Commentary

Homes destroyed by Hurricane Beryl lie in Clifton, Union Island, St Vincent and the Grenadines in July 2024.
April 2, 2026

Khaled El-Enany | Small islands, big front lines

Across the Caribbean, climate change is already reshaping lives, coastlines, and futures. Small Island Developing States, which account for just one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, are…
April 2, 2026

Basil Jarrett | Can tap. But can we trust?

Growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, one of the first survival lessons you learned while traversing the bus system was to keep your wallet in your front pocket. Not the back where it was more stylish. The…
An estimated five per cent of students drop out before the end of grade nine, and up to eight per cent exit the system between grades nine and 10.
April 2, 2026

Nicola Andrews | Every child must learn…But at what cost?

The inequality of teacher-led extra lessons The phrase “Every child can learn, every child must learn” is widely recognised as a policy mantra developed and adopted by the Jamaican Ministry of…
King’s House, the official residence of the Governor General, located on Hope Road, St. Andrew.
April 1, 2026

Editorial | A bolder vision for King’s House and Heroes Circle

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness got it mostly right with his plan for a park in Kingston for older people, to be established on the acreages adjoining the governor general’s residence, King’s House.
A Palm Sunday procession at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, Jamaica.
April 1, 2026

Elizabeth Morgan | The US’s Christian hypocrisy ‘Do as I say, not as I do’

The most important observances in Christianity are in Holy Week (Easter), from Palm Sunday, when Jesus made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey; to Holy Thursday of the last supper, the…
Norris McDonald
April 1, 2026

Norris R. McDonald | Ghost budget, sick patients, health screening, IMF praise!

One of the biggest challenges faced by poor black Jamaicans is the high out-of-pocket cost of urgent medical tests. This is a burden not only on the cash-strapped poor but also on members of the…
‘Microshifting’ is a flexible scheduling approach that involves tackling job duties in short, productive bursts instead of a single nine-to-five stretch. The paid labor fits around and between non-work responsibilities and priorities. Performance is ju
April 1, 2026

Cathy Bussewitz | ‘Microshifting’ puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules

NEW YORK (AP) — Before the house is humming and her teenagers ask her to whip up breakfast or chauffeur them to school, Jen Meegan reads her company emails and revisits ideas she drafted the night…
West Indies’ Jason Holder (second left) and teammates celebrate the dismissal of Nepal’s Aarif Sheikh during the ICC T20 World Cup cricket match in Mumbai, India on February 15.
March 31, 2026

Editorial | CWI gobbledygook

Cricket West Indies (CWI) – and by extension West Indies cricket – has a problem. CWI is so addicted to obfuscation and opacity that even when it has a credible case to argue, its inclination to…
In this March 2019 photo Peace Corps Jamaica 90th group of volunteers pose for a group photograph.
March 31, 2026

Gordon Robinson | What’s good for the goose ...

On February 22, 1962, Premier Norman Washington Manley, on Jamaica’s behalf, signed a seminal agreement between Jamaica and USA. It involved the Peace Corps and provided for young American volunteers…