Commentary

December 9, 2025

Ruthlyn James | Jamaica’s silence on neurodevelopmental crisis is deafening

HUNDREDS OF children are punished for neurological differences their schools cannot name. In truth, they are dysregulated, unassessed, and abandoned by a system decades behind the science. That scene…
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Trinidad and Tobago’s wrong posture

It is not clear what the Trinidad and Tobago government intended to signal by reserving its position on America’s naval build-up in the southern Caribbean Sea and Washington’s implicit threat of…
ILO writes: Fewer people may be unemployed, but many remain trapped in low-productivity, informal and insecure jobs – conditions that undermine long-term growth ...
December 9, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Delusions about growth

Last week, an editorial in this paper prescribed how Jamaica could resurrect the prospect of five per cent annual GDP growth. Helpful fiscal measures and issues of social reform were put forward. This…
In this September 2025 photo, members of parliament are seen at a sitting in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Lloyd Barnett | Challenges of constitutional change

The former Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs promoted a video which depicted a decorated vehicle proceeding at good speed on a beautiful and smooth highway towards the republican terminal.…
Gleaner editorial writes: Leadership must set the tone. The Prime Minister must become Chief Policy Executor, not only Chief Visionary.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Management for growth

The question is no longer about the policy priorities for escaping Jamaica’s low-growth trap – from lowering energy costs, to establishing development corridors and transformational action in…
Trucks transport tanks east from Valencia, on August 27, 2025, after the government announced a military mobilization following the US deployment of warships off Venezuela.
December 9, 2025

Stephen Vasciannie | Analysing use of force rules

In 1945, following World War II, almost all then-existing states – numbering about 50 – agreed to the terms of the United Nations Charter, a major treaty that remains in force today for all 193 member…
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December 9, 2025

Orville Taylor | The award is for people like you

“Your future is connected to the West end.” This is the one thing on which my apocryphal high school principal and I agreed. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, to the Greater Glory of God. The West End is the…
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Questions for GG, IC

Now that Sir Patrick Allen is ready to proceed with the instruments of appointment for two critical jobs at the Integrity Commission (IC), the agency can, on its face, proceed with the important work…
December 9, 2025

Denise Eldemire-Shearer | Caring for loved ones living with dementia

Recently, dementia has been discussed in several fora. According to a Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre 2016 study, dementia affects approximately seven per cent of the Jamaican population, but this…