Commentary

Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates.
30 Mar, 2026 0

Editorial | Hormuz and fertiliser

In the month since the United States and Israel attacked Iran – and Tehran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz – the world’s attention, including Jamaica’s – has been primarily on its …
Children carry into schools what they see modelled around them: how to handle conflict, how to defend themselves and how to prove worth.
30 Mar, 2026 0

Ronald Thwaites | Of dying and rising

In this mystical season where it appears that evil and death prevail then life, abundant life, eternal life, is restored, let us pause and re-examine our human purposes. What do Jamaicans really want…
Voters on election day.
30 Mar, 2026 0

Lloyd Barnett | Safeguarding the franchise

An essential requirement of democracy is that the government must be a government by the people. This means that those who govern must truly have been selected by the people. In this connection,…
“Reparations isn’t about looking for someone to blame today. It’s about asking a simple question: if something was broken, and we can still see the effects, do we have a responsibility to fix it?”: Dean Jones, founder of Jamaica Homes.
30 Mar, 2026 0

The price still being paid

Two centuries after emancipation, the case is no longer historical – it is immediate. The setting was formal. The language was careful. But the message carried weight. At the Organization of…
Members of Parliament before being swore at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament held on September 18, 2025 in Gordon House.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Editorial | Fixing the NaRRA Bill

The bill to establish the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the agency to lead Jamaica’s post-hurricane reconstruction, gets several important things right. But there are many…
People walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa passed.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Mickel Jackson | Climate justice beyond the rhetoric

There is no climate justice without social justice. Small island developing states like Jamaica, which emit a negligible fraction of the world’s greenhouse gases, bear a disproportionate brunt of the…
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Garth Rattray | Death in milliseconds

Despite the annual carnage on our roads, many drivers are not considering the innumerable ways that they are endangering themselves and other road users.
Ambassador Byron Blake
29 Mar, 2026 0

Byron Blake | Hurricane Melissa: To sue or not to sue, that is the question

On October 28, 2025, Hurricane Melissa clobbered Jamaica with an uppercut, the ferocity of which has never been measured before. It was as straight as it was clean. There was no doubt about the source…
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29 Mar, 2026 0

Orville Taylor | Ghana leads with UN resolution

India and China said “Yes!” Only 330 million live in the US. In Israel there are around 10 million inhabitants. Abstaining is not the same as voting “No!” although in certain elections, it could count…