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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…