Commentary

Representational image of a senior citizen having difficulties with technology
03 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | The crisis of a grey Jamaica

The Government’s proposed public education programme, targeting families and other unpaid caregivers of elderly Jamaicans, is a welcome and necessary initiative. People over 60 are Jamaica’s…
Quinam Bay, South Coast, Trinidad and Tobago
03 Oct, 2026 0

Tony Deyal | Siparia: The beat goes on

I was reading The World’s Best Book and found what they considered the most amazing people: the Living Man, the Tallest Man, the Animal Lover, the Shortest Man, and even a Tallest Woman, an Oldest…
A resident checks damage to buildings as she walks near charred cars, at the site of Wednesday’s Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
03 Oct, 2026 0

Ronald Sanders | Other people’s wars, Caribbean bills

The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran or the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying…
In this photo Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad- Bissessar and acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez are seen greeting each other in New York on the sidelines of the UNGA.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | The Kamla-Delcy rapprochement

The recent meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly between Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez and Trinidad and Tobago’s Kamla Persad-Bissessar is good for their countries. It is also positive for…
Rev Neville Callam
02 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Espeut | A mighty tree has fallen

A few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. Baptist minister the Rev Dr Neville George Callam passed away on August 15 while on a visit to the United States. At his funeral last week, many said he will be…
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning displays a copy of the School-Based Assessment (SBA) Concession document during a press conference held at the Overseas Examinations Commission in St Andrew in January.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Who wrote the SBA?

I have had the privilege of not only performing School-Based Assessments (SBAs) for subjects I sat at the CSEC level, but also marking SBAs for students sitting CSEC exams. In my days sitting CSEC,…
Chris Dehring, CEO of Cricket West Indies.
01 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | Don’t waste the crisis, CWI!

Chris Dehring’s recent marketing jargon-infused video report on the financial crisis facing West Indies cricket and what Cricket West Indies (CWI) is doing about it had three profound flaws. First, as…
Janiel McEwan
01 Oct, 2026 0

Janiel McEwan | How a global price becomes a local one

A woman in a Montego Bay supermarket taps her card and watches the total come back higher than she expected, not dramatically, just enough to make her check the receipt twice against a basket of…
Defence lawyers across Jamaica are withdrawing their services from the country’s criminal courts beginning Monday, escalating their dispute with the Government over mandatory minimum sentences under the Firearms Act.
01 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Champagnie | Justice demands a review of the Firearms Act

The disagreement over aspects of the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, which recently resulted in members of the Jamaican Bar Association and the Advocates Association…