Commentary
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Bon accord, bonne aventure
When I was 16 years old my parents decided to take me with them to Tobago where my father’s drinking partner and family member had a place where there were four rooms for “rent”. We got one for free…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Hoping for a good breeze-blow
I monitored Melissa on-line as she passed well to the south of Kingston on Sunday night, and rejoiced that the capital was spared the worst. And then she didn’t turn north when expected, and I hoped…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Sanders | Coercion in daylight: The world must outlaw arbitrary detention
The practice has an ugly name and an uglier intent: arbitrary detention in state-to-state relations means this: tyrannical regimes seize innocents to make other governments submit to their wishes. As…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Partnership for recovery
The obvious priority for the Government at this time must be to mitigate the immediate impact of the devastation of most of western Jamaica by Melissa – among the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | JUTC vs private firms
Last week’s complaint by JUTA Tours against the Government’s bus company’s inauguration of long-haul express services, reopens this newspaper’s question of three months ago about the wisdom of state…
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | Jamaica and natural disasters – preparation should be high priority
AT THE time of writing, we are still waiting for Hurricane Melissa, now category 5, which could be the most powerful hurricane ever experienced in Jamaica since records have been kept. As many of us…
December 9, 2025
Norris R. McDonald | Venezuela, Exxon, and God King Trump’s militarisation of greed!
Exxon’s 2026 plunge into Jamaica’s Walton Morant Basin isn’t just about oil — it is imperialism snapping at Caribbean sovereignty. Early estimates suggest that a potential yield of 406 million barrels…
December 9, 2025
Sabrina Barnes | Period poverty exists and language matters
IN RECENT conversations around access to menstrual products and healthcare, a provocative claim has surfaced: “Oh, period poverty doesn’t exist. People can buy things. Poor people boasty. Call it…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Is Haiti ready?
As midwife to Haiti’s transitional arrangement, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) should signal its position on whether the country can hold credible elections in four months time and what may be…