Commentary
December 9, 2025
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…
December 9, 2025
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…
December 9, 2025
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…
December 9, 2025
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.
December 9, 2025
Editorial | ODPEM in risky times
Unless the recommended restructuring of the government’s disaster management system was only for a change of its top leader, last week’s shake-up at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Melissa exposes the Jamaican state
Melissa, the horrendously intense category 5 hurricane that smashed through western Jamaica nearly a fortnight ago, did not simply tear up infrastructure and take lives. Although plenty of that…
December 9, 2025
Stephen Vasciannie | Shiprider agreement should safeguard Jamaica’s national self-respect
Some of the main aspects of Jamaica’s relationship with the United States of America within the Caribbean Sea are governed by the Agreement Concerning Cooperation in Suppressing Illicit Maritime Drug…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Choices have consequences
The Minister is right. Each local school board has the practical and legal responsibility to determine how and when to resume school after Melissa.The role of government is to harvest the most urgent…
December 9, 2025
Orville Taylor | John Crows to the rescue
Sunday is a day of rest for them, because the popular Jamaican folk song reports; our turkey vultures, “John Crow, say him no wuk pon Sunday.” Her logic might sound as if sucked into the eye of…