Commentary

From left: Chief executive officer at CWI, Chris Dehring, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, and President of CWI, Dr Kishore Shallow.
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Editorial | Dismantling WI cricket?

This newspaper would welcome, and indeed requests, greater clarity from Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) CEO for his seeming implication that Caribbean governments have been unreliable partners in projects and schemes to improve the financial state of the regional body.

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A JUTC bus carrying third country nationals from the US who arrived on October 13, is seen leaving Norman Manley International Airport escorted by Jamaica Constabulary Force policemen.
20 Oct, 2026 0

Michael Abrahams | Jamaica’s third-country national deportee agreement: why the secrecy and deception?

In June, the US and Jamaica signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to use Jamaica as a transit point for up to 25 third-country national (TCN) deportees every two weeks. The first set of TCN…
20 Oct, 2026 0

Gordon Robinson | Who am I?

Many people have no idea what drives their lifetime choices, attitudes and prejudices. Often it happened in childhood and quietly influenced the way they deal with fellow humans. At some point, when…
Jamone Lyle
19 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | The Jamone Lyle affair

The Jamone Lyle affair at Jamaica College (JC) has reopened an old but unresolved debate over what should be the expectation of, and limits placed on, the student athlete and, therewith, the…
Dean Jones
19 Oct, 2026 0

Dean Jones | The house that pays you back

Jamaica spent generations building bigger houses. Now it is time to build smarter ones. For decades, the Jamaican dream was measured in concrete, steel and square footage. The bigger the house, the…
19 Oct, 2026 0

Christopher Burgess | Drought resilience by fixing NWC’s finances

The recent light rains may bring marginal relief, but they should not lull us into believing Jamaica is drought-resilient. Jamaica’s water security and the National Water Commission’s (NWC’s) finances…
An aerial view of Black River, Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
19 Oct, 2026 0

Ronald Thwaites | A clear moral compass

I get it. NaRRA is the mechanism of getting around a sluggish public sector. Take on all the big projects, relegate the expensive MDAs to serve as maintenance crews. Melissa relief will get some…
A girl carries her rabbit for a pet blessing ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi in Santiago, Chile.
19 Oct, 2026 0

Ronald Siguencia | Latin America is living longer

For all of us, there comes a point in life when visiting the doctor stops being an occasional occurrence. Appointments become more frequent, medication becomes part of our daily routine, and illnesses…
Drone shot of a water purification plant
19 Oct, 2026 0

Raymond Pryce | Desalination and the water-energy-food nexus

Jamaica’s worsening water stress is a direct constraint on national economic growth and development. As of October, the National Water Commission (NWC) reported that 107 monitored supply systems were…
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Delroy Chuck.
18 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | Mr Chuck is wrong

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has it wrong. The Integrity Commission (IC) isn’t, and wasn’t, intended to be, implicitly or otherwise, the Government’s public relations agency on corruption prevention.