Commentary
May 27, 2026
Janiel McEwan | Sending Home [Part I]: The Lifeline
For Jamaicans abroad, sending money home has never been just about money.
In a living room in May Pen, Clarendon, one December evening not so long ago, Miss Mavis sat forward on her settee while…
May 27, 2026
Artificial Intelligence: Another critical issue of our time
At the time of writing, it is the Labour Day holiday here in Jamaica. This is also coinciding with the US’s Memorial Day, which officially honours those in that country’s military who died in their…
May 26, 2026
Editorial | Eye on modular math
By most public accounts, the pilot in Jamaica – before the full rollout next year – of the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) modular or bite-sized exam in mathematics went more than reasonably…
May 26, 2026
Gordon Robinson | Starmergeddon!
In Apocrypha, our favourite Fantasyland, Oma D’unn’s political consultancy, Oma Unsacked, was attracting clients from all over the Fantasyworld.
The latest was Herr Storm, Prime Minister of a…
May 26, 2026
Dean Jones | Hurricane season returns to the forefront as Jamaica expands financial protection
With the official Atlantic hurricane forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration out, governments, insurers and property owners across the Caribbean are again confronting a…
May 26, 2026
Michael Abrahams | The gruesome killing of Latoya Bulgin
While watching the TVJ Prime Time News on Sunday, May 17, I saw a report that covered a fatal police shooting in the community of Granville in Montego Bay. Member of Parliament (MP) for the…
May 25, 2026
Editorial | Urgent transport Green Paper
Given the capital’s perennial weekday traffic gridlock, and the increasing frequency of the phenomenon across Jamaica, Transport Minister Daryl Vaz’s promise of a revised national transportation…
May 24, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | Defending principles
It can't be good for any nation when its government habitually savages its own credibility while considering itself triumphant. Don't they think things through? Don't they listen to the…
May 25, 2026
Mark Anderson | Resilience matters : How right infrastructure can strengthen Caribbean communities on the frontline of climate change
Across the Caribbean, communities are confronting the impacts of climate change: stronger hurricanes, prolonged droughts, heavier rainfall, and increasingly unpredictable weather events.
While…