Commentary

July 21, 2026

Editorial | CXC and AI debate
Last week’s announcement by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) that it will, from next year, phase out school-based assessments (SBA) for some subjects in its regional exams strengthens the need…
July 19, 2026

Orville Taylor | WC, ICC and IC

Until the majority of a population has a belief that an overarching structure keeps them all in check, there will always be war. Later today, the winner of the World Cup of Football will be…
July 19, 2026

Garth Rattray | How now, sea cow – Part One
Canaries were used in coal mines as early warning systems to detect toxic gases, especially the colourless and odourless, but extremely lethal, gas carbon monoxide. Because they breathe a lot faster…
July 19, 2026

Stephen Vasciannie | Abbreviated education – CSEC, GSAT, CEE, PEP, CAPE, etc.
First a note on abbreviations in the heading and a little beyond. You will notice that the items belong in the realm of education. CSEC is the shortened form for the Caribbean Secondary Examination…
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July 20, 2026

Editorial | PAAC falls short on Students’ Loan Bureau
Last week’s discussion at Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of the deepening crisis of payments arrears at the Students’ Loans Bureau (SLB) was disappointingly,…
July 20, 2026

Mickel Jackson | Let the Integrity Commission do its work
The tabling of the Integrity Commission’s Eighth Annual Report for 2025-2026 should have prompted serious national reflection on progress against corruption. Instead, much of the commentary has…
July 19, 2026

Editorial | Reinforcing investment in girls’ education
In October 2012, a 15-year-old girl boarded a bus to head back home from school in her hometown of Mingora, a city in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, north-western Pakistan, when a Taliban…
July 18, 2026

Tony Deyal | Barbados gin and cutters
When I first went to Barbados to work for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), my wife and I very quickly had two children, the young girl, Jasmine, and our son Zubin. In addition to working…
July 18, 2026

Ronald Sanders | Transparency, sovereignty and challenge of power
Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected, but the proposed terms exceed its…