth and PNP’s identity crisis!

ON SEPTEMBER 3, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) secured another term. From his vantage point, the victory felt hard-fought and well-earned. Opposition Leader Mark…
Dorey McPherson awaiting the arrival of firefighters to free her trapped leg after several failed efforts by passers-by who rushed to her aid.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Morant Bay, Negril and small things

Morant Bay and Negril are at different ends of Jamaica. The former is in the east, on the island’s south coast. It is the capital of the parish of St Thomas, which lags the rest of Jamaica in…
In this January photo, heavy presence of security forces is seen on Wellington Street in Spanish Town, after the fatal shooting of alleged don ‘Thickman’ during a police operation.
December 9, 2025

Michael Abrahams | ‘Good’ shootouts are bad

Last week, there was a deadly shootout in Mandeville where a man shot and killed another after a dispute, rumoured to be about payment for eggs. The gunman fled the scene, but the security forces…
People are seen waiting in Edgewater to cast their votes.
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | The essence of passengers

It was two weeks after Apocrypha’s general elections but Oma D’unn was still busy fielding electoral complaints. Regular visitors to that fantasyland where all politicians are friends remember retired…