Commentary
February 3, 2026
Editorial | Demand for skills training
In Panama last week, Kamina Johnson Smith, the foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, told international investors that the island’s post-hurricane reconstruction made Jamaica the right place for…
February 3, 2026
Ree-Anna Robinson | Mental health in a polycrisis
People in Jamaica are facing several concurrent challenges, including: a high cost of living, a pending global recession, rising tensions within our region, crime and violence, as well as successive…
February 3, 2026
Gordon Robinson | Necrotic narcissism
Current activities by USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) are raising hackles everywhere. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, killings of American citizens Renee Good, just after she dropped…
February 3, 2026
AI enters Jamaican real estate, raising questions of accuracy and responsibility
Artificial intelligence tools are becoming increasingly common in real estate offices worldwide, and Jamaica is no exception. From drafting property descriptions to enhancing images and managing…
February 2, 2026
Editorial | A new Bandung?
Last week’s call by Prime Minister Andrew Holness for policy coherence and partnerships between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the face of an increasingly discordant and…
February 2, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | Facing uncomfortable truths
Leroy, a 14-year-old yout’ from the hills of Westmoreland was talked about in Parliament last week. He has been getting $2,000 a week during term time from the church his mother attends to help with…
February 2, 2026
Omar Sweeney | Planning for Jamaica’s infrastructure resilience
The passage of Hurricane Melissa last October has put Jamaica’s infrastructure resilience, especially in the built environment, front and centre. Jamaica, as a small island developing state (SIDS),…
February 2, 2026
María Rodríguez Domínguez | Beyond growth: the role of the State in reducing poverty in Mexico
The recent reduction of poverty in Mexico challenges the idea that economic growth, on its own, leads to social progress. In a regional context marked by economic slowdown and persistent inequality,…
February 2, 2026
Nand C. Bardouille | CARICOM’s inflection point
On January 30, along with a team that included Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Carla Barnett, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Terrance Drew paid an official visit to Trinidad and…