Commentary

Current West Indies cricket captain Roston Chase was recently quoted as saying, after a series of poor batting performances by the WI test team, that the real challenge for the team was the weaknesses in the infrastructure in our cricket. While...

I am a huge fan of the WhatsApp social media platform. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I get hundreds of messages daily. WhatsApp was especially helpful in maintaining stability, connectivity, and the sharing of important information during...

Three weeks before Christmas and already my family and friends are getting ready for what I will give them and, as important, what I will write for each of the weeks before Thursday, December 25. This is what the Wikipedia says is an “annual...

As we all know and painfully witnessed, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with devastating and catastrophic consequences. Anticipating the adversity in store for his country, Jamaican Prime Minister the Most...

We will agree that the passing of Melissa, a Category 5 Hurricane, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, has again brought us to a place akin to where we were during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It is a time for education and learning, particularly when...

Jamaica seems to depend on storms and hurricanes for water. Unless we experience rainfall heavy enough to cause major flooding and damage to property, we are subjected year by year to stringent water restrictions. The timing matters as well. For...

Jamaica is facing one of the most challenging periods in its modern history, with Hurricane Melissa causing damage equivalent to more than 40 per cent of GDP. The effectiveness of recovery will depend not only on funding, but on the strength of...

AS CONFLICTS rage across the world, the Caribbean continues to be counted as one of the ‘hotspots’ globally. In the Central area, the Haitian situation remains unresolved for many years and, in the South, there is the blossoming impasse between the...

YOU LEARN a lot working alongside the world’s greatest humanitarian actors during the greatest humanitarian crisis to hit modern Jamaica. One of these lessons is the importance of the careful and critical selection and coordination of the necessary...

THERE IS a quiet revolution in Jamaican homes, not loud enough to make headlines, but powerful enough to reshape a generation. It is not driven by activism, legislation, or community change. It is driven by exhaustion, economics, shifting values...

Education minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon should formally embrace, and expand, the initiative of the opposition parliamentarian, Damion Crawford, of pairing students in parishes badly hit by Hurricane Melissa with host schools and foster families in...