In Focus
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | Long-term pain
With little pretence, he said, over furrowed brows and 60 years on his clock, “As time passes it becomes crystal clear that Melissa caused more death, destruction, turmoil, and mayhem than one could…
December 9, 2025
António Costa | Building our common future
Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean have always been natural partners. Today, in an increasingly unstable world, we choose to draw even closer and strengthen our friendship. The upcoming CELAC-EU…
December 9, 2025
Curtis Ward | Build back better and smarter: a response to environmental challenges
We repeat our mistakes and get the same results and at times even worse. The prophet Hosea (8:7) warned us, “You sow the wind you shall reap the storm.” Not a literal translation. We often hear, in…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Create your own post hurricane reality
This week has been all about Hurricane Melissa and that’s likely to be the case for many more weeks. So there’s no better time for a reminder of the power of positive thinking. In that regard you need…
December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | Farewell to Nigeria’s pioneering female scholar-diplomat
Joy Uche Ogwu, Nigeria’s most prominent female scholar-diplomat, recently died in New York at the age of 79. In a deeply patriarchal, male-chauvinist Nigerian society in which women are often…
December 9, 2025
Mark Golding | Unity, transparency and compassion must guide Jamaica’s recovery
In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, our nation faces the harsh reality of rebuilding lives, communities, and livelihoods. In these moments of collective hardship, political divisions must give way…
December 9, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Palisadoes Peninsula: Lessons from Melissa
Hurricane Melissa brought high seas along the Palisadoes Peninsula, and the coastal protection works held firm. Minister Daryl Vaz reported that he was “pleased to update the public that the…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | When tears are not enough
I can best express my pain by using the first words that come to me. And of course, it’s all about the destruction left behind by the passage of the monster hurricane, Melissa. The first words, quite…
December 9, 2025
Africka Stephens | Resilience is the real headline ... not that children were hiding in tunnels
When Hurricane Melissa loomed over Jamaica, international journalists rushed to report what many framed as impending devastation. Likewise, many observers, regionally and internationally, rushed to…