Commentary

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Christopher Burgess | No land, no resilience

There is a risk that the opportunity presented by Hurricane Melissa to address land tenure, fragile housing, and their wider social consequences will be missed.  Jamaica Institution of Engineers’…
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Ronald Thwaites | Choices matter

So, finally, there is public admission of what we all knew from daily experience: that the government is unable to meet the cost of good education for everyone.  What a deceitful charade this has…
June 14, 2026

Editorial | Chuck, CCJ and Sir Shridath

Two statements by Delroy Chuck in Parliament last week are in need of clarification, and perhaps, with respect to the second, a correction of the record. In his contribution to the sector debates,…
June 14, 2026

Trevor Munroe | Alongside 'supporting oversight’, improve efficiency, strengthen accountability

‘Supporting oversight’ is how The Gleaner editorial of June 2, summed up former Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s remarks at a recent Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal symposium. Golding’s comments…
June 14, 2026

Danielle Archer | Jamaica’s democratic test has already begun

There are moments in a nation’s life when the air feels heavier than the headlines. Jamaica is in one of those moments now, a moment when the public can sense that something deeper than a policy…
June 14, 2026

Garth Rattray | Jamaica needs permanent emergency shelters 

We are once again in the dreaded hurricane season. It begins on June 1 and ends on November 30 each year. After the utter devastation, in parts of central and western Jamaica, wrought by Hurricane…
June 14, 2026

Orville Taylor | To be global, host must be neutral

Proud I am that the only UN body that is headquartered in a developing country is in Jamaica. It is a big deal. Other UN organs, such as the WHO and the ILO, are based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a…
June 13, 2026

Editorial | Lessons from Cox’s Bazar

It isn’t a name that’s familiar to the people of Jamaica, or the wider Caribbean –Cox’s Bazar. Cox’s Bazar is a 13 square kilometre tent city in Bangladesh. The people who live there, 1.2 million…
June 13, 2026

Ronald Sanders | Why the Commonwealth matters again

Small and medium-size states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle-income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power…