Given the potentially existential stresses being faced by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), it is a strategic and tactical lapse by regional leaders that they have not brought forward the first of their regular bi-annual summits. So this year’s...
“The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed” – Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD). I hope no one ever comes to me for legal advice, for I am no lawyer. I am a theologian, among other things, and can speak with some...
In recent times, I have sat three difficult professional exams, each of which required months of rigorous study. Each time, after sitting the exam, I went straight from the exam centre to a restaurant, sat down and got myself a nice big meal....
My fellow Jamaicans, at home and abroad, Happy New Year to you all. While we have collectively and individually endured many challenges, 2025 tested our strength and resolve in ways none of us could have imagined when our country was devastated by...
We give God thanks for sparing us to see 2026, and we pause to remember the lives lost to Hurricane Melissa, the third most powerful hurricane ever recorded globally, and the most destructive storm ever to strike Jamaica. In the 65 years since 1960...
My fellow Jamaicans at home and abroad, as we welcome the New Year 2026, I extend to you and your families my best wishes for peace, strength, and renewed hope. We enter this New Year with deep gratitude, thankful for the gift of life, thankful...
As we enter the new year, the world stands at a crossroads. Chaos and uncertainty surround us. Division. Violence. Climate breakdown. And systemic violations of international law. A retreat from the very principles that bind us together as a human...
If there is one development from the past year that most Jamaicans will wish is carried over to 2026 it is the dramatic decline in intentional homicides. Murders fell by 42 per cent (there were 666 homicides up to December 27), which means that,...
In Jamaica, people are often brought before the criminal courts to answer to charges against them. It is important to understand that such charges rest upon the foundation of mere allegations by others. Some allegations are so egregious that in the...
Netflix documentary The Reckoning, which traces the rise and fall of Sean ‘P-Diddy’ Combs from Harlem party promoter to billionaire music mogul, and follows the wave of abuse allegations and federal charges that ultimately led to his 2024...
Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:06 AM
In parsing the circumlocutory remarks of bosses at the investigative agencies that were involved in last weekend’s choreographed arrest of three former officials of Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), it is possible to conclude that, at some time...
Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:06 AM
We here in Jamaica spend a lot of time following the news out of the US and are quite knowledgeable about the political and economic developments there. Although Canada is a member of the Commonwealth and, like some CARICOM countries, is a realm...
Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:05 AM
Jamaica’s crime problem demands strength. We all want a justice system that strikes fear into the hearts of those who threaten our citizens. But strength without fairness becomes punishment for punishment’s sake. This is where our firearm...
If 2020 was the year thousands of Caribbean students and parents first raised the alarm about the reliability, validity, and fairness of CXC examinations, then 2025 was the year the region finally received answers. Across Barbados and CARICOM,...
The internal dynamics aside, the European Union and the United Kingdom (EU+UK) are evolving as a major participant in global leadership–as a collective rather than as a unipolar focused power structure. The United States which sat on the pinnacle...
It’s time for Part Deux of the fourteenth annual Domino Awards – memorial for the Khooky Khast of Kharacters from my wasted youth. Congratulations to the winners especially of awards named for the Dunce, a happy-go-lucky guy who allowed nothing to...
In the reconstruction after the devastation by Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s ‘building back better’ shouldn’t only be about the island’s hard infrastructure. Government institutions – whose capacity to do things has been hollowed by years of...
In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools. At the center of this transition was the rise of AI agents – AI systems that can use other software...
The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in the city of Belém, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, may go down in history for something that goes far beyond technical negotiations on emissions and international targets....
Barbados’ foreign minister, Kerrie Symmonds, has given his “superiors” – as he refers to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government – very sound advice. He has urged them to gather “behind closed doors” to thrash out a raft of divisive geo-...
When it’s New York Fashion Week, and before we stop to admire the glitz and glamour, we need to celebrate fashion and beauty’s ultimate, timeless inspiration: Nature. For centuries, designers have been inspired by the natural environment around...
This means being responsible for and responsive to each other. The redeeming national virtue of 2025 has been the generosity of spirit, that most sacred civic faculty, shown by so many Jamaicans to the needs and pain of strangers, relatives and...
In Jamaica today, children are not just being excluded at the school gates, they are being excluded in the assessment queue. A child may be fully enrolled, with fees paid yet still be functionally locked out of learning. This is not because the...
Christmas is a time for celebration. This is done through food, drink, music, dance, family gatherings, parties, church, social gatherings, occasions for frolicking, and, just simply having fun. Not to be outdone is the Christian focus on what we...
It is noted that the Jamaican and US governments have provided only scanty details of the December 11 talks in Kingston between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and senior officials of the US Department of Defense. But in the context of recent actions...
