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In this photo Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad- Bissessar and acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez are seen greeting each other in New York on the sidelines of the UNGA.
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Editorial | The Kamla-Delcy rapprochement

The recent meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly between Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez and Trinidad and Tobago’s Kamla Persad-Bissessar is good for their countries. It is also positive for the rest of the Caribbean, especially if it helps to reduce tension in the region and reinforces CARICOM’s promotion of the Caribbean as a zone of peace.

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Rev Neville Callam
02 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Espeut | A mighty tree has fallen

A few weeks ago, I lost a good friend. Baptist minister the Rev Dr Neville George Callam passed away on August 15 while on a visit to the United States. At his funeral last week, many said he will be…
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning displays a copy of the School-Based Assessment (SBA) Concession document during a press conference held at the Overseas Examinations Commission in St Andrew in January.
02 Oct, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Who wrote the SBA?

I have had the privilege of not only performing School-Based Assessments (SBAs) for subjects I sat at the CSEC level, but also marking SBAs for students sitting CSEC exams. In my days sitting CSEC,…
Chris Dehring, CEO of Cricket West Indies.
01 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | Don’t waste the crisis, CWI!

Chris Dehring’s recent marketing jargon-infused video report on the financial crisis facing West Indies cricket and what Cricket West Indies (CWI) is doing about it had three profound flaws. First, as…
Janiel McEwan
01 Oct, 2026 0

Janiel McEwan | How a global price becomes a local one

A woman in a Montego Bay supermarket taps her card and watches the total come back higher than she expected, not dramatically, just enough to make her check the receipt twice against a basket of…
Defence lawyers across Jamaica are withdrawing their services from the country’s criminal courts beginning Monday, escalating their dispute with the Government over mandatory minimum sentences under the Firearms Act.
01 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Champagnie | Justice demands a review of the Firearms Act

The disagreement over aspects of the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, which recently resulted in members of the Jamaican Bar Association and the Advocates Association…
Chelan Smith
01 Oct, 2026 0

Chelan Smith | The opposition is paying attention … someone else isn’t

In an article in August - “Back to Square One” - Peter Espeut asked whether the People’s National Party was bothered by the Government’s abandonment of procurement guidelines or whether it was “just…
30 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Sparrow: The King lives

In one of his later interviews, Slinger Francisco, known to the world as the Mighty Sparrow, said of calypsonians: “We are the self-appointed mouthpiece of the under-privileged.” Sparrow’s voice was…
Dean Jones
30 Sep, 2026 0

Dean Jones | Safety, justice and home

Jamaica’s latest argument over illegal firearms is taking place in courtrooms, Parliament and the legal profession, but its consequences reach much further. They reach into communities where families…
Norris R. McDonald
30 Sep, 2026 0

Norris R. McDonald | The real estate of genocide: gas, greed and Trump’s Gaza plan

Wars are not inevitable. Neither is the systematic starvation of working-class people, the destruction of sovereign nations, or mass displacement. These are not tragic accidents of history; they are…