Commentary
January 11, 2026
Howard Beckford | Jamaica and the politics of chaos after Hurricane Melissa
In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Jamaicans are again confronting a familiar but uncomfortable truth: disasters do not affect all groups equally. Some communities quickly regain normalcy while…
January 11, 2026
Orville Taylor | Reality cheque: Monroe doctrine
Sunday cornmeal and peas, cooked with coconut milk. No chicken from the store or corner shop. The rooster, ‘Bigga’, was sacrificed to feed us. A beautiful Dominica fowl with black, white and grey…
January 10, 2026
Editorial | Urgency of mitigating climate change
The recent recognition of Jamaican climate scientists Professor Donovan Campbell and Dr Shanecia Lester of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is commended and welcome. They contributed to…
January 10, 2026
Tony Deyal | Days of love and Bajan
I was in Barbados where my column was named, ‘Saturday’s Child’ and I got enough jokes by the people about how this “show-and-show” man could be called a “child”. My response was, “I think your wife…
January 10, 2026
Allan Alberga | Hurricane Melissa and Jamaica’s moment of reckoning
Now that the winds from Hurricane Melissa have subsided, Jamaica finds itself at a moment that demands reflection rather than routine recovery. Across the island, lives were disrupted, livelihoods…
January 9, 2026
Editorial | Bench trial review
With Chief Justice Bryan Sykes having again warned of the unlikelihood of Jamaican judges “trying” their way out of the backlog of cases in the island’s high court, it is past time that Delroy…
January 9, 2026
Peter Espeut | Are we driven by logic?
I have written here before that I wish that the science of logic would be taught in every high school in Jamaica. As a start, it should improve student performance in mathematics, which is a refined…
January 9, 2026
Kristen Gyles | What caused the blackout in Venezuela?
For months leading up to January 3, the US special forces had been rehearsing its step-by-step capture plan for the arrest of Nicolás Maduro from his home in Caracas, Venezuela. At roughly 2 a.m. in…
January 8, 2026
Editorial | Nothing settled in Venezuela
Nothing, fundamentally, has been settled in Venezuela despite America’s military assault on the country and the capture and rendition to the United States of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.…