Commentary

The Daily Gleaner of November 20, 2025, ran an article entitled ‘Earth Today | Running on Empty’, which featured a photograph of the destroyed teacher’s cottage at Brompton Primary School in St Elizabeth. I lived there in the 1960s with my late...

A few weeks ago, the Consul General of The Bahamas visited Jamaica to support the hurricane relief efforts. The military team which accompanied her did something that was very eye opening. While people across western parishes were relying on...

The United States hasn’t publicly provided a detailed account of its reasoning for placing visa restrictions on Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica over the operation of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programmes. However, there is a palpable sense...

Migration is a powerful driver of progress – lifting economies, connecting cultures, and benefiting countries of origin and destination alike. Yet when migration is poorly governed or misrepresented, it can fuel hate and division, endangering the...

Every December 18, International Migrants Day invites us to reflect on the journeys of millions who leave home in search of safety, dignity, and opportunity. For Jamaica and the Caribbean, migration is more than a statistic – it is a living story,...

The truth is often like a wife who abandons her husband in hospital, a friend who does not return your calls for help, bankers who refuse you after the 243rd mortgage payment and governments who ignore promises the day after election. When the...

The plaque inside the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour has the sonnet by Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, which includes the lines: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The Statue of Liberty...

So, on December 10, Wonderland finally came to Alice as Australia banned social media for users younger than 16. The compound idiocy of the ban was underscored in a statement by Meta regional policy director Mia Garlick: “For all our users [under...

They mightn’t have cost the big sums that occasionally trigger an angry national venting. However, the latest management foozles at Parliament, including rookie bungling of procurement contracts, suggest the need for a deeper review, and probable...

Asked what he felt was the major fault line of American culture at this time, retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy named the absence of civility – defined as the practised respect – first for self (very different from self-obsession) and...

When the prime minister recently cautioned Jamaicans not to rush into building concrete roofs after Hurricane Melissa, did he offer wise advice? His point was simple: do not trade one hazard for another. To understand this deeper, we must...

With impressive speed, the Jamaican Government and its international financial partners announced a US$6.7 billion package to finance the island’s reconstruction from the destruction from Hurricane Melissa. The Category 5 storm, packing sustained...