Commentary
12 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Bolstering local government
Kingston’s mayor, Andrew Swaby, advanced a truism with his call this week for an update of Jamaica’s small building code in the wake of Hurricane Melissa that caused widespread devastation in the…
12 Nov, 2025
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Basil Jarrett | The UN during Melissa: Behind the scenes but at the heart of the response
WE ARE now in Week Three since Hurricane Melissa tore through the left end of Jamaica, leaving the island quite literally a tale of two halves. At one end, mosquitoes, tarpaulins, dark nights and dry…
12 Nov, 2025
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SSP Diaries | Protecting our lifeline in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa
I HAVE seen death and destruction throughout my life but what has been experienced in Western Jamaica because of Hurricane Melissa cannot be described in mere words. The loss of life, the greatest of…
11 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Real-time audits warranted
The decision by the auditor general (AuG) to conduct real-time audits of foreign aid to Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa is a welcome move that need not add bureaucracy to, or delay, the…
11 Nov, 2025
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Elizabeth Morgan | Climate Change (COP30) and CARICOM
FROM STUDIES now done, Hurricane Mellissa is being assessed as the third most intense Atlantic/Caribbean hurricane when it made landfall on Jamaica’s southwest coast on Tuesday, October 28. Some…
11 Nov, 2025
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Norris R. McDonald | A storm of crises: Hurricane Melissa and IMF budget woes!
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows!” —William Shakespeare, The Tempest SHOULD JAMAICA continue to pay the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while its people starve in the wake of the…
10 Nov, 2025
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Editorial | Looking towards Belém
As Jamaicans continue to dig their way out of the massive disaster left by Hurricane Melissa, this newspaper is also paying attention to the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil. For what happens…
10 Nov, 2025
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Michael Abrahams | Why we need to follow the money
Last week, the presidents of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) and the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) wrote a letter to…
10 Nov, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | Old BC in Digihell
Bad news comes in threes as Melissa, then her aftermath, were two of the worst but now the Old Ball and Chain is outraged at Digicel. So we’ve no choice but to experience a third storm.