Commentary
March 8, 2026
Xinyu Addae-Lee | From hope to action
On February 9, Children of Shanghai was screened in partnership with Care for Children, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), and the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and…
March 8, 2026
Garth Rattray | Inhibitions to being fruitful and multiply – Part 1
Recently, there has been a lot of talk and concern about Jamaica’s falling fertility rate. Things have certainly changed. Several decades ago, we were experiencing a population boom. Our people were…
March 8, 2026
Orville Taylor | Hasta luego Cubanos
Thousands of Jamaicans are going to be affected by the end of the 50-year-old programme of assistance, whereby medical professionals from Cuba come to this country and give yeoman service. A legacy…
March 7, 2026
Editorial | Take heed to rising sea levels
The risk of rising seas gobbling up more of Jamaica may be closer than previously thought, which should further concentrate the minds of policymakers who deal with these problems. A study by…
March 7, 2026
Tony Deyal | What’s this world coming to?
I was trying to understand where we are now in March 2026. More importantly, considering what this world is coming to, where do we go from here? I was looking at a column about people and it scared me…
March 7, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Global cost of Iran war, and the Caribbean fallout
It is a mistake to believe that the war in Iran and the retaliatory actions in the Gulf are too far away to matter to the Caribbean. The fallout is already reaching the region, pushing up the costs of…
March 6, 2026
Editorial | Partnering with Africa
Last week’s announcement by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) of a two-thirds increase in its financing cap for the Caribbean – to US$5 billion over the next four years – was important.
March 6, 2026
Peter Espeut | Gold, glory and Orwell
The Christians are in Lent, the Muslims are in Ramadan, and the United States (US) is at war. The Catholic hierarchy in the US largely supported Donald Trump in the last US presidential election…
March 6, 2026
Kristen Gyles | The law that was ‘nailed to the Cross’
“He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.” A few years ago, in response to an article I wrote expressing discomfort with the concept of capital punishment, someone quoted…