Commentary
17 Oct, 2026
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Tony Deyal | Where do we go from here?
(This is to thank Ms Reetoo Deonarinesingh for working with “My Trinidad - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”) Keeping with us tonight to look ahead at where we plan to go from here, I feel that we…
17 Oct, 2026
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Ronald Sanders | Caribbean ‘too rich for help’: When will the fiction end?
On October 14, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between…
16 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Extend water-party ban
Given the drought Jamaica has faced, bouts of showers in recent days, associated with a trough in the central Caribbean, are a welcome development. It, however, doesn’t mean that the island is out of…
16 Oct, 2026
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Kristen Gyles | While Hurricane Melissa victims wait
Imagine there’s a large 10-storey building down the road that has caught fire. The building has people in it. The building has very expensive equipment in it. The building has furniture in it. The…
16 Oct, 2026
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Peter Espeut | Slavery and chattel slavery
I recommend that you watch the video recording of a seminar by John Shorter, held Thursday (October 8) by the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank titled ‘Asante Goldweights and…
15 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | The politics of an execution
America’s planned livestreaming of the firing-squad execution of Muslim-American former Army officer Nidal Hasan in December seems, in the context of a liberal democracy in the 21st century, a…
15 Oct, 2026
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Dalila Gonçalves/Nahuel Arenas | Investing in resilient infrastructure:
It takes less than two minutes to lose a home – and with it, a lifetime of hard work and savings. Viviana Gil knows this firsthand. On August 10, a 7.4 earthquake in Colombia destroyed the apartment…
15 Oct, 2026
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Dwayne Vernon | NaRRA: Hubris on the waterfront
The ancient Greeks had a word for the moment a powerful man starts believing his own press releases: hubris. They also had a word for what comes next: nemesis. Between the two lies a long history of…
14 Oct, 2026
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Editorial | Who has it in for the CCJ?
Were this newspaper given to conspiracy theories, it might believe that there is a deliberate attempt to undermine and collapse the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) from within. Either that, or some…