Commentary
December 9, 2025
Sabrina Barnes | Period poverty exists and language matters
IN RECENT conversations around access to menstrual products and healthcare, a provocative claim has surfaced: “Oh, period poverty doesn’t exist. People can buy things. Poor people boasty. Call it…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Is Haiti ready?
As midwife to Haiti’s transitional arrangement, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) should signal its position on whether the country can hold credible elections in four months time and what may be…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | A rose by any other name…
The Dunce’s behaviour at the domino table was always erratic as he marched to the beat of a different drummer. “March” might be a strong word since he always proudly answered queries as to his…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Use finance and industrial policy to power Jamaica’s growth
Recently, both Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) have sounded a quiet alarm. Despite macroeconomic stability and strong capital buffers, credit growth has slowed – from…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Former leaders right
Their intervention is unlikely to alter Donald Trump’s increasingly militaristic posture in the area. However, last week’s insistence by 10 former CARICOM leaders that the Caribbean be respected as a…
December 9, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Why Melissa matters: Balancing debt with development
People in Jamaica have been preparing and bracing for Hurricane Melissa’s impact since last Monday. Trust stare us in the face; underdevelopment remains our national vulnerability.
December 9, 2025
Ronald Thwaites | Basic competencies
I hold strongly that if all of our people had a firm grounding in religious or humanistic virtues and could read and write in both our languages and compute serviceably, the nation would thrive both…
December 9, 2025
Lloyd Barnett | Removing monarchy and Jamaicanisation of the Constitution
The Constitution which was applied to Jamaica on our attainment of independence in 1962 still bears the symbols of colonisation and the scars of imperialism. It designates the Head of the British…
December 9, 2025
Oliver Barlow | How deep ecology can change the way we see the Earth
In Antibes, a city in the South of France, a pair of orcas helplessly circle their abandoned, algae infested enclosure. The two Orcas, Wikie and Keijo, are stuck in political limbo as officials debate…