Commentary
28 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | When Fayval speaks
While her Cabinet colleagues have hogged the show, talking about everything – from its economic impact to plans for recovery, Fayval Williams, the finance minister, has been peculiarly quiet in the…
28 Nov, 2025
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Garth Rattray | Paradoxical desocialisation by social media – Part 1
Over the years, human beings have been extremely inventive and creative in discovering, inventing, or improving / developing things that are extremely useful to us as a race. Although we…
28 Nov, 2025
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Byron Blake | COP30: A requiem for Jamaica and SIDS
With the omission of five small words, “transition away from fossil fuels”, from its final Declaration, COP30 sentenced Jamaica and other small islands and low-lying coastal states (SIDS) to an early…
28 Nov, 2025
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Orville Taylor | Frogs, plague and Melissa
Ignorance can be fatal. Panicked demagogues drew attention to a pond teeming with tadpoles. In a viral video, thousands of little black creatures wriggling and darkening the water. They were so…
27 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Case for underground power lines
Hugh Grant, the CEO of Jamaica Public Service (JPS), the light and power company, is right about the tremendous cost if the island were to run its overhead power lines underground. His solution:…
27 Nov, 2025
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Richard Amenyah | Transforming AIDS response to build resilience and hope in the Caribbean
We are in an era of overlapping crises – global financial instability, widening inequalities, and escalating climate shocks, among others, which compound the challenges faced by people living with and…
27 Nov, 2025
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Peter Espeut | No sustainability at COP 30
It seems that the only interests that went home happy after the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) that wrapped up last Saturday in…
27 Nov, 2025
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Tony Deyal | ‘Doggone it’
I was at university in Canada hanging out with some of my colleagues in one of the lounges when one of them, looking at me, shouted loudly, “Doggone it, Tony.” I was upset and made it clear, “Listen…
27 Nov, 2025
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Ronald Sanders | Cost of less than a cup of coffee could end world hunger in five years
This commentary is dedicated to Patrick Cozier of Barbados, whose probing occasioned its writing.