Commentary

Akira Kanehama, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) volunteer and Timol Stanberry, PE teacher, teaching a group of kindergarten students of Tarrant Primary School, to stretch.
March 26, 2026

Ruthlyn James | Jamaica’s inclusion readiness has a missing engine: the physical education teacher

Across Jamaica, we keep describing an inclusion goal while under building the one workforce that can stabilise it daily. We talk about Vision 2030, equity and access. Yet the practical reality inside…
Dean Jones, founder of Jamaica Homes
March 26, 2026

Dean Jones | Jamaica on the edge: How a distant war could hit home harder than expected

The world has seen oil shocks before. But what is unfolding now in the Middle East is not merely another spike in energy prices – it is a structural disruption with the potential to ripple through…
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson.
March 25, 2026

Editorial | Backing Justice Anderson’s idea

Jamaica would perhaps be reluctant – especially on its own – to bring a legal case against powerful countries whose greenhouse gases contributed to its recent climate-related crises. However, the…
Eric Falt, regional director of UNESCO for the Caribbean.
March 25, 2026

Eric Falt | ‘Redemption Song’: In remembrance of the slave trade

Each year on March 25, the United Nations commemorates the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This year’s theme, ‘Justice in Action’, calls…
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) takes part in a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, January 17. The head of the WTO insisted it remains relevant and
March 25, 2026

Elizabeth Morgan | WTO: 14th Ministerial Conference, Cameroon

There is so much happening related to the USA and the Trump administration that we tend to forget that work continues in international relations at the bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels. A…
Leroy Fearon, lecturer, multi-disciplinary researcher, author, geography specialist, and columnist
March 25, 2026

Leroy Fearon | From chains to systems: Slavery’s modern mutations

March 25 is not merely a date on the United Nations calendar. It is a moral checkpoint; a moment that compels us to confront one of humanity’s most brutal enterprises: the transatlantic slave trade. …
Cricket West Indies president Dr Kishore Shallow.
March 24, 2026

Editorial | Cricket West Indies rings shallow

Cricket West Indies (CWI), the administrator of the sport in the Caribbean, hasn’t as yet disclosed the decisions taken at the annual meeting of its shareholders held on Saturday.
In this 2020 photo, Cuban doctors and medical professionals are seen at the Havana airport prior to their departure to Italy to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 24, 2026

Michael Abrahams | The complexity of the Cuban doctor crisis

The recent decision by the Jamaican Government to terminate its arrangement with the Cuban Government regarding its Medical Brigade has created a furore. However, the complexity of this multifaceted…
Tiffany McLeggon writes: It appears in the ways we learn to navigate around broken systems rather than insist that they be fixed ... because we begin to question whether better is even possible.
March 24, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Don’t cry for “small retail businesses”

Then there was the day The Dunce took too long to play. In dominoes unless you want to be labelled a cheat, you’ll play quickly unless you have a legitimate problem. Any delay is considered “talking…