Commentary
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Unravelling JPS
With markets uncertain about the company’s continued control of Jamaica’s power grid, the Government’s decision to lend Jamaica Public Service (JPS) US$150 million to help pay for the post-Melissa…
December 9, 2025
Basil Jarrett | The road to recovery must include our women
FOUR WEEKS on since the passing of Hurricane Melissa and you can rest assured that, whichever of the remaining 116 active shelters that you visit, the scene will be largely same. Among the debris,…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Do COVID-style transfers
Garnett Reid, the president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), succinctly encapsulated the argument this newspaper has been making since Hurricane Melissa devastated the western…
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | COP30 and G20 outcomes – Disappointing
ON MONDAY morning with the announcement of the death of one of Jamaica’s most outstanding reggae music pioneers, Jimmy Cliff, the temptation was to focus on his career, his achievements, including his…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Clean brigades, please
The authorities’ confirmation of an outbreak of leptospirosis is not, in the circumstances, particularly surprising. Surges in infectious and communicable diseases often happen in the aftermath of…
December 9, 2025
Norris R. McDonald | Zohran Mamdani and Gen-Z’s rebellion against US power brokers!
ZOHRAN MAMDANI, a self-declared democratic socialist, has achieved what many thought was impossible: he defeated the Democratic party’s old guards, including Andrew Cuomo, to become New York’s mayor.…
December 9, 2025
Lance Neita | Hurricane blues – Sharing perspectives of a night of terror
SO MUCH already written on the hurricane and so much more to be written on this ineffaceable part of our history. I remember thinking as I watched the Twin Towers fall in 9/11, America will never be…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | The essence of compatibility
Over in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland beyond the clouds where all politicians are friends, the talk was all about football. The Apocryphan national football team had just blown what seemed a…
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | Blessed are the sinners
In 2017, the Jamaica Yellow Pages produced a telephone directory with a cover featuring a painting depicting a dancehall session. However, a church lobby group, the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy…