Commentary
10 Aug, 2026
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Neil Richards | New parliament building may be ideal at Caymanas
There are good reasons to re-assess and perhaps retract the decision to construct a new parliament building within the confines of National Heroes Park. Troubling predictions, related mainly to…
10 Aug, 2026
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Allen Gil | Is the world’s food system ready for a super El Niño?
A strong El Niño could make growing food harder in many parts of the world this year. This natural climate pattern brings warmer surface waters to the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which…
10 Aug, 2026
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Nicolás Perrone | Hyperglobalisation 2.0: Why AI has not slowed the world down
We are often told that the age of hyperglobalisation is over. Trade wars, industrial policy, national-security restrictions, export controls, and geopolitical rivalry all seem to point towards a more…
10 Aug, 2026
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Francesca Tavares | Cheers to ‘Miss Chin’
My favourite Jamaican food will always be made by a ‘Miss Chin’. Every Jamaican knows what I mean: the catering shop, the glass case, the alchemy no hotel buffet and no ring-lit food blogger has ever…
10 Aug, 2026
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Jamaica at 64: Are we becoming a republic or just talking about it?
Sixty-four years after the Union Jack came down at the National Stadium, Jamaica is still asking a question that ought, by now, to have a reasonably clear answer. Are we going to become a republic or…
09 Aug, 2026
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Editorial | AI and integrity of exams
When students in Denmark return to school this week after their summer recess, they will do so under a new regime governing how they can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for…
09 Aug, 2026
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Serge Letchimy | Martinique in CARICOM: From accession to action
On June 16, Martinique officially became an Associate Member of the Caribbean Community. A few weeks later, in Saint Lucia, our delegation took its seat for the first time at the Conference of Heads…
09 Aug, 2026
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Byron Blake | An independence gift for western Jamaica?
July 28, nine months after the vicious left-right uppercuts of the record-breaking Hurricane Melissa, the people of western Jamaica remain in shock.
09 Aug, 2026
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Garth Rattray | Democratic Socialism then and now (Part 2)
When the Michael Manley government introduced Democratic Socialism, the Cold War was still at its peak, and the nervous tremors of missing a nuclear holocaust by the skin of our teeth hung heavily in…