Commentary

In this photo people are seen trying to move concrete power pole which was blocking Lacovia main road.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | A consensus path to recover

As the magnitude of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Melissa begins to become clearer, it is obvious that Jamaica has a massive recovery project on its hands. In the west of the island, where…
Residents walk through Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Kristen Gyles | We survived the unsurvivable

One foreign news reporter described the hurricane as being ‘unsurvivable’. But here we are, almost three million strong, having survived one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record. No, not…
December 9, 2025

Tony Deyal | Bon accord, bonne aventure

When I was 16 years old my parents decided to take me with them to Tobago where my father’s drinking partner and family member had a place where there were four rooms for “rent”. We got one for free…
JLP office on Belmont Road, Kingston.
December 9, 2025

Peter Espeut | Hoping for a good breeze-blow

I monitored Melissa on-line as she passed well to the south of Kingston on Sunday night, and rejoiced that the capital was spared the worst. And then she didn’t turn north when expected, and I hoped…
This photo shows Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Sanders | Coercion in daylight: The world must outlaw arbitrary detention

The practice has an ugly name and an uglier intent: arbitrary detention in state-to-state relations means this: tyrannical regimes seize innocents to make other governments submit to their wishes. As…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness (left) and Opposition Leader Mark Golding.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Partnership for recovery

The obvious priority for the Government at this time must be to mitigate the immediate impact of the devastation of most of western Jamaica by Melissa – among the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit…
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December 9, 2025

Editorial | JUTC vs private firms

Last week’s complaint by JUTA Tours against the Government’s bus company’s inauguration of long-haul express services, reopens this newspaper’s question of three months ago about the wisdom of state…
Workmen labour to clear debris from drains along the Race Course main road in St Mary on Monday.
December 9, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | Jamaica and natural disasters – preparation should be high priority

AT THE time of writing, we are still waiting for Hurricane Melissa, now category 5, which could be the most powerful hurricane ever experienced in Jamaica since records have been kept. As many of us…
Gabriel Cabrera, president of the Venezuelan Youth Center for Democracy, gives a statement outside of the US embassy with members of the organisation holding signs against US intervention, in reference to US warships operating in the Caribbean, in Caracas,
December 9, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | Venezuela, Exxon, and God King Trump’s militarisation of greed!

Exxon’s 2026 plunge into Jamaica’s Walton Morant Basin isn’t just about oil — it is imperialism snapping at Caribbean sovereignty. Early estimates suggest that a potential yield of 406 million barrels…