Commentary
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | Reasons for increasing concern about developments in this hemisphere
IN THIS column on August 27, concern was raised about the US military build-up in the Caribbean Sea. The US, we have been told, has declared war on cartels supplying drugs, as it had declared war on…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | JLP, Cemex must explain
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the global cement manufacturer, Cemex, are obliged to say why the company reported a more than US$200,000 payment to the ruling party then expunged the expenditure…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Old BC’s fertile mind
It’s been a while but current media talk about fertility rates stomped on The Old Ball and Chain’s last nerve. So she’s fulminating again. She was listening to a talk shop on morning radio featuring…
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | Why we must not ‘move on’ from Market Me
Two weeks ago, a report from the Integrity Commission (IC) regarding its three-year probe into allegations of procurement irregularities and conflicts of interest regarding the awarding of contracts…
December 9, 2025
Ruthlyn James | Jamaica’s silence on neurodevelopmental crisis is deafening
HUNDREDS OF children are punished for neurological differences their schools cannot name. In truth, they are dysregulated, unassessed, and abandoned by a system decades behind the science. That scene…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Trinidad and Tobago’s wrong posture
It is not clear what the Trinidad and Tobago government intended to signal by reserving its position on America’s naval build-up in the southern Caribbean Sea and Washington’s implicit threat of…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Delusions about growth
Last week, an editorial in this paper prescribed how Jamaica could resurrect the prospect of five per cent annual GDP growth. Helpful fiscal measures and issues of social reform were put forward. This…
December 9, 2025
Lloyd Barnett | Challenges of constitutional change
The former Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs promoted a video which depicted a decorated vehicle proceeding at good speed on a beautiful and smooth highway towards the republican terminal.…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Management for growth
The question is no longer about the policy priorities for escaping Jamaica’s low-growth trap – from lowering energy costs, to establishing development corridors and transformational action in…