Commentary
25 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Use finance and industrial policy to power Jamaica’s growth
Recently, both Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) have sounded a quiet alarm. Despite macroeconomic stability and strong capital buffers, credit growth has slowed – from…
25 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Former leaders right
Their intervention is unlikely to alter Donald Trump’s increasingly militaristic posture in the area. However, last week’s insistence by 10 former CARICOM leaders that the Caribbean be respected as a…
25 Oct, 2025
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Christopher Burgess | Why Melissa matters: Balancing debt with development
People in Jamaica have been preparing and bracing for Hurricane Melissa’s impact since last Monday. Trust stare us in the face; underdevelopment remains our national vulnerability.
25 Oct, 2025
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Ronald Thwaites | Basic competencies
I hold strongly that if all of our people had a firm grounding in religious or humanistic virtues and could read and write in both our languages and compute serviceably, the nation would thrive both…
25 Oct, 2025
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Lloyd Barnett | Removing monarchy and Jamaicanisation of the Constitution
The Constitution which was applied to Jamaica on our attainment of independence in 1962 still bears the symbols of colonisation and the scars of imperialism. It designates the Head of the British…
25 Oct, 2025
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Oliver Barlow | How deep ecology can change the way we see the Earth
In Antibes, a city in the South of France, a pair of orcas helplessly circle their abandoned, algae infested enclosure. The two Orcas, Wikie and Keijo, are stuck in political limbo as officials debate…
25 Oct, 2025
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Emma Woods | Learning from Costa Rica – Central America’s manufacturing maverick
Thirty years ago, Costa Rica was a resource-based economy reliant on raw exports. Today, however, it is a thriving manufacturing and innovation hub with over 90 MedTech multinationals operating within…
24 Oct, 2025
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Editorial | Hurricanes and small things
With Tropical Storm Melissa still moving ominously and slowly towards Jamaica, the question is, how badly will the island be affected by the wind and rain expected over the next few days. Jamaica…
24 Oct, 2025
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Garth Minott | Split rocks the Anglican communion
Reports in the news recently indicate that trouble is once again brewing in the Anglican Communion. This news is precipitated by a statement from the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which…