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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 Rohingyas from Myanmar, are not without relevance to Jamaica and the Caribbean.  But, they are an example of what can happen when societies are destabilised - whether by conflict, natural disasters or other disruptions.

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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…
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Tony Deyal | From the calypsonians - rolling goals or holes?
Lord Melody (Fitzroy Alexander), was a Trinidadian calypsonian best known for ‘singles such as Boo Boo Man, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Shame & Scandal, Jonah and the Bake, Juanita,…
June 12, 2026

Peter Espeut | Raiding the house money
I remember clearly when the National Housing Trust (NHT) was established in 1976; I was in my 20s.   In 1975 the total national budget was roughly J$800 million, and Jamaica had an acute housing…
June 12, 2026

Patrice Quesada | What migration dialogues reveal about the Caribbean’s future
The last few weeks have been particularly rich for migration dialogues in the Caribbean. Moving between global, regional and national spaces, I’m encouraged by how they point in the same direction:…
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Editorial | NWC audit reveals a lie
There is a notable takeaway from the auditor-general’s (AuG) review of capital projects by the National Water Commission (NWC), which has thus far received little attention. Because it is…
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June 12, 2026

Leroy Fearon | Darkness on our roads, a national concern
Recently, while travelling from Trelawny to Kingston at night, I was reminded of a troubling reality that many motorists experience daily – the alarming darkness that blankets significant sections of…
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June 12, 2026

Wayne Campbell | Reimagine beyond the world we know
For many of us, the ocean is distant and far-removed from our daily realities. For too long this narrative has been normalised and we have treated the ocean as separate from us. However, the ocean is…
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June 11, 2026

  SSP Diaries |  Airlines going ‘bust’ – cause for concern?
Commercial airlines are businesses and are subject to a multitude of conditions that cause some to fail and others to thrive. It seems to me, however, that in recent times there have been an unusual…
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June 11, 2026

Editorial | Inspiration from TCI 
Last month’s jailing of former Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) premier Michael Misick and two of his ministers brought to an end a long, complex, and expensive corruption trial. The people of the TCI…